English (Second Language) Competency: 


Observing and Identifying


  • Observing pictures and photos and identifying important historical personalities like Rammohan, Vidyasagar, Derozio etc. or famous poets like Nazrul, Rabindranath etc.
  • Observing and identifying important social workers like BegumSakhawat, Vivekananda etc. or famous sports persons like Kapil Dev, P.T.Usha etc.
  • Observing famous incidents and explorations like India’s expedition to space, winning the first cricket world cup, Tenzing Norgay’s Everest expedition etc.
  • Observing and identifying important historical monuments like the TajMahal, Hzarduari palace, the Charminar, Konark sun temple, etc. in pictures and photos or other form of visuals(like video) and preparing a mind-map with words related to the monument.
  • Observing the various cultures of our country in the form of visual and performing art.
  • Observing and identifying cultural and literary heritage. Competency: Listening-Speaking
  • Listening to rhymes and poems (e.g. poems of Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll etc.) for joyful experience 
  • Reciting popular rhymes with gestures and actions for creativity and aesthetic experience.
  • Listening to stories from‘ BetalPanchabingshati’,‘Vikramaditya and 32 Sinhasans’, stories of         Birbal or any other popular regional story or legend and interpreting through interaction
  • Story-telling with the help of pictures. Students sit in groups and match pictures with sentence-cards. (E.g.Lesson 9)
  • Listening and participating in a patriotic song like ‘we shall overcome’ etc.
  • Participating inrole-play: Students enact the characters in the fables/folk tales or stories.
  • Participating in a Quiz: Students sit in groups. The groups may be named after eminent persons/places/ historical monuments. Teacher engages them in a quiz competition asking very short questions in English on various subjects [ranging from history to science] that they have learnt. One word answer has to be accepted and the group has to awarded
  • Interpreting a puzzle or a riddle
  • Participating in a Language game: Students tell each other how to reach a particular destination with the help of a map, as in ‘Let’s Talk’ of Lesson 3.
  • Participating in an interaction and asking questions to peer with the help of supportive material
  • Participating in a conversation narrating personal feelings and experience; e.g. ‘Let’s Talk’.


Competency: 

Reading: 1) Reading and enjoying the following rhymes and poems for aesthetic experience: 

a) There once were two cats of Kilkeny 
b) Timed out 
c) How many miles still, to the top? 
d) There was an old man on the border 
e) There was an old man with a beard 
f) The crocodile
g) You don’t always have to be in the lead 
h) Zoom, zoom, zoom 

2) Reading stories from Jataka for value education 

3) Reading personal narratives of eminent persons like extract from Satyajit Ray’s‘JokhonChotochilam’ 

4) Reading narrative and descriptive writings 


Competency: Aesthetic and Creative expression 


  • Making ascrap book of Indian sports persons 
  • Drawing pictures of seasonal activities 
  • Preparing a poster with pictures 
  • Creating designs 
  • Creating a story from a series of pictures 
  • Making a puppet with no-cost, low cost materials 
  • Making a chart 
  • Making a stamp album 
  • Making a model of a school 
  • Ability to make a route map 
Competency: Grammar and Vocabulary 
  • Participating in activities for developing grammatical skill on gender and number 
  • Ability to use adjectives 
  • Ability to use punctuations in sentences 
  • Ability to differentiate Subject and Predicate 
  • Ability to use Possessive pronouns 
  • Ability to use past tense (-ed words) 
  • Ability to use present continuous tense in sentences 
  • Use of wh- words in framing questions 
  • Ability to use articles meaningfully in sentences 
  • Use of Nouns  and ability to differentiate between common noun and proper noun 
  • Use of prepositions in sentences 
  • Differentiating personal and possessive pronouns 
  • Use of –s in third person singular number in present tense 
  • Ability to differentiate between ‘can’ and ‘cannot’ 
  • Use of  linkers in sentences 
  • Use the adverb of manner 
  • Ability to do crossword puzzle 
  • Ability to explore words in a maze 
  • Ability to explore the  odd-man-out 
  • Ability to experiment and make words by joining syllables
  • Ability to enlist words in alphabetical order 
  • Identifying opposite words

Competency: Writing 


  • Ability to encode information and  fill up chart 
  • Ability to solve a problem in a puzzle or crossword 
  • Ability to decode information from a grid and write a paragraph 
  • Ability to write answers for reading-comprehension questions 
  • Ability to write a short description of an eminent person 
  • Ability to narrate an activity 
  • Developing the skill of sequencing 
  • Ability to write a short paragraph using adjectives 
  • Ability to narrate a personal experience in about ten sentences 
  • Ability to describe oneself or his/her school 
  • Ability to write a dialogue 
  • Ability to write a story

Textbook:-‘Butterfly: English Text book for class V’

(New edition published by W.B.B.P.E.)
Syllabus For Three Summative Evaluation

1st Summative 
1. Revision lesson (22 periods) 
2. Lesson -1: India: Superpower in Cricket (22 periods) 
3. Lesson-2: A feat on feet (18 periods) 2nd Summative 
4. Lesson-3: Phulmani’s India(22 periods) 
5. Lesson-4: Memory in marble (12 periods) 
6. Lesson-5: My school days(16 periods) 
7. Lesson-6: The clever monkey (18 periods) 
8. Lesson-7The rebel poet(16  periods) 
9. Lesson-8: Buildings to remember(12 periods) 3rd Summative 
10. Lesson-9: Bird’s eye (10 periods) 
11. Lesson-10: A Great Social Reformer (10 periods) 
12. Lesson-11: The Finishing point (12 periods) 
13. Lesson-13: Beyond barriers (10 periods)


Source: WBBSE