English Language Syllabus
Fall Term 2023
Grade VII
Resource Books: Oxford English; An International Approach 2
Oxford English; An International Approach: Workbook 2
Comprehension
Unit 1: Crossing rivers
How do we build bridges?
A news article: What is taller than the Eiffel Tower?
Crossing The River
The Bridge Builder (Poem)
Unit 2: Communication
Touching (Poem)
The Elephant Who Spoke to Me
Unit 3: Feeding us all
Newspaper Report
Boggle Mill
Hunger
Unit 4: Health
A visit to the Bonesetter
The Medicine Man’s Visit
Writing:
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Composition-
Account
Story/ narrative (openings and endings)
Directed Writing-
Letter: formal/ informal
Report writing
Journal writing
Grammar:
Word class (verb, noun, adjective, adverb)
Adjectives (comparatives and superlatives)
Abstract nouns
Pairing verbs and prepositions
Modifiers (adjectives and adverbs)
Adjective nominalization
Vocabulary
Contextual meanings
Suffixes/ prefixes
Literal and non-literal verbs
Vocabulary and lexical fields
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Spring Term 2024
English Language
Resource Books: Oxford English; An International Approach 2
Oxford English; An International Approach: Workbook 2
Comprehension
Unit 5: New pastures
Arriving in London
Tent # 50 (Song of a Refugee)
Windrush Child (poem)
Unit 6: Setting the scene
Great Expectations
Mister Salagado
Unit 7: Peace
The Drop of Honey
The Paper Cranes of Peace
Unit 8: Looking back
The Disappearing Village
The Night of the Great Peacock Moth
Unit 9: Man and beast
Africa and the Cheetah
Tad and the Elephant
Writing
Composition-
Story/ narrative (characterization and plot twist)
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Descriptive writing
Directed Writing-
Writing a comparison
Short play script
Magazine article
Speech Writing
Grammar:
Dynamic and stative verbs
Prepositional phrases
Transitive and intransitive verbs
Conjunctions
Sentence functions
Sentence types
Vocabulary
Emotive and dramatic verbs
Phrasal verbs
Descriptive vocabulary
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English Literature
SOW 2023-2024
Fall Term 2023
Level : VII
Teachers Signature
Novella: War Horse by Michael Morpurgo Chapter 1-21
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Analysis of the text
Questions and answers (detailed)
Exploring the style, setting, background, plot and theme
Summary
Poetry:
‘The Twins’ by Henry S Leigh
‘Sonnet Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ by William Wordsworth
‘The City Planners’ by Margaret Atwood
‘A Total Stranger One Black Day’ by e. e. cummings
‘Tears, Idle Tears’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson
English Literature
Spring Term 2024
Playscript : The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle
Analysis of the text
Questions and answers (detailed)
Exploring the style, setting, background, plot and theme
Summary
Poetry:
‘Ozymandias’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley
‘The Man of Life Upright’ by Thomas Campion
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‘The White House’ by Claude McKay
‘If—' by Rudyard Kipling OR ‘The Solitary Reaper’ by William Wordsworth
“Hope” is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson
Figurative/ literary devices
Topic: Level: VII
1. assonance
2. consonance
3. alliteration
4. onomatopoeia
5. rhyme
6. repetition
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7. anaphora
8. end stops
9. caesura
10. enjambment
11. metaphor (implied and extended)
12. similes
13. personification
14. pathetic fallacy
15. imagery
16. hyperbole
17. oxymoron
18. paradox
19. foreshadowing
20. parallelism
21. irony
22. symbolism
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