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    ENGLISH SYLLABUS – CLASS 7 – STAGE 8 –

    CAMBRIDGE CHECKPOINT
    2019-2020
    TERM 1
    UNIT 1 : FIRE
    LANGUAGE FOCUS:
     Paraphrasing
     Synonyms
     Adverbs
     Present Perfect Tense
     Irregular past participles
     Connectives
    WRITING SKILLS:
     Sequencing
     Planning
     Headlines
     Informative Leaflet
    ACTIVITIES:
     Write news report about different kinds of fire.
     Design an Informative Leaflet.
    LITERATURE:
     Archimedes’ Secret Death Ray
     Cherokee myth: The First Fire
    UNIT 2 : GAMES AND SPORTS
    LANGUAGE FOCUS:
     Vocabulary Building
     Identifying Persona
     Complex Sentences
     Sequencing
     Match report
    WRITING SKILLS:
     Diary Entry
     Debate
    ACTIVITIES:
     Research and Class Discussion on why are the four suits of playing cards
    called so.
     Be the Guide: Explain the rules of your favourite sport to the class.
     Watch a TV game show to analyse the format and rules and comment on
    how the quiz reflects features of media productions.
    LITERATURE:
     The ancient game of backgammon
     Kung fu nuns
     Nadal seizes the crown for Spain
    UNIT 3 : WATER
    LANGUAGE FOCUS:
     Semi-colons
     Non-Sentences
     Synonyms
     Collective nouns
     Phrases with past participles
     Countable and Uncountable Nouns
    WRITING SKILLS:
     Describing a process
     Imaginative Descriptive Poem
     Writing concisely
    ACTIVITIES:
     Research and Compare water proverbs.
     Write Haiku Poems on Water.
    LITERATURE:
     The Sea (Poem)
     The bay (Poem)
     A drink of water
     The life of a Sri Lankan Stilt Fisherman

    UNIT 4 : THE FEAST


    LANGUAGE FOCUS:
     Deducing meaning of Vocabulary
     Paraphrasing
     Archaic Vocabulary
     Adjectival Endings
     Time adverbs and adverbial phrases

    WRITING SKILLS:
     Creating Characters
     Descriptive Magazine Article
    ACTIVITIES:
     Class Brainstorm
     Write a poem ‘Food, glorious Food’.
     Writing a play script
    LITERATURE:
     Fake Feast 1 (Extract)
     Fake Feast 2 (Extract)
     Eating out in Puducherry

    UNIT 5 : OTHER LIVES


    LANGUAGE FOCUS:
     Explaining imagery
     Semi-colons
     Prefixes and Suffixes
     Connectives
     Parallel sentence structure

    WRITING SKILLS:
     Job Advertisement
     CV Construction
     Scripting in Groups

    ACTIVITIES:
     Apply for Job
     Poems based on pictures
    LITERATURE:
     Living underground
     The life of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi
     My secret life as a teen detective

    UNIT 6 : THE RACE


    LANGUAGE FOCUS:
     Prepositions
     Synonyms
     Difficult Spellings (letter g and doubling the l)
     Homonyms
     Semi-colons
     Apart from and except for
    WRITING SKILLS:
     Advertisement
     Diary entry
     News Article
     Writing a Short Story
    ACTIVITIES:
     Be an author: Reuse Aesop’s morals
     Class Discussion: Metaphorical extensions of the idea of a race, e.g. Space
    race, competitiveness in school or the workplace, a race against time. Weave
    a story around it.
    LITERATURE:
     Extracts on Usain Bolt
     Rory’s encounter
     The race of the hare and the tortoise

    TERM 2
    UNIT 7 : TIME AND HISTORY
    LANGUAGE FOCUS:
     Imagery
     Reading a time-table
     Recognizing a Sonnet
     Time Adverbs
     Passive Form
     Parts of Speech
     Use of some, no, any, only
     Rhetorical questions
    WRITING SKILLS:
     News Report
     Summarizing
    ACTIVITIES:
     Make your own Tree Poem, describing an actual tree.
     Enact the Seven Ages
    LITERATURE:
     Finding the boy king
     The age of the tortoise
     The banyan tree (Poem)
     Friend (Poem)
     The Seven Ages (Poem)

    UNIT 8 : EXOTIC PLACES


    LANGUAGE FOCUS:
     Character Assessment
     Sentence Formation
     Punctuation
     Hyperbole
     Clichés
     Vocabulary Extension
    WRITING SKILLS:
     Instructions
     Magazine Article
    ACTIVITIES:
     That’s not how it Ends : Rewrite the Ending
     Be an Adventure Quest Character and Write a descriptive account of a place
    you visited.
    LITERATURE:
     Meeting a polar bear
     The Week of Peace (Extract)

    ADDITIONAL TOPIC: Invitation Card

    UNIT 9 : TRAVEL AND TRANSPORT


    LANGUAGE FOCUS:
     Selective Summary
     Personification
     Present Participles
     Imperatives
     Superlatives
     Clichés
    WRITING SKILLS:
     Hotel Review
     Advertising – Promoting Leaflet
     Place Description
    ACTIVITIES:
     Draw and label a map of a journey made in a text.
     Class talk on Perfect Hotel
     Compose a Short Story on a Driverless Car or other futuristic vehicle.
    LITERATURE:
     The Great Karoo
     The Google Driverless Car
     The hanging rock

    UNIT 10 : ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR


    LANGUAGE FOCUS:
     Dashes – Brackets
     Emphatic Adverbials
     Phrasal verbs with come, put and turn
     Responding to Poetry – Comparing Poems
    WRITING SKILLS:
     News Report
     Survey
     Summary
    ACTIVITIES:
     Conduct a Survey
     Poster on local animals
    LITERATURE:
     Australia’s feral Animals
     The stray dog
     Second glance at a jaguar (Poem)
     Hunting Snake (Poem)
     A racehorse called Seabiscuit
     The Yeti

    UNIT 11 : MUSIC AND DANCE


    LANGUAGE FOCUS:
     Summarising
     Paraphrasing
     Vocabulary Extension
     Explaining figurative language
    WRITING SKILLS:
     Press Statement
     Formal Letter
     Dialogue
    ACTIVITIES:
     Devise a questionnaire for a particular dance and write up the answers as
    a report.
    LITERATURE:
     Four-year-old prodigy
     Carlos Acosta
     Every Body is doing it (Poem)
     Evita

    UNIT 12 : A LOAD OF NONSENSE


    LANGUAGE FOCUS:
     Silent letter spelling and pronunciation
     Punctuation
     Future Tense Form
     Reported Speech
    WRITING SKILLS:
     Description (Process/Picture)
     Rap Poem
    ACTIVITIES:
     Illustrate your Non-Sense Composition
     Spin a Yarn
     Class Discussion : What Makes Cartoons Funny
    LITERATURE:
     Write-A-Rap Rap
     The Snitterjipe
     The Cheshire Cat (Extract)
     The Naming of Cats (Poem)

    NOTE: Short stories by Indian and Foreign Authors will be taught simultaneously.

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