1. Prose

• Themes: Stories often explore more complex themes such as justice, equality, human rights, historical events, and cultural diversity.
• Skills: Students focus on deepening their comprehension skills, analyzing characters and plots, understanding the author’s intent, and identifying literary devices.
• Activities: Writing summaries, answering analytical questions, character sketches, and thematic essays.

2. Poetry

• Themes: Poems may cover a wide range of subjects, including nature, emotions, societal issues, and philosophical reflections.
• Skills: Emphasis on understanding and interpreting poetic devices like imagery, symbolism, personification, and metaphor.
• Activities: Poetry recitation, interpretation, analysis of themes and style, and identifying the poet’s tone and mood.

3. Grammar

• Topics Covered: More advanced grammar concepts including clauses, phrases, active and passive voice, modals, conditional sentences, direct and indirect speech, and complex sentence structures.
• Activities: Detailed exercises, error correction, sentence transformation, and application of grammar rules in writing.

4. Writing Skills

• Types of Writing:
  • Essays: Analytical, narrative, descriptive, and argumentative essays on a variety of topics.
  • Letters: Formal letters (applications, complaints, and requests) and informal letters (friendly and personal letters).
  • Report Writing: Writing reports on events, incidents, and experiments.
  • Story Writing: Crafting stories with intricate plots, well-developed characters, and coherent narrative flow.
  • Articles and Speeches: Writing articles for school magazines or speeches for presentations.
• Activities: Structured writing tasks, peer editing, creative writing assignments, and using outlines for organizing ideas.

5. Reading Comprehension

• Skills: Enhancing the ability to interpret and infer meaning from various types of texts, including fiction, non-fiction, and informational passages.
• Activities: Answering inferential and factual questions, summarizing, identifying the main idea, and discussing the text in detail.

6. Supplementary Reader

• Content: Often includes a novel or a collection of stories that encourage extensive reading and provide exposure to different genres and writing styles.
• Skills: Promotes reading for pleasure, critical thinking, and vocabulary expansion.
• Activities: Group discussions, presentations, book reviews, and creative projects based on the reading material.

7. Speaking and Listening

• Speaking: Focus on improving public speaking skills, clarity, articulation, and persuasive language through debates, extempore speeches, and group discussions.
• Listening: Developing active listening skills through tasks like note-taking during lectures, responding to spoken questions, and summarizing spoken content.