The New Curriculum grade 11 English For Ethiopia Student Textbook contains 7 units, they are:
- Unit 1: Environmental Hazards
- Unit 2: Civilization
- Unit 3: Causes of Road Traffic Accidents
- Unit 4: People and Natural Resources
- Unit 5: Irrigation
- Unit 6: Global Warming
- Unit 7: Patriotism
- Unit 8: Efficiency of Health Services
- Unit 9: Indigenous Conflict Resolution
- Unit 10: Artificial Intelligence
Unit 1: Environmental Hazards
Students explore causes and impacts of environmental hazards. They practice listening for gist and details, debating causes, skimming and scanning texts, identifying explicit and implicit information, and summarizing stories. Skills include vocabulary inference, distinguishing noun types, correct punctuation, clause of concession usage, and differentiating monophthongs and diphthongs.
Unit 2: Civilization
Covers the concept of civilization and cultural development. Students learn to take notes, summarize texts, express preferences, reflect on messages, and write narratives. Grammar focuses on punctuation, relative clauses, reported speech, and present/past perfect tenses.
Unit 3: Causes of Road Traffic Accidents
Examines reasons behind traffic accidents. Students listen and summarize, apply skimming and scanning, answer comprehension questions, and infer word meanings from context. Writing skills include cause-and-effect essays, summarizing texts, and using adverbial clauses of reason and result.
Unit 4: People and Nature
Explores human interaction with the environment. Students practice summarizing, identifying main points in listening, giving presentations, discussing resource conservation, and writing expository paragraphs. Grammar covers adverbial clauses of purpose, phrasal verbs, prefixes, and suffixes.
Unit 5: Irrigation
Focuses on irrigation systems and their benefits. Students develop skills in listening for detail, synthesizing texts, predicting messages, and retelling stories. Grammar includes adverbial clauses of cause/purpose, gerunds, infinitives, participles, articles, and mood expressions.
Unit 6: Global Warming
Addresses causes and effects of global warming. Students learn to present speeches, infer meanings, and write compare-and-contrast essays. Grammar covers present/past tenses, clauses of comparison, and conditional clauses.
Unit 7: Patriotism
Discusses patriotism and national pride. Students practice predicting messages, debating, writing business letters, and creating narrative essays about heroes. Grammar focuses on the verb wish, simple past tense, and reported speech.
Unit 8: Efficiency of Health Services
Examines the role of effective health services. Students practice summarizing, interviewing, panel discussions, and argumentative writing. Grammar includes quantifiers and purpose expressions.
Unit 9: Indigenous Conflict
Explores conflict resolution in traditional contexts. Students learn summary writing, oral presentations, thesis identification, and appropriate use of adverbs and phrasal verbs.
Unit 10: Artificial Intelligence
Introduces AI concepts and their implications. Students practice note-taking, synthesizing information, public speaking, and descriptive essay writing. Grammar focuses on conditional sentences, simple present, present progressive, and adverbs.