UNIT PLANNING

ACADEMIC YEAR : 2012 13

STD : VII

Month/Pe riods June Working days14 Periods= 16

Uni t no 1

Sub-unit Beginnings

Objectives Listening Students listen the poem carefully. Speaking: Students repeat the poem after teacher.

Teachers Activity The teacher reads the poem with proper intonation and rhythm. Teacher writes difficult words, phrases on the backboard.

Teaching Aids A cart showing growth of a tree from seed-sapling plant-tree ,flowers, fruits, stream, river.

Students Activity Students listen the poem carefully. They repeat the poem or read aloud after their teacher with proper intonation & rhythm.

Evaluation 1How was the tree in the beginning? 2. Give the rhyming words . 3. Guess the meaning.

1.2

All About Myself

Students listen carefully, imitate what other students say.

The teachers prepare the charts on the lines of the given sheet All About Myself.All to fill up the sheet using their own ideas.

A chart about the famous personality.(Showing, his name, skills, likes, dislikes)

Students look at the chart and try to understand the information given there.

Mention three good habits. Write three things you enjoy doing?

1.3

Back To School

Students write simple sentences. They know the use of colloquial language in conversation.

The teacher can form a group of 5 to 6 students. Make them understand the situation.

The class-room itself can be the educational aid.

They listen carefully & try to imagine the situation. They read the points given below the picture.

Where did you spend your vacation? How did you go there?

1.4

Be a Good Listener

The students understand the language. They form sentences on their own.

The teacher will either play the record or read the passage & ask questions on the passage to test their listening skill.

Cassette or record or any audio aid. A passage which is in the story form narration of some incident.

The student listen carefully what is read out to them. They answer the questions.

Complete the Sentencesa) My mother cooks......... b) The sky was clear, it will not......

1.5

Listen carefully Exercise to be done by student Warming up.

St. Know opposite words. Students know vocabulary.

The teacher asks the students to add many more words given on page no 8

A chart of opposite, some picture as on page no 9

The students write rhyming pairs & opposites.

Write two pairs of opposites. Rhyming words.

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Unit no 1.7

Sub-unit Master of a Craft

Objectives Tell the stories listening.

Teachers Activity The teacher reads the story with proper intonation, pronunciation. He writes new words & phrases on the board.

Teaching Aids The chart of singular & plural nouns. The chart of antonyms.

Students Activity The Students will listen to the story carefully. They read silently.

Evaluation Answer the questions.

July Working Days 24 Periods-26

1.8 1.9

Fifty Words

Farming sentences students read simple sentences

The teacher makes the students read the chart he tells them to write as many sentences as they remember

Any picture showing dark clouds, rain, flowers, rainbow

The students listen carefully to the loud reading. They repeat after the teacher. They answer the questions

Isnt it delightful running through the rain

1.10 & 1.11

Running through the rain

Listening read aloud the poem after the teacher. They enjoy the feeling.

Teacher reads the poem aloud with proper beat and proper beat and proper pronunciation. The teacher writes difficult words, phrases on the board. The teacher asks questions,

The class-room itself can be the educational aid.

They listen carefully & try to imagine the situation. They read the points given below the picture.

Where did you spend your vacation? How did you go there?

1.12

Speak fast, think faster

1.13

The Greatest Traveller

Preparing an article by gathering information about a bird /animal/creature.

The teachers read the lesson aloud. The lesson can be divided into2-3 nits. The teacher writes difficult words, phrases on black board. He asks simple questions to the students.

Any book where information about birds animals is given.

The students listen carefully. They guess the meanings of difficult words, They describe the animal, bird in the picture. They answer the questions. They read the lesson.

* Describe the appearance of the arctic tern? * What is special about bird?

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Unit no 1.14

Sub-unit

Objectives

Teachers Activity

Teaching Aids

Students Activity

Evaluation

Pretty paper Birds Read and complete In a Class of their own ! The students know degrees of comparison. The students guess the meanings. Reading Students enable to understand the content. The teacher reads the lesson in units he asks questions. He points out the different treatment given to the students The class-room itself The students read the lesson carefully. They answer the questions. They imagine the class room situation. What would have happened in the next test? What lesson do you learnt from this story?

Aug. Working days-26 Periods26+2

1.15 1.16

1.17

Advertisemen ts

The students should know about advertisements.

The teacher draw students attention to the headings, format: content and purpose of advertisement

Let the students answer the questions

Unit Test 1 UNIT 2 2.1 The Brave Little Kite The students enable to do conversation between two brothers / sisters when the younger of the two is learning to swim to ride a bicycle Students enable to write short notes on a topic they enable to read comics, newspapers, stories The teacher reads the poem loudly with correct intonation & pronunciation The teacher writes difficult words, phrases on blackboard. The course book itself & classroom situation for conversation. The students listen carefully to the loud reading. They repeat he line after their teacher. They answer the questions. What was the little kite afraid of? How did the kite encourage it? What are the modes of transport mentioned in the lesson?

2.3

Whats in a name?

The teacher writes difficult words on B.B. with the help of the map he shows the motioned location of the places in the lesson

Map of Nepal & Tibet, Map of Africa, Map to show exact location of the Dead Sea.

The students listen carefully, They understand the exact location of the Dead sea, Mt Everest Timbuktu

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Unit no 2.5

Sub-unit A Day of messages & surprises.

Objectives The students enable to know some idioms & proverbs. They enable to know shoot forms. They should know about SMS The students enable to learn one act play. They enable to understand conversation & dialogues.

Teachers Activity The teacher reads the lesson aloud. He asks questions he writes proverbs & idioms on B. B. He points out the language peculiarities to the students. Instead of reading the lesson aloud the teacher prepares for this play in advance. He asks the students to learn the dialogues by heart & gives them characters to enact. He presents the play to the class. Dont read lesson. The teacher success the qualities of good speaker with the class. He allows students to come out with answer. He only guides the conversation.

Teaching Aids Chart of jumbled sentences.

Students Activity The students listen carefully to the teachers loud reading. They answer the questions

Evaluation Write a note to your friend.

Sep. W.D = 19 P=20 2.9 Stone Soup

The classroom can be a stage & students the characters. They imitate the actions.

The students take part in this one act play. They watch this play. They understand the play the answer the questions

Write recipe for the stone soup?

2.10

Be a Good Speaker

Oct ober w.d= 26 P=26+2

2.15

The Fly

The students enable to know about goo conversation. They enable to know that the speech conveys feelings, emotions. They enable to write short sentences, responses. The students should enable to know some poems. They enable to know the vocabulary in the previous poems.

Charts: * To show how to speak well * How not to speak well. *how to take part in a discussion.

The students think about the qualities of a good speaker. They guess the things we should not do while taking part in a discussion, on giving speech.

* How will you prepare a speech? What will you do if you dont understand something? * How did the grain of mustard seed appear to the fly?

The teacher reads the poem aloud with proper beat. He writes difficult words, phrases on the board, he asks questions to the students.

Chart showing a loaf of bread, as a hill with fly somewhere on the ground looking up at it.

The students listen to the poem aloud with proper beat. He writes difficult words/ phrases on the board.

2.16

Map reading

Month/Per iods Nov. W.D = 10 P=10

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Teachers Activity

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Students Activity

Evaluation

First Semester Exam The students enable to learn some poems. They enable to know the poetic form and language. The teacher reads the poem aloud with proper beat. He asks questions to the students. The teacher explains the meaning of double standards The text book. There are pictures. Ask the students to find the difference and match picture to what they say. The students listen to the reading carefully. They repeat after the teacher. They guess the meanings of difficult words. * Who is the narrator of the poem? * Whom is the poem addressed to? Why were they shocked when they reached camp Five?

3.1

Double standards!

3.5 Dec. W.D.= 20 Periods-22 3.6

On Top of the World

The students enable to know about maps. They enable to see the map and give instructions. They enable to read and understand the map.

The teacher reads the lesson in Units. He writes difficult words on the board. He explains some geographical terms to the students.

Maps of charts.

They listen carefully to the loud reading of the lesson. They try to guess the meanings of difficult words

Story birds

The students enable to read thoughts. They enable to translate them into their mother tongue.

The teachers read the thoughts one by one. He explains the meanings of Difficult words. He helps the students in translation.

Any other good thought either in a chart form or picture.

The students listen carefully. They repeat after their teachers. They understand the difficult words.

Collect the good thoughts.

3.7

The Priceless Pearl

The students enable to read the story. They understand the story. They enable to guess moral of the story.

The teachers read the story. They makes the students guess the meanings of difficult words . He asks questions

Pictures of Pearl, Oyster.

The students listen carefully to the loud reading. They guess the meanings of difficult words. They answer the questions.

What did raindrops think about themselves? * What happened to the raindrop?

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Unit no 3.8

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Objectives

Teachers Activity

Teaching Aids

Students Activity

Evaluation

Jan. W.D = 24 =26+2

How Pearls Form

3.9

Nasiruddin Knows Better!

The students enable to know about pearls. They enable to know where they formed The students enable to read and enjoy lessons they enable to appreciate and enjoy jokes.

The teacher reads the lesson loudly with proper intonation and pronunciation. He write difficult words on the B.B. he asks questions. The teacher read the stories aloud. They divide the stories into three stories. The students an directly enact the stories

A chart, showing how a pearl is formed inside the oyster a chart, how cultured pearl are obtained. The classroom and the students.

The students listen carefully. They guess the meanings of difficult words. They answer the questions They listen carefully. They change the story into play form or dialogue form.

Name precious stones. *What is unique word of nature Complete the table take took taken look................

3.10

Lullaby

The students enable to learned poems. They enable to know rhyming words. They enable e to know same sounds. They appreciate the poetic language. The students enable to know the vocabulary the previous poems. They enable to read & wrote good English. They enable to frame simple sentences.

The teacher reads the poem with proper rhythm. He asks the students o repeat after him. He writes new words on the board. He asks the students if they know any other lullaby.

The chart that showing mother & baby.

The students listen carefully. They repeat after their teacher they repeat the poem with proper pronunciation and rhythm. They try to know the meaning of difficult words

*Write two pairs of rhyming words. * Write line where same word group is repeated? * What did fox say about the grapes?

4.1

Sour Grapes

The teachers read the poem. The teacher asks the students to repeat it after him. He writes the difficult words on the board. He asks the question.

The chart of Grapes & fox.

The students repeat after their teachers. They understand the meanings of difficult words. They answer the questions.

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Unit no 4.3

Sub-unit Growing friendship

Objectives . The students are able to appreciate and enjoy poems.

Teachers Activity . The teacher reads the poem with proper rhythm. He asks the students to repeat after him. He writes difficult words on the board

Teaching Aids . The picture of garden & flowers

Students Activity The students listen carefully. They read/ sing the poem after their teacher. They guess the meaning of difficult words

Evaluation Bring out the comparison between friendship and a garden of flowers. What did Himmat write in the sand?

4.4 Feb W.D-24 Periods24+2 4.5

Friends

The students enable to understand the importance of friendship they enable to write long sentences.

The teacher reads the lesson in units. He writes difficult words on the board. He asks questions.

A chart having some proverbs or sayings about friendship like A friend in need is a friend indeed

The students listen carefully to the teachers loud reading. They answer the questions. They find words that are related to emotions & feelings

Speak fast Think Faster

4.6

Innovative Times.

The teachers can take initiative and have one class bulletin

The students learnt advertisements. They knows different types of news items.

Mar. W.D = 24 =28

Unit 4.18

The Merchant of Venice

The students enable to read and write with ease. They enable to frame sentences. They enable to write dialogues.

This a very interesting play. The court scene is the high light of the story. The teacher should make students enact the play. The teacher acquaints the students with characters of the play, the place where it happened; introduce the characters in proper manner.

Copy of the Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare.

The students will enjoy the story. But if they get a chance to enact the story changed into a play, they will understand it better. They listen to the story carefully and give answers to the questions.

* Match the words with their meanings * Write the synonyms of the words.

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Unit no 4.19

Sub-unit

Objectives

Teachers Activity

Teaching Aids

Students Activity

Evaluation

I had a Dove

4.20

Be a Netizen

April W.D.-23 Periods-25

The students enable to understand the language of a poem. They enable to understand the feelings or motions the words express. The students have enable to some knowledge of modern technology. The students enable to understand the vocabulary. They enable to frame sentences.

The teacher reads the poem careful. He asks the students to read after him with proper pronunciation he writes difficult words.

A Picture of a dove.

The students listen to the poem carefully. They repeat after their teachers. They guess the meanings of the words. They refer to the glossary

The Teacher gives information about the computers. With the help of the picture or computer the teacher tells the students all important part like monitor, mouse, processor speakers etc.

Computer labs where computers Live demo is possible. Or take picture parts i.e. labelled properly.

The students look at the labelled picture of the computer. They try to remember the important parts and their working. Those who use the computers, it is easy.

* Why did the dove die of? * Why did the boy think that the dove had no reason to grieve? * List the words or phrases connected with computers or internet.

Revision : Second Semester Examination