UNIT SUB - TOPICS No.

of WEEKS

SPEAKING: Comparing ways of meeting and greeting people,

describing pictures/comparing ways of behaving in social situations
UNIT – 1 in different countries, role play, discussing gift giving custom.

READING: How many people greet each other around the

world/reading and answering questions/complete conversation.

LISTENING: Comparing ways of meeting and greeting people in

MEETING and different countries, checking information/ listening to situations and
GREETING responding appropriately/ listening to a radio programme and
answering questions. 1 ½ week

WRITING: Writing about meeting and greeting people/ answering

questions and writing a social guide.

VOCABULARY: Collocations/ page 11- expressions, famous,

historical gifts, giving and receiving gifts, meeting and greeting
people.

LANGUAGE FOCUS: Modals, shall, should, can, will, would, may,

might/ asking for and offering advice/ asking permission, review of
polite language.

CRITICAL THINKING: Making hypotheses, understanding formal and

informal language and when to use each, developing awareness of
cultural differences/ understanding social convention, doing a
multiple choice quiz and working out the results/ inference skills.

HOME WORK:
WEEK DAYS: Work book page 3-exercise 3, page 4 exercise-3, page
7 exercise 3 and 4.

WEEK End: To write a paragraph on the benefits of greeting people

and the different ways of greeting
Work sheet on Modals.

READING: Reading about people’s experiences at school/ reading

and answering questions/reading about DNA.
UNIT – 2
SPEAKING: Describing school experiences/ describing your family,
speaking about your family’s history.

LISTENING: Listening tp people speaking about their first days at a

new school.
1 week
WRITING: Writing about own experiences at school/ writing a
description of your family/writing a profile of a family member.
Answering questions/ report for a school magazine.
PERSONAL
IDENTITY LANGUAGE FOCUS: Present perfect – situations continuing up to
now,/ Apostrophe ‘s and s’

VOCABULARY: School subjects, sports feelings/family relationships/

date of birth, full name, were/was born, emigrate, identical twins,
remarkable, analysis, ancestor, amazed, connected with/ family
members.

CRITICAL THINKING: Listening for main ideas/ understanding

 attitude in a text, taking notes/predicting, making connections,
making inference/ Inference skills.

HOME WORK:
WEEK DAYS: Work book- page 10 exercise 1 and 2, page 13
exercise 2.
WEEK END: 1.Write about your first day at school.
2. Work sheet on vocabulary and grammar.

LITERATURE

POEM: “ Can You” A poem from “English an International

Approach.”

The content of the poem. - Speaking 1 week

Meanings of difficult words
The Rhythm - Reading
Question answers to check understanding.- Writing
Comprehension questions like True and False and Gap fill.

SPEAKING: Discussing the importance of clothes, asking and

answering questions/ speaking about accessories one wears,
comparing and discussing information/speaking about products,
giving presentations.

READING: Reading about clothes around the world, reading and

answering questions/reading and answering questions about the
ancient Egyptians, reading and answering a quiz/reading about
different products.
1 week
UNIT – 3
WRITING: Writing a description of clothes, completing
sentences/writing description of objects/writing notes for the
presentation of a product.

LISTENING: Listening to a quiz/listening to advertisements.

CRITICAL THINKING: Developing awareness of cultural differences,

finding clues in a text, giving reasons for choices/selecting and
CLOTHING organising information, explaining features of a product.
and VOCABULARY: T-shirt, shirt, sweatshirt, jacket, trousers, track suit,
ACCESSORIES bottom, jeans, shoes, trainers, sandals, pyjamas, kimono, sari,
bandana, sombero, sleeve, button, zip, sash, collar/gadgets, product
information, accessories.

LANGUAGE FOCUS: Phrasal verbs- shop for, try something on, dress
up, put on, take off, put something away, review of passives,
colours, materials.

HOME WORK:
WEEK DAYS: Work book – page 15, page 16-exercise 2 from 6-10,
page 18 exercise 3.

WEEK END: 1. You are going to sell a television. Write the features
and how you would attract people to buy it.
2. Paste pictures or draw the clothes of your liking and write why
you like them.
 READING: Reading about outdoor activities in New Zealand/reading
and answering questions, reading different types of messages,
reading and ordering information in chronological order.

SPEAKING: Speak about outdoor and indoor activities/Discuss plans

for the next few days/speaking about a school trip, giving a talk.

WRITING: Completing sentences, writing notes.

UNIT -4 LISTENING: Listening to people speaking about outdoor activities in

New Zealand, listening and matching/ listening to a series of
messages of different kinds.

CRITICAL THINKING: Scanning a text, note taking, classifying into

categories/understanding different styles of writing, following a
chronological order/ looking for patterns, organising information,
planning and giving a talk. 1 week
LANGUAGE FOCUS: Present perfect with ever/ Modals-expressing
the future/ present continuous-going to, will/shall, present simple,
future continuous/ -ing forms.

THE LAND OF VOCABULARY: outdoor, indoor, bungee jumping, paragliding,

ADVENTURE zorbing, white water rafting, sky diving, canyoning, snowboarding,
activities, dates and making plans/water sports, tree tops, survival,
tent, campfire, path, trial, wildlife, waterproof jacket, swimming
costume, trunks.

HOME WORK:
WEEK DAYS: Work book – page 21 exercise 3, page 22 exercise 3,
page 23 exercise 5 page 25 exercise 3.
WEEK END: To organise a story that has been given in a jumbled
form.
Work sheet on grammar.

POETRY AND SONG

READING: Reading and answering questions, looking for clues.
SPEAKING: Talking about the content of a poem and a song,
reciting a poem, singing a song.
WRITING: Answering questions.
LANGUAGE FOCUS: Rhyming words.
VOCABULARY: cramped, tight, hiking, tough, survive, ice berg,
wide, slide, frost, polar bear.
CRITICAL THINKING: Analysing, making inferences, memorising.

HOME WORK: To memorise the poem and to make a post card

inviting a friend for Eid.

READING: Reading about transport system around the world,

reading and answering questions/ reading and answering questions
about the history of public transport/reading about traffic signs.

SPEAKING: Playing a guessing game, describing vehicles, discussing

advantages, speaking about public transport, asking and answering
questions/discussing traffic problems.
UNIT – 5 1 week
LISTENING: Listening to account of hot air balloon flights/listening
 for gist, identifying key information/wish (that) + simple
collocations.

LANGUAGE FOCUS: Modals, past passive.

VOCABULARY: Names of different vehicles, raft, canal, lock, sail,

steam, railway. Locomotive, omnibus, parking, one way, pedestrian
GETTING crossing, traffic lights, speed bumps, cycle path, spe3ed limit.
FROM A TO B WRITING: Answering questions/making notes, writing sentences,
writing headings, writing an account of hot air balloon flights/writing
a wish list for the school.

CRITICAL THINKING: Making inferences, developing awareness of

cultural differences/making notes, identifying the main idea in a
paragraph, making a timeline/selecting information, interpreting a
plan.

HOME WORK:
WEEK DAYS: Work book page 27 exercise 2. Page 28 exercise 2,
page 29 exercise 4, page 31 exercise 2.

WEEK END: 1. To write a wish list for the school.

2. Reading passage – to read and answer questions.

SPEAKING: speaking on the phone, explaining how to get from one

point to another/comparing maps, discussing features on a map,
giving opinions/speaking about dangerous situations.

LISTENING: Listen to telephone conversations/listening and finding

a place on a map/listening to a radio report.

WRITING: Taking notes/answering questions, completing

sentences/ writing a newspaper article. 1 week

UNIT – 6 LANGUAGE FOCUS: Prepositions of place/comparative adjectives,

using much…..than (not), as…..as/past continuous.

VOCABULARY: compass, north, west, east, south, places in a

town/telephones phrases, sorry you are breaking up, sorry – what
did you say?/I didn’t quite catch that, thanks for calling, speak to
you later/ Map reading, describing locations, giving opinions, about
holiday activities/ recue vocabulary, mountain adventures.

CRITICAL THINKING: Reading maps, labelling a map/comparing and

FINDING contrasting the style of a radio report and a newspaper
YOUR WAY report/making inferences.

READING: Reading and answ2ering questions about maps/reading

an article.

HOME WORK:
WEEK DAYS: Work book – page 34 exercise 2 and 3, page 36
exercise 2
WEEK END: 1. Compare and contrast a radio report and a
newspaper report – write in 60 to 80 words.
Work sheet on Grammar.

UNIT – 6 FICTION
Reading: reading and answering questions/ looking for clues.
SPEAKING: Talking about a story/discussing the element of a story,
 retelling a story

WRITING: Answering questions.

CRITICAL THINKING: Analysing, memorising facts, retelling a story,
speculating.
LANGUAGE FOCUS: The language of story telling.
VOCABULARY: merchant, careless, fortune, to afford, courtyard, to
break into, poison, stranger, to burst out.

HOME WORK: To practice retelling the story.

READING: Reading about healthy food/reading and answering

questions, reading and understanding vocabulary/reading about
Kenya’s long distance runners and answering questions.

SPEAKING: Discussing food and diets/talking about a healthy

lifestyle/asking and answering questions.

WRITING: Answering questions, completing sentences/ writing

questions.
UNIT – 7 1 week
LANGUAGE FOCUS: Quantifiers with countable and uncountable
nouns/Adjectives and adverbs, comparative adjectives.

VOCABULARY: food, protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals,

balance, products, pulses, fat, brain, energy, dehydration, junk
food/food and nutrition.
A BALANCED
DIET LISTENING: Listening and answering questions.

CRITICAL THINKING: Comparing words in English and in the

student’s mother tongue/selecting information, interpreting a plan.

HOME WORK:
WEEK DAYS: Work book – page 39 exercise 5, page 40 exercise 2,
page 42 exercise 1.
WEEK END: 1. To write a recipe on the student’s most favourite
food item.
2. To prepare a presentation on “Healthy Lifestyles.”

LITERATURE:

Fiction – “The Hound of the Baskervilles.”

Speaking: Talking about the author, the characters and the plot of
the story. 1 week
Reading: Reading the story and answering questions to show
understanding.
Writing: To answer questions, to write about the main characters.
Language focus: Vocabulary.

READING: Reading about animals and animal characteristics/

reading and putting sentences back in the correct place/ reading an
article about the Polar bear and its habitat.

SPEAKING: Describing animals, answering questions about animals, 1 week

talking about favourite animals/describing people, discussing
UNIT – 8
 personal characteristics/asking and answering questions.

WRITING: Answering questions/ writing questions, joining

sentences, completing sentences.

VOCABULARY: to breathe, lungs, shells, feathers, to breed, scales,

LAND OF fins, gills, skin, mammal, amphibian, reptile, parts of the face,
ANIMALS physical characteristics, look like, be like, take after, ice sheet, seal,
paw, starve, shrink, fur, walrus, whale.

LANGUAGE FOCUS: So am I, So do I/relative clauses with which as

a subject pronoun.

HOME WORK:
WEEK DAYS: Work book – page 44 exercise 1, page 45 exercise 4,
page 47 exercise 4, page 49 exercise 3
WEEK END: Grammar work sheet.
Preparing a short presentation on animals.
To write about a favourite animal.

UNIT – 8 FICTION:
READING: Reading and answering questions, looking for clues.
SPEAKING: Talking about a piece of fiction/ discussing the elements
of a story.
WRITING: Answering questions.
CRITICAL THINKING: Analysing and understanding who the
narrator is.
LANGUAGE FOCUS: Understanding style and vocabulary.

SPEAKING: Discussing the ancient and modern Olympics, asking

and answering questions.
READING: Reading about olympic games, reading a quiz.
Listening: Listening and completing a summary, understanding
attitudes, listening and answering questions.
WRITING: Answering questions, note taking, completing sentences,
writing about impressions.
Language focus: Past perfect, Pronouns-everyone, anyone, no one,
everything, anything, nothing, Comparatives and superlatives of
adverbs.
Vocabulary: Olympic games vocabulary, disables, amazing, cheer, in
tears, inspire, inspiration, give up, hold/break a record, pentathlon,
discus, shot put, javelin.

Home Work: Week days – Work book page 51, exercise 2, WB

page 52-exercise -1, WB page 54 exercise 1, 2 and 3.
WEEKEND – To write about their favourite sport.