Listening and Speaking
- Conversations in groups, debates, speeches, plays, presentations, etc.
- Use of visual displays, audio, music, and graphics in presentations.
- Examine and assess how language is used and understood in various contexts
- Adapt speech to various situations and tasks, using techniques including tone, gestures, stress, facial expressions, body language, and voice modulation.
- Reading
- For understanding and inference, use literary and non-literary texts with a variety of themes and registers. The themes could be:
- Personal, Family, Home, and Friends
- Neighbourhood and the larger community
- The NationNation – diversity ( religious and ethnic, socio-cultural as well as linguistic), legacy
- Legends/myths/folktales
- The World — India’s neighbours and other countries (their literature, cultures, and customs)
- Imagination, adventure, and creativity
- Exercise and yoga
- Concerns with Adolescence
- Research and Development
- Unity and Peace
- Tourism and Travel
- Mass Media
- Culture and the Arts
- Children’s experiences
- Health and reproductive health
- Personalities and achievers
- Conservation of water, sanitation, other environmental issues, personal safety, knowledge of child abuse, and energy conservation.
- Intensive and extensive reading of the texts.
- Writing
- Simple communications, formal and informal letters, brief paragraphs, and invitations.
- Short literary works based on images.
- Simple pieces of narrative and description
- Grammar and Vocabulary in Context
- Reflexive pronouns, pronoun number and person, and pronoun-antecedent agreement to include indefinite pronouns are all pronouns that should be used correctly.
- Subject-verb agreement with phrases or clauses in between
- Intransitive and Transitive verbs.
- Tenses are used to describe state, condition, time, and sequence.
- Recognizing suitable and inappropriate verb tense changes.
- Using vocabulary in context to determine a word’s or phrase meaning
- Using age-appropriate roots and affixes as hints to a word’s meaning.
- To find a word’s pronunciation and its specific meaning or to clarify it, use a dictionary or other reference material in print, digital, or tactile form.
- Figures of speech in context.