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Unit Plan
Class: VII Subject:English
Unit: 10 No. of periods required:26
A. Reading: Snakes in India
B. Reading: Trees are the kindest things I know
C. Reading: A Letter from Mother Earth
Expected outcomes:
1. Involvement of children during the transaction of all components
listens and expresses their views and ideas freely.
2. Children should able to read and comprehend the given reading
text individually and collaboratively.
3. Children should be able to use appropriate Vocabulary and
Grammar in oral and written discourses.
4. Creative Expressions; Construction of written Discourses
Description – narrative – conversation – letter - paragraph
I. Period wise Details
Period
No
Content/activity/disco
urse
Strategy Resource
s/TLM
required
01 Face sheet Picture interaction
Whole Class Activity
Text
book,Blac
k Board

2. 2
02 Discourse: Description
of snakes in India.
Interaction,
Individual,Group
Activity,
Charts
03 Discourse-Editing Interaction,Negotiatio
n
Individual,Group
Presentation,
Charts
Period
No
Content/activity/disco
urse
Strategy Resource
s/TLM
required
04 Reading Segment 1:
Para 1 what are the
most……..in days or
weeks of agony.
Individual,Group and
Teacher reading,
Text
Book,Cha
rts
05 Discourse: Construction
of a narrative
Interaction,
Individual,Group
Activity
Charts
06 Discourse-Editing-
Narrative
Interaction,Negotiatio
n,Individual,GroupPr
esentation
Charts
07 Reading segment 2:Para
2 to 6.
Take what happened
to…..kolkata and new
delhi.
Individual, Group and
Teacher reading
Text
Book
18 Discourse: Interaction,
Individual, Group
Charts

3. 3
Activity
19 Discourse: Writing the
script of choreography
( nagula chavithi ) 19
sl.no
Interaction,
Negotiation,
Individual, Group
Presentation
Charts
10 Reading – Segment 3:
Para 7 and 8
But during the next few
hours………………..bl
ood transfusion.
Individual, Group and
Teacher reading
Text
Book
11 Discourse : Description
of Russells viper,
Indian cobra, krait
Interaction,
Individual, Group
Activity
Charts
12 Discourse-Editing Interaction,
Negotiation,
Individual, Group
Presentation
Charts
Period
No
Content/activity/disco
urse
Strategy Resource
s/TLM
required
13 Transaction of
components-vocabulary
Interaction,
Individual, Group
Activity
Text
Book
14 Transaction of
components-Grammar
Interaction,
Individual, Group
Activity
Charts
15 Transaction of Interaction, Text

4. 4
components-Writing
:Paragraph
Individual, Group
Activity
book,
Black
Board,
Charts
16 Paragraph-Editing Interaction,
Negotiation,
Individual, Group
Presentation
Text
Book
17 Transaction of
Listening activity..
Teacher and whole
class activity
Text
book,
18 Transaction of
components-Study
Skills
Interaction,
Individual, Group
Activity
Text
book,
Black
Board
,Charts
19 B. Reading Poem:
Trees
Individual, Group and
Teacher reading
Text
book,
Black
Board
20 Discourse: Writing the
script of choreography
Interaction,
Negotiation,
Individual, Group
Presentation
Charts,
Note
books
21 Discourse-Editing:
Script of choreography
Interaction,
Negotiation, Group
Presentation
Charts,
Note
books
22 c. Reading: A Letter
from Mother Earth.
Individual, Group and
Teacher reading
Text
book,
Black

5. 5
Board
23 Discourse: Letter
writing.
Individual, Group
Activity
Charts,
Note
books
Period
No
Content/activity/disco
urse
Strategy Resource
s/TLM
required
24 Discourse-Editing Interaction,
Negotiation, Group
Presentation
Charts,
Note
books
25 Transaction of Project: Individual, Group
Activity
Charts,
Note
books
26 Project Work-
Presentation
Collect the pics of
poisonous n
nonpoisonous snakes on
charts, make
presentation n display it
on the wall magazine.
Interaction,
Negotiation, Group
Presentation
Charts,
Note
books
II. Period wise Teacher’s notes /Interactive question (
Period 1: Face sheet
1. What do you observe in the picture?

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2. Where do you normally find snakes?
Have you ever seen a snake?
3. Are all snakes dangerous? Why?
4. In what way the snakes are useful?
Period 2 : Discourse: Description of snakes in India.
1. What are the most dangerous animals on the Indian subcontinent?
2. What are they?
3. How many humans are bitten by venomous snakes in India?
4. Approximate deaths in India due to snake bite in India according to
world health organization ?
5.
Period 3: Discourse-Editing- Description of your family
1. What modifications will you make in the description if you have to
write again in terms of the following?
2. The theme – does the description communicate the theme?
3. The language – whether changes needed in the sentences
presented.
4. Whether the events sequence is in order, are there any changes
needed?

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Period 4: Reading Segment – 1 (paragraphs 1 to 13)
1. What is the passage about?
2. Who was Tengal Kamal? what happened to him one day?
3. Did he panic? What did he do ?
5. Who came to rescue him?
6. Was doctor a fully qualified person? How he tried to cure the patient?
As a result what happened to Kamal?
7. what did kamal relatives do finally and what happened to him later?
9. How many transfusions were given to him and how much time it took
to kamal to be out of danger?
Period 5:Discourse: Construction of a narrative
1. How many species of snakes are found in India? Of them how
many are venomous?
2. Name some venomous snakes in India and where they are found?
3. Generally where do we find Indian cobras and common kraits?
Period 6:Discourse-Editing: Construction of a narrative
1. How did you begin the narrative?
2. Are all the events in a proper order?
3. Did you use any linkers (then, suddenly, at last, finally etc.) to
connect
the ideas/ events?
4. What other expressions did you use?
5. How did you end the paragraph?

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6. Do you want to make any changes in your paragraph?
(Such as rephrasing the sentences/ re-ordering the ideas.)
Period 7:Reading segment – 2 (Paragraphs 14 to 32)
1. What do you know about viper?
2. which snake is more dangerous Viper of Indian cobra?
3. Tell me something about Indian cobra
4. What do you mean by spectacle and monocle?
5. Do you find any events/ descriptions in the passage?
6. why snakes attack humans?
7. What do snakes prey upon?
8. what precautions should be taken against snakes?
Period 12 : Discourse-Editing - Description of the character of Gopi
1. What modifications will you make in the description if you have to
write again in terms of the following?
2. The theme – does thedescription communicate the different types of
snakes?
3. The language – whether changes needed in the sentences
presented.
4.Whether the events sequence is in order, are there any changes
needed?
Period 13:Transaction of components-vocabulary
Page no 156, prefix n suffixes
Period 14:Transaction of components-Grammar

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“as long as” and “until”
Period 15: -Writing a paragraph
1.What precautions should be taken to a snake bite?
2.Are snakes in any way useful to us? What happens if they are
totally eradicated?
3. Prepare a poster giving a list of dos and donts when a snake bites.
Period 16: Discourse-Editing- Writing a paragraph
1. What modifications will you make in the paragraph if you have to
Write again in terms of the following?
2. The theme – does the paragraph communicate the theme?
3. The language – whether changes needed in the sentences
presented.
4.Whether the events sequence is in order, are there any changes
needed?
Period 17: Transaction of Listening activity.
Teacher will read the story the farmer and the cobra…(later
questions……why did the ppl leave the farmer to himself? Did the
farmer talk to the cobra?....etc later true of false statements)
Period 18: Transaction of components-Study Skills
Bar chart

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Period 19: B. Reading Poem: My Mother
Interaction based on the picture:
1. What is the poem about?
2. What ideas do you get from the picture?
3. What ideas do you observe in the first picture?
4. What ideas do you observe in the second picture?
Interaction based on the poem:
1. Who does ‘I’ refer to?
2. Who are the woman and the boy?
3. What do the woman and the man refer to?
4. What emotions does the poem contain?
5. What do you understand the line “I cannot remember my mother’?
6. Where did the writer find his mother’s identity in the first stanza?
7. Where did the writer find his mother’s identity in the second
stanza?
8. Where did the writer find his mother’s identity in the third stanza?
9. What is the central theme of the poem?
Period 20:Discourse: Writing the script of choreography
1.What imagery do you find in each stanza? What does it appeal?
2. Who are the characters involved?
3. Where do the incident happen?
Period 21:Discourse-Editing: Script of choreography
1) Are all the events included?
2) Are there sufficient dialogues?
3) Do you want any changes in the dialogues?

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Period 22:C. Reading- Letter
1. Who wrote the letter to whom?
2. What are the descriptions you identified in the passage/ letter?
3. What is the letter about?
4. Describe the present situation of the writer?
5. what are the advantages of forests?
Period 23:Discource-Letter writing
1. How did the Mother Earth begin the letter?
3. How did it wish her children to be?
4. why mother earth feels tht she is not respected?
5. How did mother earth write the ideas it wanted to express?
6. Are they in a proper order?
7. Is the language formal or informal?
8. What other features do you observe?
9.what are the advantages of forests?
Period 24: Editing -Letter
1. How did you begin the letter?
2. How does the salutation begin?
3. What ideas did you include? What is the most touching thing tht u
find in this letter?
4. Have you used proper connectives like ‘well, but, while, gradually,
so, etc.?
5. Have you used proper pronouns?

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6. Was conclusion appropriate ?
7. Did mother earth use a proper subscription like yours lovingly, your
friend, etc?
Period 25: Transaction of Project:
1. what change in the attitude of the human beings towards the
mother earth?
2. Do u love mother earth as she loves u ?
Describe the following questions on a chart:
1. How will you do the project?
2. Where will you get the information from?
3. Who will collect the information?
4. How will you share the information?
5. How will you record the data?
6. What questions will you ask for discussion?
Period 26:Project Work-Presentation
III-Teacher Reflections/ Comments (Period Wise)
Period -1
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Period – 2