Course Content
UNIT 1 | Friendship & Cooperation
"Communication within a friendship is important for human development throughout life. Beginning in childhood, friendships shape and reflect developments in social cognition, perspective-taking abilities, moral comportment, and cooperation as equals. During adolescence and younger adulthood, friendships cultivate ethical sensibilities, and understandings and practices of intimacy, identity, and sociability. Acrosslifef,e people describe three benefits of close friendship: somebody to talk to; to depend on and rely on for instrumental help, social support, and caring, and to have fun and enjoy doing things with. Communication with friends relieves loneliness and contributes to physical and psychological well-being."
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1.1 Reading Comprehension: Friends in trouble
07:06
1.2 Language Practice: Term: Used to
04:44
1.3 Writing A Paragraph
05:36
1.4 Writing a Letter | Types of Letters
04:00
3 Minute English
00:00
Quiz Yourself 💭🤔💭 | Reading Things
UNIT 2 | Natural Beauty Of Pakistan
"Natural beauty is unmatched. Pakistan has the world's most beautiful places to visit, especially at their best in northern areas of the Pakistan and Kashmir region. This part of the the country is famous all around the world because of sky high mountains, lush green valleys, mighty rivers, beautiful lakes, and amazing wildlife. The Paradise on Earth ‘Neelum Valley’ Mini Switzerland ‘Swat Valley’ and Mountain Kingdom ‘Hunza valley’ are the major tourist attractions in Pakistan."
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2.1 Reading Comprehension: My Blessed Beautiful Land
17:17
2.2 Speaking: Agee or Disagree Politely
04:33
2.3 Language Practice: Past Perfect Tense
05:27
2.4 Writing an Application
07:18
3 Minute English
00:00
Quiz Yourself 💭🤔💭 | Past Perfect Tense
UNIT 3 | Traffic Education
"Traffic education means education on traffic rules. It embraces all rules and regulations to be followed while driving on roads. Traffic education is essential for drivers and pedestrians. Drivers and pedestrians having no traffic education may cause fatal accidents on the road. There are many rules and regulations in traffic. Some of them are following the order of the traffic police; following the speed limit sticking to the respective side, checking vehicles properly before driving, following the rules of loading vehicles with passengers or goods, in crowded places, and curves driving slowly and carefully and using horns, etc."
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3.1 Reading Comprehension: Better Be Safe Then Sorry
04:03
3.2 Speaking: Expressing Opinion
05:07
3.3 Language Practice: Imperative Sentences
03:31
3.4 Writing: A Formal Email
02:16
3 Minute English
02:56
Quiz Yourself 💭🤔💭 | Descriptive Basics
UNIT 4 | Exploring The Educational Opportunities
"Literacy involves gaining the skills and knowledge to read and interpret varying texts and artifacts, and successfully navigate and negotiate their challenges, conflicts, and crises. To the domains of reading, writing, and traditional print literacies, one could argue that in an era of technological revolution, educators must develop robust forms of media literacy, computer literacy, and multimedia literacies, thus cultivating “multiple literacies.”
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4.1 Reading Comprehension: Educational Exhibition
03:29
4.2 Language Practice: Direct & Indirect Speech
05:02
4.3 Writing A Paragraph
01:23
4.4 Word Class In English
07:45
3 Minute English
02:35
Quiz Yourself 💭🤔💭 | Direct/Indirect Speech
UNIT 5 | Humanism
"Humanism is a rational philosophy informed by science, inspired by art, and motivated by compassion. Affirming the dignity of each human being supports the maximization of individual liberty and opportunity consonant with social and planetary responsibility. It advocates the extension of participatory democracy and the expansion of the open society, standing for human rights and social justice. Free of supernaturalism, it recognizes human beings as a part of nature and holds that values-be they religious, ethical, social, or political-have their source in human experience and culture."
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5.1 Reading Comprehension: What shaped Edhi’s Life
03:20
5.2 Language Practice: Linking Words
07:32
3 Minute English
00:00
Quiz Yourself 💭🤔💭 | Linking Words
UNIT 6 | Sportsmanship
"Sportsmanship is a vital element of sports that ignites and maintains friendship, respect, and orderliness. It describes unbiased and kind behavior while treating opponents, officials, teammates, and spectators in sports. Sportsmanship is the ethical aspect of sports. It is displayed by the combination of positive qualities like fair play, integrity, and respect towards opponents, officials, teammates, and even the fans. Sportsmanship can also be demonstrated by displaying politeness even in defeat and sustaining self-discipline in dealings with others."
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6.1 Reading Comprehension: Sportsmanship
00:00
6.2 Language Practice: Comparative Adjectives
6.4 Reading Comprehension: The multiple roles that women play
6.5 Language Practice: Adjectives with Reference to ‘Than’
3 Minute English
04:36
Quiz Yourself 💭🤔💭 | Comparative Adjectives
English – VIII
About Lesson

Pre-Reading Activity

a. Work in pairs and write down any five professions that you can think of.
b. Choose one profession that you would like to take up in the future.
c. Tell your partner why you want to take up that profession.
d. We are going to read a text titled EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITION. Guess what
the text is about.

Reading Text | Excerpt

EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITION

The management of the Government High School No.2 Shikarpur has organized an
educational exhibition in the school playground. Students and their parents have
been invited to the exhibition to enable them to explore various available educational
opportunities that the students can think about.

Educational stalls, cultural stalls, along with various food stalls have been set up
nicely, with wonderful cultural music playing in the background to make the
environment lively. Students with their parents are walking around and visit
various stalls.

Match the words with their meanings and write the answers in the answer column.
One example is given in the table.
While Reading
Exercise 1

Vocabulary

scope
opportunities
myth
reflects
breeding

curiosity
exposed
global
challenges

valuable
rapidly
communicate
dramatic
animated

backbone
currently
amazing
convince
dental
optimism

Practical Reading Techniques: Skimming And Scanning

Skimming

Skimming is a speed reading technique used whenever we need to get the entire text’s main idea. When you skim a text, you are not after the details or examples given, but rather, you are looking at what the whole text is all about.

We typically skim long texts for us to get a better idea of the entire chapter or article. Skimming is especially helpful whenever we need to read long texts in a short period of time. When learning English online, we usually skim different texts as part of our classes.

Scanning

Scanning is another speed reading technique that is useful for people who are learning English online. When we can, we read a text quickly to search for specific information or answer a particular question. When scanning, we disregard the other details in the text and its main idea, which is not part of our goal. 

An excellent example of scanning texts is whenever we need to look up the meaning of a word in the dictionary. When we do, we don’t have to go through the other words in the text to locate the definition of a specific word. However, we can also scan different types of texts, not just dictionaries and reference materials.

Sample Passages 

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