ICSE Syllabus for Class 6 English 2024-25 Examination

The ICSE Class 6 English Syllabus has  Listening and Speaking. This can be done by listening to a plethora of text, such as poetry, story, various narratives, lectures etc. Listen and comprehend issues/topics raised in spoken texts (public address, guest speaker, televised interview, Social media/internet videos) and ask for clarification or elaboration of ideas. You can also participate in Group discussions, debates, speech, drama, presentations etc. (use of graphics, images, music, sound and visual displays in presentations.This will help in Analyze and evaluate the use of language in different contexts (newspapers, television, billBoards and advertising campaigns) and its interpretation. You can also adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks e.g.– tone,  gestures,  stress,  facial expressions,  body language, voice modulation, Dictation of Chunks of language, ICSE Class 6 English Syllabus – Reading,  Texts (Literary and Non Literary) covering different themes and registers for comprehension and inference. The themes may include,

•  Self

•  Family

• Home

•  Friends

•  Neighborhood and Community at large

• The Nation – diversity (socio-cultural, religious and ethnic, as well as linguistic), heritage Myths/legends/folktales),

• The World – India’s neighbors and other countries (their cultures, literature, and customs)

• Adventure, Imagination and creativity, 

• Sports and Yoga,

• Issues relating to Adolescence, 

• Science and Technology, 

• Peace and Harmony,

• Travel and Tourism,

• Mass Media, 

• Art and Culture, 

• Health and Reproductive health

• Environmental concerns – water conservation, cleanliness and sanitation, Safety –personal safety & awareness about child abuse, conservation energy,  

• Extensive and intensive reading of the texts, ICSE Class 6 English Syllabus – Writing,Simple messages, invitations, short paragraphs, informal letters applications Short compositions based on pictures

• Simple stories and descriptive pieces, etc, organize and structure thoughts in writing,

• Organize and structure meaningful sentences and using linkers such as ‘firstly’, ‘then’, ‘later’, ‘finally’, etc. 

• Age-appropriate use of words and phrases, Follow process approach to writing i.e., planning, revising, reviewing, editing, rewriting, ICSE Class 6 English Syllabus – Grammar and Vocabulary in Context, Pronouns – Personal, reflexive pronouns, pronoun number and person, Subject-verb agreement, Tenses to convey various times, sequences, states, and conditions.

• Recognition of correct and incorrect /inappropriate shifts in verb tense, 

• Vocabulary in context is a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase, 

• Age-appropriate affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word, 

• Dictionary and reference materials, print, digital and tactile, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech,Figures of speech in context, 

ICSE Class 6 English Literature Syllabus – Suggested Reading List,Novels by Gerard Durrell,Malgudi Days – R.K. Narayan,I am Malala – Malala Yousafzai, Detective stories – Agatha Christie, The Lost World – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Happy Prince and Other Tales – Oscar Wilde,Animal Farm – George Orwell, Tuck Everlasting – Natalie Babbitt, Short Stories (O’ Henry/ Saki/ Leo, Tolstoy/Rudyard Kipling/ Guy De Maupassant/Mark Twain/ Oscar Nicolai Gogol and Translations from Indian writers like Tagore, Premchand, etc.), Something Out of nothing,Marie Curie and Radium – Carl Killough, Ignited minds – APJ Kalam, Graphic Novels: Tintin Series/ Asterix seriesWilde/Jorge Luis Borges/William Faulkner/Anton Chekhov/ Edgar Allen Poe/Franz Kafka/Earnest Hemingway /Flannery O’Connor/James Joyce/Ray Bradbury/Roald Dahl /