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GRADE 7 CBSE ENGLISH PLAN No. 1 (April 3, 2019 to April 19, 2019)
TOTAL NO. OF PERIODS – 11???? PLEASE CHECK
Rashi Sachdev
Holidays: 13th April, 2019- Second Saturday, 17th April, 2019-Mahavir Jayanti
Activities:
Content Method Activity Skills Periods HW/Prep
Language Language Teacher will discuss week 11 Language skills, First 10 I sentence to be
With Ease Skills sentences for 6 days, on board analyzing skills, minutes written everyday
and ask children set of questions speaking of in the language
to enhance their grammar every notebook and to
Students will do Conjugation - period be punctuated
oral work as aloud chanting with pencil.
everyday

Vocabulary:
Adverbs: patiently, emphatically,
ferociously, extravagantly,
competitively
Adjectives: patient, emphatic,
ferocious, extravagant,
competitive
Cluster 1: Discussion Teacher will divide the extracts to Understanding
Matching the class in different groups. diction of Students will
Genre; various genres, 2 look up
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Creating The children do not need to complete list of

Magic with understand the texts. They only connotation, diction of various
words need to identify the words that genres in Writing
give the clues to the genre to be verbal and With Ease.
Empowering Reading identified. contextual
English and clues,
discussion
Put four words on the board in Matching
circles – Mystery, Ghost, genres.
Adventure and Fantasy.

Around each circled word call for

words they associate with for
each genre. The students will
make a note of these words in
their Language notebooks as
boardwork.

Get four children to read the

passage in Empowering English.
After each reading the class has
to identify the genre justified by
the choice of words in the text.
Get them to predict the meaning
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of the difficult words. Students

will work in pairs of fours and
share their findings and write
using the diction for the four
genres for the castle stood by the
sea.
Cluster 2 Reading Class will be divided into three Comprehending, 3 Children will the
Songs of the and groups; each group will work on 1 speaking, poems at home
Nightingale Discussion poem according to the template listening, and do the
given. imagination, template
- In The reasoning, worksheet in
Bazaars of The students will circulate the analyzing groups the next
Hyderabad template for other groups to add Note-making day in class.
- Palanqu or amend their findings according and
in Bearers to the template. summarizing
- Coroma
ndel Fishers Speak to the children about Reading and
Sarojini Naidu who was called the reciting,
Nightingale of India.
Identifying
She is a poet of Indian thought images and
and culture and her poems figures of
described Indian flora and fauna, speech,
Indian customs and traditions,
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festivals, men and women, Evaluating the

places, legends of kings and beauty and the
queens. skill of the poet,
She was fiercely patriotic. Her
poems are about ordinary Indian Appreciating
life which she imbues with great critically Using a
beauty and grace. set of clear
strategies,
Ask the children to read the creativity,
poem and see if they can notice thinking
the poem in a series of questions and
and answers.(The poet enquires writing
from the sellers and vendors of
the bazaar about what they are
selling which bring out the
grandeur of the traditional Indian
bazaars. It also adds a special
charm to the poem.)
Cluster 2
Songs of the Following questions to be done in
Nightingale English Literature notebook.

- In The E.E. Question 5: If it were a

Bazaars of symbol, what would the bazaar
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Hyderabad symbolize?
- Palanqu E.E. Question 8: Comment on the
in Bearers ending of this poem.
- Coroma
ndel Fishers Extra Questions to be done in
Literature Notebook:
Question: How does the bazaar
witness both sorrows and joys of
life?
Answer: The bazaar witnesses
happy moments such as wedding
when the bazaar is crowded with
people buying garlands, jewellery.
The bazaar witnesses occasions of
sadness like death when kings
and soldiers die and the flower
girls are seen weaving sheets of
white flowers to be used for the
dead people’s shrouds.

Question: What does the words

‘chessman and ivory dice’
suggest?
Answer: The words ‘chessman
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and ivory dice’ suggest the Indian

fascination for chess.

Palanquin Bearers:
Ask the children if they have seen
palanquins (Palki in hindi) in old
movies.
Cluster 2 Why are there no palanquins
Songs of the these days?
Nightingale Speak about manual labour in
transporting people.
- In The Brides, old and infirm and kings
Bazaars of and queens travel in palanquins.
Hyderabad Four able bodied men or
- Palanqu palanquin bearers sang songs as
in Bearers they jogged rhythmically with
- Coroma their burden.
ndel Fishers Ask.
Tell the children to read the
poem and ask them to pick out
word clusters, rhyming words,
imagery, poetic devices – simile
and repetition, sensory images.
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Discuss all the question and do

the following questions in
literature notebook:

E.E Question 6. Quote the words

to show that there are images of
water, fire, air or earth in this
poem.( template)

E.E. Question 7. Are the images

happy or sad ones, or both?
Explain.
Extra Questions to be done in
literature notebook:
Question: How does the poet
describe the bride in this poem?
Answer: The poet has given a
vivid description of the bride. She
states that the bride is like a star,
a bird, the laughter, the tear, the
pearl etc. By using such similes,
the poet intends to get across
that the bride is very beautiful,
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fragile and precious, that is why

she needs to be handled with
care.
Add Q 4
Question: What contradiction is in
the poem? Why has the poet used
it?
Answer: The contradiction is
when the poet describes the bride
‘as she floats like a laugh’ and
then she says ‘falls like a tear’. It
is a deliberate description
because the bride is in tears as
she is separated from her family
on the other hand she is happy
about commencing a new life.

Coromandel Fishers:
Ask the children what they have
learnt from the poem.
 Respect people who do
their work happily
 Realizes the value of unity
and strength
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 Develops work attitude

 The poem deals with the
dreams, determination and
hard work of the fishermen
and their urge to explore
the sea.
Discuss all the questions and do
the following question in
literature notebook:
E.E. Question 5. How are different
parts of Nature personified in this
poem?
E.E. Question 6. How does Naidu
show brotherhood among men?
E.E. Question 8. ‘He who holds
the storm by the hair, will hide in
his breast our lives.’ Who is ‘he’?

New Reading Teacher will discuss and solve Comprehension 2 Students will
Pathways and comprehension questions in skills, speaking, read and come
– Unit 1 – Discussion class. writing, prepared with
Section 1 discussion and the unseen
The One Who language skills comprehension
Survived - ( 1 prose from EE – The Great analysis ( hw. to go a day
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Ada Blackjack Chess challenge ) before)

Cluster 3 Group Teacher will give one description Comprehension 3

Alien Speak Discussion to each of the 3 groups. skills, speaking,
;The Simple Children will work on the writing,
and the following questions in their discussion and
Strange; respective groups: language skills
Connotations a) Are the facts the same or analysis
different?
Empowering b) In what ways are the words
English used differently.
Group c) Different descriptions
Discussion create different feelings?
d) Influence of words on our
attitude.

Denotation: Dictionary meaning

of the word which is the primary Imagination,
and literal meaning.
Language of
Connotation: Meaning suggested description,
Discussion by words or expressions.
to elicit Contextual meaning. Using language
response resourcefully in
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from Each group will write a favourable a limited

children description on the following context
subjects using the vocabulary on
page 70 of EE and WWE:
- A seaside resort
- An old building
- A film Star

Once written, the groups will

exchange the description and
without changing the facts the
groups will replace the favourable
Cluster 3 words with neutral and hostile.
Alien Speak
;The Simple Teacher can help the students
and the with the vocabulary given in the
Strange; manual Page 37 &38
Connotations
Teacher will divide the class into
Empowering 2 groups.
English One group will read the
description of the Alien and the
other group will read the
description of the ordinary
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people and both the groups mark

the word clusters.

Once the reading is done

following questions will be
discussed among group 1
children:

-Who is ordering and who is the

waiter?
-Who is being described?
-Is it a human being?

Ask for the guesswork of the

words attenuated, retracted,
extended, exasperation from the Listening, How would an
descriptions. speaking, alien describe
understanding bungee jumping,
Group 2 will discuss the following language skills, television and a
questions: framing sandwich?
sentences
-Where is the man seated?
-What sort of character do you
think he is and why?
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Task (EE page 27)

Cluster 3 The two groups take one picture
Alien Speak each out of the four and attempt Let them read
;The Simple descriptions of their own. and describe an
and the object or a
Strange; Get children to describe objects person based on
Connotations without using certain words their reading of
example: describe ice cream the description.
Empowering without using words ‘cold’ and Secondly, let
English ‘ice’. them describe a
Describe a car without using place (vegetable
words ‘wheels’ and ‘petrol’ and market,
so on. shopping mall,
restaurant,
Read the demonstration of the school) or an
alien description of television to occupation
the class. Discuss which part of (driver, doctor,
the TV are being described (life cook, and
forms = humans; staring = teacher).
watching; magical lighted frame =
screen; shrunk men and women
moving around = images of
people in the TV; lot of noise =
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audio; they = people watching TV;

kill one set of life forms =
changing the channels; create
more = channel changed; moving
tentacles = fingers; board with
bumps = remote control unit)

1 will be given to students as a

sample and 2 will be given for
practice (1 CW and 1 HW)
SAMPLE (to be done in English
Language Notebook with pencil)
Describe a sulking teenager from
an alien’s point of view: I was
walking on a ground with weird,
green spikes on it. They were
tickling my bare feet. As I skipped
my way through, I saw a very
stick like live figure. She had
brown hair and wore a very
colourful skin on the top. She was
throwing tiny, balls of water from
her eyes. She then took a magical
box in her hands and started
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pressing some buttons with her

tentacles. She put the device on
her ear and started blabbering,
whilst she spoke her audio kept
getting higher and louder. Until
when she screeched loudly and
threw the magical box. She sat on
the wooden, four legged board
and started throwing lots of
water that dripped down her
face. After a while she just
became silent and sat there like a
rock. I got boarded and left her
behind.
New Teacher will discuss and solve Comprehension Students will
Pathways Group comprehension questions in skills, speaking, read and come
– Unit 1 – Discussion class. writing, 2 prepared with
Section 3 discussion and the unseen
Trains- language skills poetry.
Humayun analysis
Kabir

Always highlight the writing skills