Karachi Public School

Tariq Road Campus

Syllabus Content Break Up: Cambridge O’ level English Language 1123
Grade IX
Mid Term 2024
First Worksheet Syllabus

Composition: Narrative writing  types of genre

 plot
 setting
 first and third person narration
 omniscient narration
 character description
 cliff hanger

Grammar: Narration
 Reporting verbs
 Changes in pronoun and verb
tenses

Idioms Usage and context

i) Literal vs. figurative Couch
potato
ii) Out of blue
iii) On good terms
iv) Like two peas in a pod
v) Once in a blue moon
vi) Out of this world
vii) Touch wood
viii) Turn over a new leave
ix) Steal the show
 x) In the dark
xi) Cry over spill milk
xii) Underdog
xiii) Raining cats and dogs
xiv) Through thick and thin
xv) Under the weather
xvi) Break the leg
xvii) Spill the beans
xviii) Pull someone’s leg
xix) Sat on the fence
xx) Kill two birds with one stone

Punctuation  Capital letters

 Comma, full stop
 colon and semi colon.
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Coordinating and subordinating  definition and use of coordinating and

conjunction subordinating conjunction
 types of subordinating clauses

Punctuations  Use of full stop

 comma, semi colon
 capital letter

Contractions  Definition
 Discuss when and where contractions
are appropriate
 Apostrophe placement

Phrasal verbs  Definition

 literal vs. figurative meaning
 context and collocation

Idioms  Usage and context

 Literal vs. figurative

Narration/ direct and indirect  Punctuation

 Reporting verbs
 Changes in pronoun and verb tenses

Comprehension  Impression questions

 Inference
 Writer’s craft

Directed writing  Cc, BCc,

Email writing  formal and informal language
Article writing  tone
 register
 Heading
 Alliteration
 Uppercase
 Paragraphs
 transitional words
 evaluate ideas
 facts and form an opinion
Tenses  Present simple, continuous and perfect
tenses
  Past simple, continuous and perfect
tenses

Revision of Narrative

Recommended books:

 English Language for Cambridge O Levels Course book (Graham Elsdon, Helen Rees-
Bidder & Helen Toner)
 Collins Cambridge IGCSE English Students Book & Workbook
 Word Smart 6th Edition
 Cambridge Grammar by Diana Hopkins
 Karachi Public School
Tariq Road Campus
English Language 1123
Final Term 2024
First Worksheet Syllabus
Composition and comprehension
Descriptive writing  Structure
 figurative language
 describing event, person and place
 adverbs and adjectives
Unseen comprehension  Word connotation
 Emotive and non-emotive language
 Writer’s opinion and attitude
 Literary devices (personification,
metaphor, symbolism, hyperbole)
Active and passive  Use of active and passive voice in
different context
 The agent (by phrase)
 structure and formation
 change of verbs
Complex and compound sentences  definition
 connectors and transition
 Use of comma, colon, and semi colon
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Conditional sentences  First and second

 Usage and structure
 Verb forms
Articles  Definition
 specific rules and exceptions
Directed Writing  ethos, pathos
Speech writing  logos
 emotive language
 Allusion
 Alliteration
 Anaphora
 Repetition
 Assonance
 Tone
 Register
Letter Writing  Subject
 Salutation
 Tone
 Register
 Valediction phrase
Summary Writing  Purpose of summary
 Understanding the text
 Identifying the main idea
 Paraphrasing and omitting details
Tag questions  Forming tag questions
 auxiliary verbs
Revision of topics from 1st worksheet Final
Term

Revision of narrative writing  types of genre

 plot
 setting
 first and third person narration
 omniscient narration
 character description
 cliff hanger

Recommended books:
 English Language for Cambridge O Levels Course book (Graham Elsdon, Helen Rees-
Bidder & Helen Toner)
 Collins Cambridge IGCSE English Students Book & Workbook
 Word Smart 6th Edition
 Cambridge Grammar by Diana Hopkins