Delhi Public School

Nacharam
Cambridge Assessment International Education –IN174
Academic Year 2022-2023

Mid Term Assessment Revision Toolkit

September 2023
 Points to
Key words
remember

Revision
Key Concepts
Worksheets

Chapters Wise Key Concepts

Sl. No. Chapter Key Concepts

Unit 1 Nature and Humans • Fiction: Contemporary

fiction,Comparison of
stories of similar
themes, Comprehension
• Non-Fiction:
Travelogue,
articles.
• Grammar: author’s
purpose,implicit-
explicit description
Writing: Story writing
on thetheme of man
and nature, writing
travel guides, article
writing.
Unit 2 Grandmother’s Song • Fiction: Comparison of
storiesof similar themes,
folktales, blurb,
• Grammar:
adjectives, powerful
verbs, figurative
language, preposition.
Unit 3 Strange Islands Fiction: Pre-twentieth century
prose, contemporary prose,
modern drama.
Non-fiction: Formal – informal
articles for different audience.
Grammar: Simple, complex
and compound sentences,
 imagery, hyperbole, irony,
narrative voice.
Punctuations: colon, semi-
colon, hyphen, parenthesis,
speech marks.
Writing: Formal – informal
article writing, script writing.

Unit 4 This is the modern world Non-fiction articles;

argumentative texts;
entertaining articles; text
summaries; contemporary
fiction.

Sample questions and worksheets

Sl. No. Chapter Study materials

Unit 1 Nature and Humans Resources-
20220907T183127Z-
001\Resources\3. Unit
resources\LS_English_8_unit_1
_resources\LS_English_8_Extra
ct_Sheets_Unit_1.pdf
Resources-
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001\Resources\3. Unit
 resources\LS_English_8_unit_1
_resources\LS_English_8_Lang
_Worksheet_1.2.docx
Resources-
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resources\LS_English_8_unit_1
_resources\LS_English_8_Work
sheet_1A.docx
Resources-
20220907T183127Z-
001\Resources\3. Unit
resources\LS_English_8_unit_1
_resources\LS_English_8_Work
sheet_1B.docx
Unit 2 Grandmother’s Song friday worksheet IA - practice
ppr.pdf
July 11.pdf
..\preposition worksheet.docx
..\reading comparisons.docx
Unit 3 Strange Islands Resources-
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001\Resources\3. Unit
resources\LS_English_8_unit_3
_resources\LS_English_8_Lang
_Worksheet_3.1.docx
Resources-
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001\Resources\3. Unit
resources\LS_English_8_unit_3
_resources\LS_English_8_Lang
_Worksheet_3.2.docx
Resources-
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001\Resources\3. Unit
resources\LS_English_8_unit_3
_resources\LS_English_8_Work
sheet_3B.docx
Unit 4 This is the modern world Resources-
20220907T183127Z-
001\Resources\3. Unit
resources\LS_English_8_unit_4
_resources\LS_English_8_Lang
_Worksheet_4.1.docx
Resources-
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001\Resources\3. Unit
resources\LS_English_8_unit_4
_resources\LS_English_8_Lang
 _Worksheet_4.2.docx
Resources-
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001\Resources\3. Unit
resources\LS_English_8_unit_4
_resources\LS_English_8_Work
sheet_4B.docx

Topic Concept Materials

Powerf https://www.youtube.com/wat
ul ch?v=-3S_4d2Fs9E
verbs

Narrati https://www.youtube.com/wat
ve ch?v=3VQpvbHwS4E
voice
Imager https://www.youtube.com/wat
y ch?v=eoNl1Ue5ZtQ

Irony https://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=ATlNyXh9myg

Blurb https://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=rhqMj5q5qag
 Connec https://www.youtube.com/wat
tives ch?v=VvYuFa8bsjs

Sample papers:
Resources-20220907T183127Z-001\Resources\4.
Tests\LS_English_8_diagnostic_check.pdf
..\..\..\..\cambridge programmes\checkpoint\sample papers\october
2020 paper 1insert.pdf
..\..\..\..\cambridge programmes\checkpoint\sample papers\october
2020 paper1.pdf
..\..\..\..\cambridge programmes\checkpoint\sample papers\october
2021 fiction insert.pdf
..\..\..\..\cambridge programmes\checkpoint\sample papers\october
2021 fiction paper.pdf
Name: ______________________________

Figurative Language Worksheet 1

Directions: Read the lines of poetry. Slashes represent line breaks. Figure out which
technique is being used: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, or personification. In the boxes,
explain how you figured out your answer. It is possible that more than one technique is
being used. If you can, explain each.

1. Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed

Which technique is being used?

__________________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?

(write a sentence explaining your answer)

2. Drip—hiss—drip—hiss fall the raindrops / on the oaken log which burns, and steams,
and smokes the ceiling beams. / Drip—hiss—the rain never stops.

Which technique is being used?

__________________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?

(write a sentence explaining your answer)

3. When the stars threw down their spears, / And water'd heaven with their tears,

Which technique is being used?

__________________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?

(write a sentence explaining your answer)

4. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,

The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,

Which technique is being used?

__________________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?

(write a sentence explaining your answer)

5. I do not care to talk to you although / Your speech evokes a thousand sympathies,

Which technique is being used?

__________________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?

(write a sentence explaining your answer)

6. The sun was shining on the sea, / Shining with all his might:

Which technique is being used?

__________________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole
How do you figure?
(write a sentence explaining your answer)

7. The leaves are little yellow fish / swimming in the river.

Which technique is being used?

__________________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?

(write a sentence explaining your answer)

8. The old clock down in the parlor / Like a sleepless mourner grieves,

Which technique is being used?

__________________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?

(write a sentence explaining your answer)

9. By the lakes that thus outspread / Their lone waters, lone and dead / Their sad waters,
sad and chilly

Which technique is being used?

__________________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?

(write a sentence explaining your answer)

10. Fame is a bee. / It has a song -- / It has a sting --

Which technique is being used?

__________________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?

(write a sentence explaining your answer)
11. He would write, but his hours are as busy / As bees in the sun,

Which technique is being used?

__________________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?

(write a sentence explaining your answer)

12. My words are little jars / For you to take and put upon a shelf.
Their shapes are quaint and beautiful, / And they have many pleasant colors and lusters

Which technique is being used?

__________________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?

(write a sentence explaining your answer)

13. All round the house is the jet-black night; / It stares through the window-pane;
It crawls in the corners, hiding from the light,

Which technique is being used?

__________________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?

(write a sentence explaining your answer)

14. Oh, never, if I live to a million, / Shall I feel such a grievous pain.

Which technique is being used?

__________________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?

(write a sentence explaining your answer)

15. But words are things, and a small drop of ink, / Falling, like dew, upon a thought
produces

Which technique is being used?

__________________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?

(write a sentence explaining your answer)
16. And then my heart with pleasure fills, / And dances with the daffodils.

Which technique is being used?

__________________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?

(write a sentence explaining your answer)

17. Sifted through the grass were daisies, / Open-mouthed, wondering, they gazed at the
sun.

Which technique is being used?

__________________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?

(write a sentence explaining your answer)

18. With processions long and winding / With the countless torches lit

Which technique is being used?

__________________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?

(write a sentence explaining your answer)

19. My brain is fire--my heart is lead! / Her soul is flint, and what am I?

Which technique is being used?

__________________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?

(write a sentence explaining your answer)

20. Carven cathedrals, on a sky

Of faintest colour, where the gothic spires fly
And sway like masts, against a shifting breeze.

Which technique is being used?

__________________________________________________________________________________
Simile, Metaphor, Personification, or Hyperbole

How do you figure?

(write a sentence explaining your answer)