Grade 7English Language

What your child actually learns this year

Every strand and every topic in the Grade 7 English Language curriculum, exactly as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. Written so you can read it in one sitting, without a teaching qualification.

1Listening and SpeakingFifteen topics on the half of English that leaves no written record: polite language, oral narratives, pronunciation and listening for the point somebody is actually making.15 topics·75 questions

  • Conversational Skills: Polite Language

    3 skills

  • Oral Presentations: Oral Narratives

    3 skills

  • Listening for the main idea

    3 skills

  • Listening Comprehension: Selective Listening

    4 skills

  • Pronunciation: Sounds and Word Stress

    4 skills

  • Conversation Skills

    4 skills

  • Listening Comprehension: Listening for Details

    3 skills

  • Listening Comprehension: Explanatory Narratives

    4 skills

  • Pronunciation: Consonant and Vowel Sounds

    5 skills

  • Oral Presentations: Delivering Speeches

    3 skills

  • Interviews

    5 skills

  • Listening: Views/ Opinions

    3 skills

  • Listening Comprehension: Extensive Listening

    4 skills

  • Consonant Sounds and Intonation

    4 skills

  • Oral Reports

    3 skills
2ReadingThirty topics, the largest strand in the subject. Class readers, trickster narratives, poetry and reading for information, each one read a different way.30 topics·145 questions

  • Extensive Reading: Independent Reading

    3 skills

  • Intensive Reading: Trickster Narratives

    3 skills

  • Intensive reading: Simple poems

    3 skills

  • Intensive Reading: Class Reader (Science and Health Education)

    3 skills

  • Reading: Information and Meaning

    3 skills

  • Intensive Reading: Poetry (Hygiene)

    4 skills

  • Intensive Reading (Leadership)

    3 skills

  • Intensive Reading: Class Readers (Leadership)

    4 skills

  • Synonyms and Antonyms

    4 skills

  • Intensive Reading: Oral Narratives

    4 skills

  • Reading: Fluency (Drug and Substance Abuse)

    3 skills

  • Oral literature: Songs

    4 skills

  • Independent Reading: Visuals

    3 skills

  • Characters in Class Readers

    3 skills

  • Intensive Reading (Travel)

    5 skills

  • Intensive Reading: Poetry (Travel)

    3 skills

  • Grade-appropriate fiction materials

    3 skills

  • Intensive reading: Class Reader (Heroes and Heroines: Kenya)

    3 skills

  • Study Skills: Note Making

    3 skills

  • Characters and their traits

    4 skills

  • Extensive Reading: Non-Fiction materials

    4 skills

  • Intensive reading: Dilemma Narratives

    4 skills

  • Intensive Reading-Comprehension

    4 skills

  • Class Reader: Main Ideas

    4 skills

  • Intensive Reading: Comprehension Strategies

    5 skills

  • Oral Literature: Praise Songs

    4 skills

  • Study Skills: Summarising

    3 skills

  • Features of style

    3 skills

  • Reading Fluency (Tourist Attraction Sites: Kenya)

    3 skills

  • Poetry

    3 skills
3Grammar in UseFifteen topics on the machinery of the language: word classes, tense and agreement, taught inside real subjects rather than as rules to recite.15 topics·105 questions

  • Word Classes: Nouns (Personal Responsibility)

    3 skills

  • Word Classes: Nouns (Science and Health Education)

    3 skills

  • Verbs and Tense (Hygiene)

    3 skills

  • Verbs and Tense (Leadership)

    4 skills

  • Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

    3 skills

  • Word Classes: Adverbs

    3 skills

  • Personal and possessive pronouns

    3 skills

  • Simple Prepositions

    3 skills

  • Conjunctions

    3 skills

  • Determiners

    3 skills

  • Formation of Adjectives

    3 skills

  • Phrasal Verbs

    3 skills

  • Sentences: Simple Sentences

    3 skills

  • Subject-Verb Agreement

    3 skills

  • Affirmative and Negative Sentences

    3 skills
4WritingFifteen topics running from legible handwriting and punctuation through paragraphing to functional writing such as a friendly letter.15 topics·75 questions

  • Handwriting: Legibility and Neatness

    3 skills

  • Mechanics of Writing: Punctuation Marks

    3 skills

  • Writing Narrative Paragraphs

    3 skills

  • Paragraphing: Using examples and incidents

    3 skills

  • Functional Writing: Friendly Letters

    3 skills

  • Commonly Misspelt Words

    3 skills

  • Composition: The Writing Process

    3 skills

  • Composition Writing: Self-Assessment

    3 skills

  • Creative writing: Narrative compositions (Heroes and Heroines: Kenya)

    3 skills

  • Functional Writing: Packing and Shopping lists

    4 skills

  • Spelling antonyms, synonyms, and numbers

    3 skills

  • The Writing Process: Dialogues

    3 skills

  • Creative Writing: Narrative Composition (Land Travel)

    3 skills

  • Descriptive Writing (200 – 240 words)

    3 skills

  • Functional Writing: Notices and Posters

    3 skills

Why you can take this page at face value

Straight from the KICD design

The strands and topics on this page are the Grade 7 English Language curriculum as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. We have not chosen them, reordered them or left any out.

Nothing here is a sample

Every topic below is covered in our question bank, not a selection of the easy ones. The numbers beside each strand are the real counts.

Marked by a machine, written by a person

Each question carries its full working and a note on why every wrong answer is wrong, so a child who misses one is told what they were thinking, not just that they were wrong.

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