Grade 8

Second Term:

Literature:
Novel: A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Book Two: The Golden Thread (Chapters: 15-24)

Book Three: The Track of a Storm (Chapters: 1-19)
 Vocabulary
 Meaning in context
 Literary Devices
 Implicit and Explicit questions
 Inference Questions
 Summarizing
 Constructed Response Questions

Language:
Book: Secondary English Book 3 by Sadler Hayllar:

Comprehension:
Units : 2,11,13, 15,16
 Own word questions
 Summarizing
 Implicit and explicit meanings

Grammar:
 Voices
 Narrations
 Punctuation
 Word Family
 Prefixes and Suffixes
 Conditional sentences
 Idioms and proverbs

Composition:
 Narrative writing
 Magazine article
 Newspaper report
 Grade 9
Second Term:

Literature:
Novel: To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Chapters: 13-31
 Vocabulary
 Meaning in context
 Literary Devices
 Implicit and Explicit questions
 Inference Questions
 Summarizing
 Constructed Response Questions
 Themes

Comprehension:
Book: English for Cambridge o levels book 1 by Julia Sanders
 Units:10, 11, 13, 14, 18
 Own word questions
 Summarizing
 Implicit and explicit meanings

Grammar:
 Narrations
 Voice review
 Conditional sentences
 Punctuation
 Word Family
 Figures of speech
 Show Don’t tell
 Idioms
 Proverbs

Composition:
 Pre-writing techniques
 Narrative writing
 Account writing
 Speech

Please note that English P1 (Reading) paper will not include any grammar exercises. It
will be tested in the comprehension and is taught to improve the syntax.