SYLLABUS GRADE 7

MID-TERM Session 2019-20

Subject names Syllabus

ENGLISH

Session: 2019-2020

1. Listening skills: To be able to listen to any verbal communication with a reasonable degree of understanding.

2. Speaking Skills: Students will be tested on their ability to speak clearly, using grammatically complete and correct sentences. Following will be emphasized: Extempore Speech

3. Reading Skills: Students should be able to read unfamiliar texts with understanding

the meaning of lexical items and answer questions based on it. The marks obtained from Reading, Listening and Speaking assessment will be added with internal assessment.

4. Writing Skills: The students should be able to express themselves by writing a

continuous piece of creative writing. The following will be emphasized:

Narrative writing

Descriptive writing

Article

News report

Summary

5. Grammar: Students will be expected to identify or change the given words/sentences

and rewrite them after correcting. Following will be emphasized:

Language Development, which involves grammar and extensive vocabulary

learning: The following will be emphasized: determiners, prepositions, auxiliary

verbs, modals, linking verbs, the complement, adverbs and adverbials,

conjunctions.

Punctuation: To be able to punctuate unpunctuated lines by putting appropriate

punctuation marks capitalization, full stop, comma, question mark, exclamation

mark, colon, semicolon, quotation marks and apostrophes.

Figurative Language: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Idioms, Hyperbole, Understatement, Alliteration, Irony.

Spellings: Students will be expected to write the correct spellings of the frequently used and misspelt words.

6. Literature: Questions will be set on: Chapter 9-20

Analyzing the characters

Analyzing the plot, the theme

Registering personal interpretation of the characters, the plot, the theme

Explaining in reference to the context.

Books used:

Secondary English Book 3 by Sadler Hayllar Powell

Cambridge Checkpoint English Course Book 9

Everyday English Grammar and Composition

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Chapters: 9-20)

Teachers’ Handouts & Worksheets

Internal assessment will be based on class work, homework and projects and will add up

to 20% (20 marks)

The Examination will be out of 80 marks which will include a Reading Comprehension

Passage (unseen) with questions, Grammar, Literature interpretation and Composition.

Bangla

MATHEMATICS Section - 1

1. Chapter-4 : Length, Mass and capacity

Section- 2

1. Chapter-9 : Equations and Inequalities

2. Chapter -12: Processing and presenting data

Section -3

1. Chapter- 15: Fractions, Decimals and Percentages

2. Chapter – 18 : Area and Volume

Section – 4

1. Chapter – 23: Functions and Graph

Monthly Syllabus ( September- October)

Section -1 : Chapter – 4: Length Mass and Capacity

Section – 2: Chapter-9 : Equation and Inequalities

Geography

Climate

Atmospheric circulation and world climates

Equatorial and tropical continental climates

The monsoon, hot desert and cold climates

Tropical cyclone

Global warming

Effect and solution of Global warming Case study

Settlement and urban growth

Site and situation

Settlement types

Settlement patterns

Functions

Hierarchies

Urban land use models

HISTORY

Chapter Content

World War II

The world between the

wars

The rise of dictators

The world slides into

World War II

World War II-The fighting

at sea, on land and in the

air

The results of World War

II

Bangladesh

Studies

Famous

Personality

Kazi Nazrul Islam

BIOLOGY

Cambridge

Checkpoint

Science

Coursebook and

Workbook 8

1. Unit 3- Circulatory system

2. Unit 4- Respiration

3. Unit 5- Reproduction

Chemistry

Textbook:

Chemistry for you

(Lawrie Ryan)

Textbook: Cambridge Checkpoint Science Coursebook (8)

Cambridge Checkpoint Science Workbook (8)

Sl.

No.

Units Name of the chapter Topic

1

Unit-8

( Cambridge

Checkpoint Science

Coursebook 8 )

Compounds and

Mixtures

8.5- Solutions, solubility,

Temperature and solubility

8.6- Solubility investigation

2

Unit-9

( Cambridge

Checkpoint Science

Coursebook 8 )

Material changes

9.1- Physical and chemical changes

9.2- Burning

9.3- Reaction with acids, Testing for

hydrogen and carbon dioxide

9.4- Rearranging atoms

9.5- Explaining unexpected results

9.6- Detecting chemical reactions

9.7- Rusting

3

Unit-5

( Cambridge

Checkpoint Science

Coursebook 9 )

Energy changes

5.1- Burning

5.2- Exothermic reactions

5.3- Endothermic reactions

5.4- Exothermic or endothermic?

4

Unit-7

( Cambridge

Checkpoint Science

Coursebook 9 )

Salts

7.1- Acids and salts

7.2- Preparation of salts

7.3- Metal carbonates and salts

7.4- Forming salts by neutralization

PHYSICS

TEXT: 1. PHYSICS FOR HIGHER TIER

2. CAMBRIDGE CHECKPOINT BOOK-8

1. FT 4: Pressure (PHYSICS FOR HIGHER TIER)

2. Chapter 3: Energy (PHYSICS FOR HIGHER TIER)

: 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04, 3.06, 3.09

3. Chapter 4: Waves (PHYSICS FOR HIGHER TIER): 4.05

4. Unit 11: Sound (CAMBRIDGE CHECKPOINT BOOK-8)

5. Unit 12: Light (CAMBRIDGE CHECKPOINT BOOK-8)

Computer

Science( C.Sc)

BOOK: VIVA DOT COM (COMPUTER SCIENCE AND

Mid Term:

CHAPTER 4: More on Flash CS6

CHAPTER5: Animation and layers in Flash

CHAPTER6: More on Internet

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Practical Assessment

1. Software’s used in this term (MS-excel, MS-word and MS power point, Small Basic, Flash,

and HTML).

2. Individual Practical work based on the chapters (Writing codes, creating table, inserting

picture, clipart, SmartArt, applying formulas, editing data, power point presentation etc.)

3. Project and activities (group presentation)

4. Chapter wise practical test

5. Oral assessment

Theory Assessment

1. Chapter wise exercise solving (MCQ fill in the box, true false, matching)

2. Chapter wise question answer solving (steps, how to, identifying, labeling and usage of

different tools)

3. Class test

4. Assignments

Question Paper Pattern

F/B, T/F, ONE WORD ANSWER, FULL FORMS, DRAWING DIAGRAM/DEVICE, BOARD QUESTION, SHORT QUESTIONS.

Note: Must have idea on computer terminology

French

Language

Book - Adosphère 1 Module 4: Lesson 4, page 56, 57 Module 5: lesson 1, page 61 - 63 Along with all the related exercises.

General

Awareness Mid Term

1. Topic: The Magic of

Words

Page no. 24-27

2. Topic: Sci-Tech Trek Page no. 28-34

3. Topic: Brainwaves Page no. 35-40

4. Handouts Handouts will be

provided by the

respective General

Knowledge teachers

5. Project work As chosen by the

respective General

Knowledge Teachers

Business

Studies

[For the second term, Economics will be key focus]

1. Basic law of demand and supply:

Relationship of price with demand and supply.

2. The concept of GDP and economic growth

Definition of GDP

How GDP is related with the economic growth of a country

3. Internet Banking and e-commerce

Increasing popularity of internet banking and e-commerce

Benefits and drawbacks of e-commerce and e-banking

4. Needs and wants:

Basic needs, the concept of limited resources and unlimited

wants.

The economic problem, choice and opportunity costs.

5. Goods and services:

Primary, secondary and tertiary sectors of businesses.

Distinction between goods and services; concepts of capital,

consumer and semi-finished goods, personal and

commercial services.

6. Competition and monopoly:

Concepts of perfect competition, monopoly and oligopoly

Advantages and disadvantages of monopoly

Advantages and disadvantages of competition

7. Employment vs unemployment:

Importance of employment

Consequences of having high unemployment rate

8. Income, savings, tax and interest:

Concept of income and disposable income

Importance of saving

Various types of tax

Interest rate and its implication

GP (Global

Prospective)

Topic Skill focus Stage Learning objectives

Disease and

health

Research Stage-

9

Research-Construct a range of relevant questions

and identify the most appropriate one to follow up.

Identify and accurately reference a wide range of

print and multimedia sources and use them to

locate relevant information and answer

research questions.

Collaboration-The team assign roles and tasks

with an appropriate rationale and respond

flexibility when required to help each other

achieve a shared outcome.

Sport and

recreation

Analysis

Stage-

9

Analysis- Identify perspectives and synthesis

arguments and evidence from a range of

sources on a given topic

Communication- Present coherent,

well-reasoned and clearly structured

arguments with detailed referencing of

sources where appropriate.

Global Perspectives assessment process- Power Point Presentation, Research work, Team work-

Poster,

Question /Answer (Students opinion), Reflection, Report writing, Poster.