Sentences and Clauses, Kinds of sentences,adding correct punctuation marks,Identifying sentences,Changing into questions,Constructing sentences using directions,Completing short dialogues,Affirmative and negative sentences,Changing sentence forms,Writing questions for answers,Changing statements into questions,Constructing questions,Questions tags,Questions that asks for information,Framing questions,Clauses

Nouns

Countable and uncountable nouns,Use of articles before countable and uncountable nouns,Collective nouns,Abstract nouns,Opposites of abstract nouns,Making abstract nouns from adjectives,Making abstract nouns from verbs,Noun power,Names of relations,Odd noun out,Professions,Names of subjects,Names of punctuations marks,Food-related words,Animals and their young ones,Word collocation,Manias and phobias

Article

What are articles?,Determiners,Inserting determiners,Determiners in the wrong places

Pronouns

Relative pronouns,Position of relative pronouns

Adjectives

What are adjectives?,Position of adjectives,Forming adjectives,Similes,Degrees of comparison

Verbs

What are verbs?,One verb for several words,Movement verbs,Subject-verb agreement,Finite and non-infinite verbs,Infinitives,Bare infinitives,Participles,Gerunds,Combining sentences using participles

Tenses

Perfect tenses,For and since,Answering questions using present perfect tense,Matching questions with answers,Past tense and past continuous tense in the same sentence,Answering questions using simple present/ present continuous tense,Sequence of tenses,Tenses in conditionals

Modal Auxiliaries

Use of will, shall,Use of may, might,Use of can, could,Use of will, would,Use of must, mustn’t,Use of should, ought to,Use of need not, don’t need to, used to, dare, dare to,Voice,Active voice,Passive voice,

Speech

Direct speech,Indirect speech

Adverbs

What are adverbs?,One adverb for several words

Prepositions

What are prepositions?

Conjunctions,What are conjunctions?,Kinds of conjunctions,Coordination conjunctions,Subordinating conjunctions

 

Unit 1              Travel

Section I           A Voyage to Brobdingnag- JONATHAN SWIFT

Section II         Adventures in Antarctica-SURAVI AND TISHI THOMAS

Section III        Travel-R.L. STEVENSON

Unit 2              Acts of Courage

Section I           Sound Sensations from Evelyn Glennie -DEBORAH COWLEY

Section II         The Hour of Heroism-ANTHONY SPEATH

Section III        The Hero-RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Unit 3              Scientific Temper

Section I           Mere Shadow Play-Jayant Narlikar

Section II         The Day of an American Journalist in 2889

Section III        Archimedes’s Principle

Unit 4              Shishya

Section I           The Mahatma’s Marksheets- RAMACHANDRA GUHA

Section II         Pepper, the Phantom Pet- PARO ANAND

Section III        Arithmetic- CARL SANDBURG

Unit 5              Freedom

Section I           A Mother’s Struggle- HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Section II         Princess September-SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Section III        Song of Freedom-SUBRAMANIA BHRATI

Unit 6              Women’s Empowerment

Section I           No longer Helpless-SONALI KUMAR

Section II         Queen of the Skies-MOUTUSSI ACHARYA

Section III        Woman Work-MAYA ANGELOU

Unit 7              Peace and Harmony

Section I           Tangerine the Wasp-HUGH LOFTING

Section II         The End of Living-The Beginning of Survival

Section III        A prayer for Healing

 

 After Twenty Years-O. HENRY

     The Listeners-WALTER DE LA MARE

Chasing the Rainbow-MANOJ DAS

      Geography Lesson-ZULFIKAR GHOSE

The Maths Teacher, Mr. Pink and Tipu- Satyajit Ray

      The Village Schoolmaster-OLIVER GOLDSMITH

A Tiger in the School-R.K. Narayan

 My Elder Brother-MUNSHI PREMCHAND

      Harry Pushed Her-PETER THABIT JONES

 

Cricket for the Crocodile-RUSKIN BOND

      The Louse and the Mosquito-VIKRAM SETH

The Little Prince-ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPER

8.   The Quality of Mercy-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 

 

 

How, when and where

From trade to territory

The Company establishes power

Ruling the countryside

Tribals, Dikus and the vision of a Golden age

When people rebel

1857 and after

 Colonialism and the cite

 The story of an Imperial capital.

 

 Weaver, Iron Smelters and Factory owners

 Civilising the “Native”, Educating and Nation

 Women, Caste and Reform

 The Changing World of Visual Arts

 The making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947

 India After Independence

 

CHAPTER 1: CROP PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT

CHAPTER 2: MICROORGANISMS: FRIEND AND FOE

CHAPTER 3: SYNTHETIC FIBRES AND PLATICS

CHAPTER 4: MATERIALS: METALS AND NON-METALS

CHAPTER 5: COAL AND PETROLEUM

CHAPTER 6: COMBUSTION AND FLAME

CHAPTER 7: CONSERVATION AND PLANTS AND ANIMALS

CHAPTER 8: CELL –STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS

CHAPTER 9: REPRODUCTION IN ANIMALS

CHAPTER 10: REACHING THE AGE OF ADOLESCENCE

CHAPTER 11: FORCE AND PRESSURE

CHAPTER 12: FRICTION

CHAPTER 13: SOUND

CHAPTER 14: CHEMICAL EFFECTS OF ELECTRIC CURRENT

CHAPTER 15: SOME NATURAL PHENOMENA

CHAPTER 16: LIGHT

CHAPTER 17: STARS AND THE SOLAR SYSTEM

CHAPTER 18: POLLUTION OF AIR AND WATER

Number System ,(i) Rational Numbers:

• Properties of rational numbers.(including identities). Usinggeneral form of expression to describe properties

• Consolidation of operations on rational numbers.

• Representation of rational numbers on the number line

• Between any two rational numbers there lies another rational number (Making children see that if we take two rational numbers then unlike for whole numbers, in this case you can keep finding more and more numbers that lie between them.)

• Word problem (higher logic,two operations, including ideas like area)

(ii) Powers

• Integers as exponents.

• Laws of exponents with integral powers

(iii) Squares, Square roots Cubes, Cube roots.

• Square and Square roots

• Square roots using factor method and division method for numbers containing (a) no more than total 4 digits and (b) no more than 2 decimal places Cubes and cubes roots (only factor method for numbers containing at most 3 digits)

• Estimating square roots and cube roots. Learning the process of moving nearer to the required number.

(iv) Playing with numbers

• Writing and understanding a 2 and 3 digit number in generalized form (100a + 10b + c , where a, b, c can be only digit 0-9) and engaging with various puzzles concerning this. (Like finding the missing numerals represented by alphabets in sums involving any of the four operations.) Children to solve and create problems and puzzles.

• Number puzzles and games

• Deducing the divisibility test rules of 2, 3, 5, 9, 10 for a two or three-digit number expressed in the general form.

 Algebra (20 hrs)

(i) Algebraic Expressions

• Multiplication and division of algebraic exp.(Coefficient should be integers)

• Some common errors (e.g. 2 + x ≠ 2x, 7x + y ≠ 7xy )

• Identities (a ± b)2 = a2 ± 2ab + b2, a2 – b2 = (a – b) (a + b) Factorisation (simple cases only) as examples the following types a(x + y), (x ± y)2, a2 – b2, (x + a).(x + b) Solving linear equations in one

variable in contextual problem involving multiplication an division (word problems) (avoid complex coefficient in the equations) Ratio and Proportion (25 hrs)

• Slightly advanced problems involving applications on percentages, profit & loss, overhead expenses, Discount, tax.

• Difference between simple and compound interest (compounded yearly up to 3 years or half-yearly up to 3 steps only), Arriving at the formula for compound interest through patterns and using it for simple

problems.

• Direct variation – Simple and direct word problems

• Inverse variation – Simple and direct word problems

• Time & work problems– Simple and direct word problems Geometry (40 hrs)

(i) Understanding shapes:

• Properties of quadrilaterals – Sum of angles of a quadrilateral is equal to 3600 (By verification)

• Properties of parallelogram (By verification)

(i) Opposite sides of a parallelogram are equal,

(ii) Opposite angles of a parallelogram are equal,

(iii) Diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other. [Why (iv), (v) and (vi) follow from (ii)]

(iv) Diagonals of a rectangle are equal and bisect each other.

(v) Diagonals of a rhombus bisect each other at right angles.

(vi) Diagonals of a square are equal and bisect each other at rightangles.

(ii) Representing 3-D in 2-D

• Identify and Match pictures with objects [more complicated e.g. nested, joint 2-D and 3-D shapes (not more than 2)].

• Drawing 2-D representation of 3-D objects (Continued and

extended)

• Counting vertices, edges & faces & verifying Euler’s relation for 3-D figures with flat faces (cubes, cuboids, tetrahedrons, prisms and pyramids)

(iii) Construction:

Construction of Quadrilaterals:

• Given four sides and one diagonal

• Three sides and two diagonals

• Three sides and two included angles

• Two adjacent sides and three angles

 

Mensuration (15 hrs)

(i) Area of a trapezium and a polygon.

(ii) Concept of volume, measurement of volume using a basic unit, volume of a cube, cuboid and cylinder

(iii) Volume and capacity (measurement of capacity)

(iv) Surface area of a cube, cuboid, cylinder.

Data handling (15 hrs)

(i)                  Reading bar-graphs, ungrouped data, arranging it into groups, representation of grouped data through bar-graphs, constructing and interpreting bar-graphs.

(ii)                 Simple Pie charts with reasonable data numbers

(iii) Consolidating and generalizing the notion of chance in events like tossing coins, dice etc. Relating it to chance in life events. Visual representation of frequency outcomes of repeated throws of the same kind of coins or dice. Throwing a large number of identical dice/coins together and aggregating the result of the throws to get large number of individual events. Observing the aggregating numbers over a large number of repeated events. Comparing with the data for a coin. Observing strings of throws, notion of randomness

Introduction to graphs (15 hrs)

PRELIMINARIES:

(i) Axes (Same units), Cartesian Plane

(ii) Plotting points for different kind of situations (perimeter vs length for squares, area as a function of side of a square, plotting of multiples of different numbers, simple interest vs number of years etc.)

(iii) Reading off from the graphs

• Reading of linear graphs

• Reading of distance vs time graph

 

 

 

The World-Continents And Oceans ,World-Minerals-I ,World-Minerals-II ,India-Minerals-I ,India-Minerals-II ,The World-Major Types Of Agriculture ,World-Crops-I ,World-Corps-II ,India-Sugarcane, Jowar And Bajra ,India-Food Crops (Wheat And Rice) ,India-Tea, Coffee, Coconut And Groundnut ,India-Cotton, Jute, Rubber And Tobacco ,World-Coal Fields ,World-Oil fields ,India-Soil Types ,India-Mineral Based Industries ,World-Iron And Steel Industry ,World-Textile Industry ,World-Industrial Regions ,World-Major Forest Regions ,India-Sources Of Power (Coal and Petroleum) ,India-Agro-Based Industries ,India-Major River-Valley ,India-Natural Vegetation ,India-Density Of Population-2001 ,World,Distribution Of Population ,India-Literacy 2001 ,India-Sex Ratio 2001 ,India-In 1765 ,India-In The Early 18th Century A.D. ,India-Under Lord Wellesley (1895 A.D.) ,India-Under Lord Dalhousie (1857 A.D.) ,India-Religious And Social Reform Movements ,Imperialist In Asia ,India-National Movement (1885-1945) ,India-Factories & Agencies Of The European Companies In India-1705 A.D.

 

 

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