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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