Half Yearly Examination

Portion for Half Yearly Examination -English - October, 2022 (2022-2023 )

Grade 6 Reading Comprehension
Unseen Passages with MCQ

Course Book
Unit 1
Section 1- How daddy played pin-pong-Alexander Raskin
Section 2- How I taught my Grand-mother to read-Sudha Murthy
Section 3- The story of Fidgety Phillip-Heinrich Hoffman
Unit 2
Section 1-The Story of Amber Beads
Section 2-The Cherry Tree
Section 3-On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
Unit 3
Section 1-The Giant Roc
Section 3-The Ant Explorer (Poem)

Writing
Diary Writing
Informal Letter
Writing a Newspaper Report
Making a Certificate

Grammar
Parts of Speech
Subject and Predicate
Subject and Verb Agreement

Literature Text
1.Kali and the rat snake- Zai Whitaker
2. A Day’s wait-Ernest Hemingway
3. Pret in the house-Ruskin Bond
4.How the little Kite learnt to fly-Katharine Fly

Workbook

Unit 1
Unit 2, 3 –all the exercises in the workbook
ASSET based questions will be asked.
Revise all the work done in the textbooks, notebooks
Grade 7 Reading Comprehension
Unseen Passages with MCQ

Grammar
Order of Adjectives
Punctuation
Conjunctions
Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

Writing
Paragraph Writing
Poster
Speech

Literature Reader
1.When Wishes Come True
2. Mother to Son
3. The Happy Prince
4. All about a dog

Coursebook
Unit 1
Section 1- A Hero
Section 2 -The Scholarship Jacket
Section 3- The Flower-School

Unit 2
Section 1- The Quest for Eldorado
Section 2- The Diary of a Space Traveller
Section 3- Trains (Poem)

Unit 3
Section 1 -The one who survived Ada Balackjack
Section 3- The Ballad of Mulan
Workbook
Unit 1
Unit 2, 3 – all the exercises in the workbook
ASSET based questions will be asked. Revise all the work done in the
textbooks, notebook, and workbook
Grade 8 Reading Comprehension
Unseen Passages with MCQ

Grammar
Phrases and Clauses
Future continuous and future perfect
Future perfect continuous
Active and Passive Voice
 Writing

Paragraph Writing Describing a person

Email
Informal Letter
Brochure
Speech

Literature
1.Boyhood Days
2. The Secret of the Machines (Poem)
3. Father’s Help
4. A Newspaper is a Collection of Half – Injustices

Coursebook

Unit 1
Section 1 -My Big Brother
Section 2- A Most Important Person
Section 3- Somebody’s Mother
Unit 2
Section 1 -A Day in the Country
Section 2- Elephants Raid the Kitchen
Section 3- I think I Could Turn and Live with Animals (Poem)
Unit 3
Section 1 -Pocahontas
Section 3- Refugee Blues (Poem)

Workbook
Unit 1
Unit 2, 3– all the exercises in the workbook
ASSET based questions will be asked. Revise all the work done in the
textbooks, notebook, and workbook.
Grade 9 Reading Comprehension
Unseen Passages with MCQ
Grammar
Adverbs
Adjectives
Use of If not and unless
Tenses
Modals
Writing
Descriptive Paragraph Writing
Diary Entry
Story Writing
Literature
Beehive
 The Fun They Had
2. The Sound of Music
3. The Little Girl
4. A Truly Beautiful Mind
5. The Snake and the Mirror
Poem
The Road Not taken
2. Wind
3. Rain on The Roof
4. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Moments
The Lost Child
2. The adventures of Toto
3. Iswaran the Storyteller
4. In the kingdom of fools
5. The Happy Prince Workbook Unit 1, 2, 3 , 4 – all the exercises in
the workbook
ASSET based questions will be asked. Revise all the work done in the
textbooks, notebook and workbook.
Grade 10 Reading Comprehension
Unseen Passages with MCQ
Grammar
Relative Clauses
Use of Negatives for Emphasis
Metaphors
Use of Articles
Forms of Verbs
Idiomatic Expressions
Homophones
Tenses
Modals
Subject – verb concord
Reported speech
Commands and requests, Statements, Questions
Determiners
Writing
Paragraph Writing
Speech Writing
Poster
Literature
First Flight
1. A letter to God
2. Nelson Mandela - Long Walk to Freedom
3. Two Stories About Flying
4. From the Diary of Anne Frank
5. Glimpses of India
6. Mijbil the Otter
7. Madam Rides the Bus
 Poems
Dust of Snow
2. Fire and Ice
3. A tiger in the Zoo
4. How to Tell Wild Animals
5. The Ball Poem
6. Amanda!
7. The Trees
Footprints without Feet
A triumph of Surgery
2. The Thief's Story
3. The Midnight Visitor
4. A Question of Trust
5. Footprints Without Feet
6. The making of a Scientist
7. The necklace
Workbook Unit 1,2,3,4 – all the exercises in the workbook
ASSET based questions will be asked. Revise all the work done in the
textbooks, notebook and workbook. Questions will also be given
from the CBSE Question Bank.
Grade 11 Reading Comprehension
Unseen Passages with MCQ
Case Study based passage comprehension
Grammar
Editing -general usage of tenses – errors
Writing
Speech writing
Poster
Classified Advertisements
Debate
Literature
Hornbill
The Portrait of a Lady
A Photograph (Poem)
“We’re Not Afraid to Die… if we can be together
Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues
The Laburnum Top (Poem)
Snapshots
The Summer of the Beautiful White House
The Address (Prose)
Mother’s Day (Play)
Assessment of Listening Skills - 05 marks. Assessment of Speaking
Skills – 05 Marks Project Work - 10 Marks
Grade 12 Reading Comprehension
Unseen Passages with MCQ
One unseen passage to assess comprehension, interpretation and
inference. Vocabulary and inference of meaning will also be
assessed. The passage may be factual, descriptive or literary.
 One unseen case-based passage with verbal/visual inputs like
statistical data, charts etc.
Writing
Notice
Formal Invitation and reply
Informal Invitation – Letter and reply
application for a job with bio data or resume
Article writing
Report writing
Speech writing
Note making and summarizing
Literature
Flamingo
The Last Lesson
Lost Spring
Deep Water
The Rattrap
Indigo
Poets and Pancakes
The Interview
Going Places

Poems
My Mother at Sixty- six
Keeping Quiet
Vistas
The Third Level
The Tiger King
Journey to the end of the Earth
The Enemy
On the Face of It
Assessment of Listening Skills - 05 marks. Assessment of Speaking
Skills – 05 Marks Project Work - 10 Marks

Half Yearly Examination

Portion for Half Yearly Examination -English - October, 2022 (2022-2023 )
Grade 6 Reading Comprehension
Unseen Passages with MCQ
 Course Book
Unit 1
Section 1- How daddy played pin-pong-Alexander Raskin
Section 2- How I taught my Grand-mother to read-Sudha Murthy
Section 3- The story of Fidgety Phillip-Heinrich Hoffman
Unit 2
Section 1-The Story of Amber Beads
Section 2-The Cherry Tree
Section 3-On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
Unit 3
Section 1-The Giant Roc
Section 3-The Ant Explorer (Poem)

Writing
Diary Writing
Informal Letter
Writing a Newspaper Report
Making a Certificate

Grammar
Parts of Speech
Subject and Predicate
Subject and Verb Agreement

Literature Text
1.Kali and the rat snake- Zai Whitaker
2. A Day’s wait-Ernest Hemingway
3. Pret in the house-Ruskin Bond
4.How the little Kite learnt to fly-Katharine Fly

Workbook

Unit 1
Unit 2, 3 –all the exercises in the workbook
ASSET based questions will be asked.
Revise all the work done in the textbooks, notebooks

Grade 7 Reading Comprehension

Unseen Passages with MCQ

Grammar
Order of Adjectives
Punctuation
Conjunctions
 Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

Writing
Paragraph Writing
Poster
Speech

Literature Reader
1.When Wishes Come True
2. Mother to Son
3. The Happy Prince
4. All about a dog

Coursebook
Unit 1
Section 1- A Hero
Section 2 -The Scholarship Jacket
Section 3- The Flower-School

Unit 2
Section 1- The Quest for Eldorado
Section 2- The Diary of a Space Traveller
Section 3- Trains (Poem)

Unit 3
Section 1 -The one who survived Ada Balackjack
Section 3- The Ballad of Mulan
Workbook
Unit 1
Unit 2, 3 – all the exercises in the workbook
ASSET based questions will be asked. Revise all the work done in the
textbooks, notebook, and workbook
Grade 8 Reading Comprehension
Unseen Passages with MCQ

Grammar
Phrases and Clauses
Future continuous and future perfect
Future perfect continuous
Active and Passive Voice

Writing

Paragraph Writing Describing a person

Email
Informal Letter
Brochure
Speech
 Literature
1.Boyhood Days
2. The Secret of the Machines (Poem)
3. Father’s Help
4. A Newspaper is a Collection of Half – Injustices

Coursebook

Unit 1
Section 1 -My Big Brother
Section 2- A Most Important Person
Section 3- Somebody’s Mother
Unit 2
Section 1 -A Day in the Country
Section 2- Elephants Raid the Kitchen
Section 3- I think I Could Turn and Live with Animals (Poem)
Unit 3
Section 1 -Pocahontas
Section 3- Refugee Blues (Poem)

Workbook
Unit 1
Unit 2, 3– all the exercises in the workbook
ASSET based questions will be asked. Revise all the work done in the
textbooks, notebook, and workbook.
Grade 9 Reading Comprehension
Unseen Passages with MCQ
Grammar
Adverbs
Adjectives
Use of If not and unless
Tenses
Modals
Writing
Descriptive Paragraph Writing
Diary Entry
Story Writing
Literature
Beehive
The Fun They Had
2. The Sound of Music
3. The Little Girl
4. A Truly Beautiful Mind
5. The Snake and the Mirror
Poem
The Road Not taken
2. Wind
 3. Rain on The Roof
4. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Moments
The Lost Child
2. The adventures of Toto
3. Iswaran the Storyteller
4. In the kingdom of fools
5. The Happy Prince Workbook Unit 1, 2, 3 , 4 – all the exercises in
the workbook
ASSET based questions will be asked. Revise all the work done in the
textbooks, notebook and workbook.
Grade 10 Reading Comprehension
Unseen Passages with MCQ
Grammar
Relative Clauses
Use of Negatives for Emphasis
Metaphors
Use of Articles
Forms of Verbs
Idiomatic Expressions
Homophones
Tenses
Modals
Subject – verb concord
Reported speech
Commands and requests, Statements, Questions
Determiners
Writing
Paragraph Writing
Speech Writing
Poster
Literature
First Flight
1. A letter to God
2. Nelson Mandela - Long Walk to Freedom
3. Two Stories About Flying
4. From the Diary of Anne Frank
5. Glimpses of India
6. Mijbil the Otter
7. Madam Rides the Bus
Poems
Dust of Snow
2. Fire and Ice
3. A tiger in the Zoo
4. How to Tell Wild Animals
5. The Ball Poem
6. Amanda!
7. The Trees
 Footprints without Feet
A triumph of Surgery
2. The Thief's Story
3. The Midnight Visitor
4. A Question of Trust
5. Footprints Without Feet
6. The making of a Scientist
7. The necklace
Workbook Unit 1,2,3,4 – all the exercises in the workbook
ASSET based questions will be asked. Revise all the work done in the
textbooks, notebook and workbook. Questions will also be given
from the CBSE Question Bank.
Grade 11 Reading Comprehension
Unseen Passages with MCQ
Case Study based passage comprehension
Grammar
Editing -general usage of tenses – errors
Writing
Speech writing
Poster
Classified Advertisements
Debate
Literature
Hornbill
The Portrait of a Lady
A Photograph (Poem)
“We’re Not Afraid to Die… if we can be together
Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues
The Laburnum Top (Poem)
Snapshots
The Summer of the Beautiful White House
The Address (Prose)
Mother’s Day (Play)
Assessment of Listening Skills - 05 marks. Assessment of Speaking
Skills – 05 Marks Project Work - 10 Marks
Grade 12 Reading Comprehension
Unseen Passages with MCQ
One unseen passage to assess comprehension, interpretation and
inference. Vocabulary and inference of meaning will also be
assessed. The passage may be factual, descriptive or literary.
One unseen case-based passage with verbal/visual inputs like
statistical data, charts etc.
Writing
Notice
Formal Invitation and reply
Informal Invitation – Letter and reply
application for a job with bio data or resume
Article writing
Report writing
Speech writing
Note making and summarizing
Literature
Flamingo
The Last Lesson
Lost Spring
Deep Water
The Rattrap
Indigo
Poets and Pancakes
The Interview
Going Places

Poems
My Mother at Sixty- six
Keeping Quiet
Vistas
The Third Level
The Tiger King
Journey to the end of the Earth
The Enemy
On the Face of It
Assessment of Listening Skills - 05 marks. Assessment of Speaking
Skills – 05 Marks Project Work - 10 Marks