ACADEMIC SCHEDULE – 2014-2015
CLASS - IV
ENGLISH
S.No
1.
2.
3.
4.
Cycle
Date/Month
19th March
– 7th April
8th April –
30th April
1st May –
17th May
2nd July –
19th July
Inst.
days
15
15
14
15
Topic
LITERATURE:
Unit 1-The Brave Pizza
Delivery Boy
Activity
Activity page- Students will draw the picture of a pizza delivery boy
in their literature copy
New words, word meanings, opposites, sentences, RTC, Q/ A
GRAMMAR
L 2-The Sentence
Draw any picture in grammar copy and write few sentences on it.
CREATIVE WRITING
Write a paragraph on ‘My Teacher’
LITERATURE:
Unit 2- The Hummingbird
Who Chewed Bubblegum
Activity- Students will draw the picture of a humming bird.
New words, word meanings, opposites, sentences, RTC, Q/ A
LISTENING AND
SPEAKING –DIALOGUE
Unit 1 – On Your Plate
Listening exercises through CD.
Speaking activity at pg 6.
GRAMMAR:
L-3 Kinds of Sentences
L 6-Subject and Predicate
L 7, 8-Nouns
Students will take any five English albhabets and write down the
various types of nouns beginning with that alphabet and illustrate
them with pictures.
CREATIVE WRITING
Write a paragraph on ‘A School Picnic’.
LITERATURE:
Unit – 3- I Want To Stay
Awake
Activity- Students will draw the picture of a cup filled with tea.
GRAMMAR
L-9-13-Nouns
(Collective, Countable/
Uncountable, Singular/
Plural, Gender)
Notebook activity :
Illustrations for each type of noun using pictures.
LITERATURE:
Unit 4–Tess Buys a Miracle
Activity :Students will write about their belief in miracles and
narrate instances which make them feel so.
New words, word meanings, opposites, sentences, RTC, Q/ A
LISTENING AND
SPEAKING –DIALOGUE
Unit 2 ; Friends Next Door
LITERATURE READER
Lesson 2 – Presents For
Mother
Listening exercises through CD.
Speaking activity at pg 12.
Activity – Describe the role all the sisters in the story briefly showing
their character.
Students will make a card for their mother and write why their
mother is special to them.
5.
20th July
– 8th Aug
15
GRAMMAR
L 14-Adjectives
L 15-Degrees of Adjectives
L 16-Articles (A, An, The)
Adjective song in class.
Adjectives in the web- Students will write various adjectives for
given nouns. The noun will be illustrated with a picture.
Worksheet
CREATIVE WRITING
Informal letter -‘ Write a letter to your friend inviting him for a
family function at your house.
LITERATURE:
Unit 5–I Found My Mother
Using Google Earth
LISTENING AND
SPEAKING –DIALOGUE
Unit 3- Helping Hands
GRAMMAR
L 17–Pronouns
6.
9th Aug –
30th Aug
15
Cut out a paragraph from an old newspaper/ magazine / story book
and underline all the pronouns in it.
Oral drill of verbs in the various tenses.
CREATIVE WRITING
Story writing by arranging the sentences given in the correct order.
LITERATURE:
Unit 6 – I Hate Bugs
Activity: Students will choose any insect/ bug and gather details
about it. (Clues on Page 74- Learn to speak)
New words, word meanings, opposites, sentences, RTC, Q/ A
GRAMMAR:
L 20- Simple Present Tense
7.
Listening exercises through CD.
Speaking activity on pg 22-23.
L-18-19 Verbs and Tenses
(Present, Past and Future)
LISTENING AND
SPEAKING –DIALOGUE
Unit 5 – Fun Time
1st Sep –
30th Sep
1st Oct31st Oct
Activity : Students will conduct a survey with 8 people based on the
criteria given on page 62 and write a paragraph on the observations
from the survey.
(New words, word meanings, opposites, sentences, RTC, Q/A)
Listening exercises through CD.
Speaking activity at pg 37.
Flashcard activity: Students will be shown several pictures and they
will write sentences in the present tense.
CREATIVE WRITING
Story writing with the help of clues.
15
Revision
Worksheets for practice
15
LITERATURE:
Unit 7- The Abraham Prize
Students will write a paragraph narrating an incidence when they
found someone copying/ cheating in an exam. Also write what should
they do in such a situation.
New words, word meanings, opposites, sentences, RTC, Q/ A
LITERATURE READER
Lesson 4 – The Hornbill
GRAMMAR:
L-21 Present continuous
Tense
L -22-Simple Past Tense
CREATIVE WRITING:
Activity- Students will paste the picture of a hornbill and write a
paragraph of 15-20 lines about it.
Flashcard activity: Students will be shown several pictures and they
will write sentence in the present continuous tense.
Newspaper/ magazine/ story book activity- Students will cutout
sentences in the past tense from a newspaper/ magazine/ story book.
Story writing using clues.
8.
9.
1st Nov –
21st Nov
22nd Nov
– 10th Dec
15
15
LITERATURE:
Unit 8 – Shooting
LISTENING AND
SPEAKING –DIALOGUE
Unit 7- How are you?
Listening exercises through CD.
Speaking activity at pg 53.
READING SKILLS
Unseen Passage
Worksheet
CREATIVE WRITING:
Story writing using clues
LITERATURE:
Unit 8–I Had A Dove
(poem)
LISTENING AND
SPEAKING –DIALOGUE
Unit 9: Home sweet home
GRAMMAR:
L-23 Subject Verb
Agreement
CREATIVE WRITING:
10.
11th Dec30th Dec
15
LITERATURE:
Unit 9 – Bachendri Pal
LITERATURE READER
Lesson 5: Sindbad and the
Strange Island
GRAMMAR:
L-24 -Adverbs
11.
1st Jan –
31st Jan
15
Students will write a paragraph on “ Shooting is good or bad? Give
reasons.”
New words, word meanings, opposites, sentences, RTC, Q/ A
Activity: Students will paste the pictures of a bird in a cage and one
bird in a tree. They will write which bird will be happier and why?
New words, RTC
Listening exercises through CD.
Speaking activity at pg 73.
Students will be given few nouns and verbs and they shall make
sentences, which are in agreement to the subject and verb. The
sentences will be illustrated.
Formal letter writing.
Activity: Students will make a webchart of the qualities a mountain
climber should have and give reasons for each of them.
New words, word meanings, opposites, sentences, RTC, Q/ A
Activity –Draw a picture to illustrate any adventure you had. Write
a paragraph describing it in detail using clues on page 56.
L 25– Prepositions
Worksheet
Adverb Song in class. Adverb web to be made by students in their
notebook
Box activity for understanding preposition.
CREATIVE WRITING
Formal Letter
LITERATURE:
Unit 9– Another Chance
Activity: Students will write what would they like to change if they
got another chance to live their life again.
LITERATURE READER
Lesson 6 – Memories of a
Different Kind of Childhood
Activity – Write a character sketch of Indira Gandhi on the basis of
reading the story.
GRAMMAR:
L-26–Conjunctions
L 28 –Understanding Words
12.
1st Feb –
21st Feb
15
Flashcard activity: grouping sentences using conjunctions.
More homophones- Students will write homophones from their
knowledge and make sentences to show the difference in their
meaning.
LITERATURE:
Unit 11- The Refugees
Role play
Revision
Prescribed BooksOxford New Broadway Coursebook– 4
Oxford New Broadway Reader– 4
Dialogue - 4
Essentials of English Grammar and Composition – 4
Grafalco Cursive Writing Book