Merry Christmas 🎄

Dear all

May your friend Santa come to you all the way, ringing bells, spreading cheer and may he bless you with all the wisdom, good  health, joy and success. May all your wishes come true. Enjoy the day and don't forget to share your happiness with someone who deserves it as much as you do. Merry Christmas :) 

Summary of the day (22.12.17)

Class 5 : Modals were explained and all the book exercises were discussed.

Class 6 : Introduction to Modals.

Summary of the day (20.12.17)

Class 5 : Did an RTC of 'The Green Act' and book exercises of Emphasising / Reflexive Pronouns.

Class 6 : Completed the unit 'Tinsel World'.
H. W. : Read the last extract of the unit 'Tinsel World'.

Class 7 : Did biographical sketch writing.
H. W. : Do the practice question on Biographical sketch given in the class.

Class 8 : Revision of Passives and subject - verb agreement through book questions from the chapter 'Getting ready for class 9'.

Summary of the day (19.12.17)

Class 5 : Question answers of the chapter 'The Green Act'.

Class 6 : Completed the unit 'Vacation Time'. 'Tinsel World' was introduced.
H. W. : Reading Comprehension passage practice.

Class 7 : Listening skills - We are the world.
An extract from the book 'Letters from a father to his daughter' by J. L. Nehru.
Poem Bharat Desh was read and discussed.

Class 8 : Completed Non-finites. 

Summary of the day (18.12.17)

Class 5 : Discussed section D of assignment 13. A short Revision exercise was conducted in practice notebooks.

Class 7 : Reading and explanation of the poem 'No Men Are Foreign'.

Class 8 : Non-finites' book exercises were done. 

Summary of the day (16.12.17)

Class 5 : Discussed assignment 13.

Class 6 : Reading and explanation of an Article on expectations from future, Reader book.

Class 7 : Reading, explanation and revision of the unit 'The Future World'
The unit Unity in Diversity was introduced.
H. W. : Design a magazine cover.

Class 8 : Rules and details of Active and passive voice and Non-finites were written in the notebook.
Book exercises of Active and Passive Voice were completed. 

Summary of the day (15.12.17)

Class 5 : Completed book exercises of Present Perfect Tense.
H. W. : Bring answers of assignment 13 properly solved on a sheet of paper tomorrow.

Class 6 : Progression practice.

Class 7 : Distributed checked English UT2 Answer sheets and discussed the answers and the marking scheme.
Reading and explanation of the play from the unit 'Future World'.

Class 8 : Introduction to Active and Passive Voice, transitive and intransitive sentences and worksheets based on the same. 

Summary of the day (14.12.17)

Class 5 : Completed Comparisons.
Introduction to present perfect tense.
H. W. : Worksheet 4 and question 2 of comparisons in practice book.

Class 6 : Reading and explanation of the chapter 'Its a glacier'.

Class 7 : Question answers of the chapter 'The Human Robot'.

Class 8 : Factual Description was done, with two sample questions.
H.W.: Practice question on factual description to be done in the notebook. 

Summary of the day (13.12.17)

Class 5 : Introduction to Comparisons.
H. W. : Assignment 13, to be done in answer sheets.

Class 6 : Completed the question answers of the play 'The Case of the Copied Question Papers'.

Class 7 : Completed the reading and explanation of the chapter 'The Human Robot'.

Class 8 : Article writing. 

A quick guide to the poetic Devices. Happy Reading :)

https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/251961

Summary of the day (12.12.17)

Class 5 : Reading and explanation of the chapter and discussion of the book exercises.

Class 7 : Reading and explanation of the story 'The Human Robot'.

Class 8 : Reading and explanation of the poem 'The Cold Inside' and the article 'Tolerance' along with the book exercises of the same. Listening skills activity was also conducted. 

Summary of the day (11.12.17)

Class 5 : Question answers and RTCs of the poem 'Plant A Tree' were discussed and done in the notebook.

Class 6 : Question answers of the play 'The Case of the Copied Question Papers' were discussed and done in the notebook.

Class 7 : Assignment 15 was done and revision for UT2.

Class 8 : Checked Test papers were distributed. Reading and explanation of the article by EM Foster and a general discussion on the theme of 'Tolerance'.
H. W. : Read the story 'A Swimmer's Glory'. 

Summary of the day (08.12.17)

Class 5 : Distributed checked Dictation sheets. Reading and explanation of the poem 'Plant A Tree' and did the book exercises of the same.

Class 7 : Revision and discussion of assignment 16.

Class 8 : Book exercises of the poem 'Nine Gold Medals' and Reading and explanation of the extract on Olympic Games.
H. W. : Do the book exercises of the extract read today. 

Summary of the day (07.12.17)

Class 5 : Did question-answers of the chapter 'It's Getting Hotter' and Dictation of the same chapter.

Class 6 : Reading and explanation of the play 'The Case of the Copied Question Papers'.

Class 7 : Reading of the chapter 'The Human Robot'.

Class 8 : Conducted Practice Test. 

Summary of the day (06.12.17)

Class 6 : Did question-answers of the play 'Hanuman and I'.

Class 7 : Did RTCs and question answers of the play 'Chocolates in my Dreams too'. 

Class 7's UT2 syllabus.

Literature : Stormy Adventure, Friends and Flatterers, Spider and the fly.
Reader : Achievers
Grammar : Passive Voice, Future Time Reference.
(will be asked in the form of Gap-Filling, Error Correction and Rearranging words and phrases)
Writing : Message writing and poster making.
Unseen passage. 

Summary of the day (05.12.17)

Class 5 : Sample question on Informal Letter.
H. W. : Practice question on Informal Letter.

Class 6 : Practiced Reading Comprehensions from the practice book.

Class 7 : Question answers of the play 'Chocolates in my Dreams too'.

Class 8 : Listening Comprehension on Sportsmanship and reading and explanation of the poem 'Nine Gold Medals'. 

Summary of the day (04.12.17)

Class 5 : Reading for understanding - Passages 1, 2 and 3.
Reading and explanation of the article 'Love for Trees'.

Class 6 : UT2 checked answer sheets were distributed and the paper was discussed.

Class 7 : Book exercises of the chapter 'Chocolates in my Dreams too'.

Class 8 : Reading of the extract 1 from the unit 'Sports' and discussion of the book exercises. 

Class 8 Test syllabus, to be held on 7th December 2017

Test Syllabus Class 8:

Unseen Passage: 6 marks

Literature: Bangle Sellers (2 marks)

                     The Case of the Sharp-Eyed Jeweller (2 marks)

                     Couplets (2 marks)

                      The Undeserved Reward (2 marks)

My English Reader: Nature (linked with letter writing) 

Grammar: Integrated Grammar in the form of Gap-Filling, Error Correction and Rearranging words and phrases. (8 marks)

Writing Skills: Message Writing (3 marks)

                          Bio Sketch Writing

                          Formal Letter (5 marks)

Commonwealth class children's short story writing competition

Please go through the following link and participate in the story writing competition, being conducted by the British Council.
All the best. Happy Writing.
https://schoolsonline.britishcouncil.org/about-programmes/commonwealth-class/story-writing-competition

Class 5 - Design A Pamphlet Activity

Summary of the day (01.12.17)

Class 5 : Activity 'Design a Pamphlet'.

Class 7 : Completed the reading and explanation of the play 'Chocolates in my Dreams too'.

Class 8 : Completed the question answers of 'A Bad Dream'.