🪔 Diwali English Test Series
5 free 10-question grammar tests for the Diwali vacation, one for each day. Students get instant scores and a certificate for 80% or more. Teachers can send any test to their own class.
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Passive Voice — Std 9, 40-Minute Class
Learning objective: Students correctly identify and construct passive voice sentences from given active voice sentences.
Materials: Board, Lesson 9: Passive Voice (project or print), the Lesson 9 worksheet PDF
- Warm-up (5 min) — Write two active sentences on the board (e.g. “The teacher checks the notebooks”). Ask: who is doing the action? Who is receiving it?
- Presentation (10 min) — Teach the structure: Object + be (is/am/are/was/were) + V3 (past participle) + by + Subject. Show that “by + subject” is often dropped when the doer is unknown or unimportant. Use the board and bridge/notebook examples from Lesson 9.
- Guided practice (10 min) — As a class, convert 5 active sentences to passive together on the board.
- Independent practice (10 min) — Students complete the Lesson 9 worksheet individually (change-to-passive exercises, fill-in-the-blank verb forms, matching, sentence writing — answer key included in the PDF).
- Wrap-up (5 min) — Cold-call 3–4 students to check answers aloud.
Homework: Assign the self-grading quiz at the bottom of the Lesson 9 page — students get their score instantly.
Differentiation: Struggling students: focus only on sentences where the doer is dropped (simpler pattern). Advanced students: have them write 3 of their own active sentences and convert them to passive.
Modal Verbs — 40-Minute Class
Learning objective: Students correctly choose and use can/could, may/might, and must/should according to meaning (ability, permission, possibility, obligation, advice).
Materials: Board, Lesson 8: Modal Verbs (project or print), the Lesson 8 worksheet PDF
- Warm-up (5 min) — Write on the board: “I ___ swim.” Ask students to fill the blank with different modals (can, could, must) and discuss how the meaning changes each time.
- Presentation (15 min) — Teach the three modal groups one at a time, using the board and the examples from Lesson 8: Can/Could for ability and permission (“She can swim very well” / “Could you please help me?”); May/Might for possibility (“It may rain this evening” / “She might join us later”); Must/Should for obligation and advice. Point out that all modals are followed directly by the base verb, with no “to.”
- Guided practice (10 min) — As a class, fill in 6 board sentences (2 per modal group) together, discussing why each modal fits.
- Independent practice (7 min) — Students complete the Lesson 8 worksheet individually (modal-verb practice, meaning classification, matching, sentence writing — answer key included in the PDF).
- Wrap-up (3 min) — Cold-call students to read out one sentence each, checking modal choice and meaning.
Homework: Assign the self-grading quiz at the bottom of the Lesson 8 page.
Differentiation: Struggling students: focus only on can/could (ability and permission — the most concrete pair). Advanced students: write a short paragraph (4–5 sentences) about their daily routine using at least four different modal verbs correctly.
Reported Speech — 40-Minute Class
Learning objective: Students correctly convert direct-speech statements into reported speech, applying the tense shift and pronoun changes.
Materials: Board, Lesson 10: Reported Speech (project or print), the Lesson 10 worksheet PDF
- Warm-up (5 min) — Say aloud: “Priya said, ‘I am happy.'” Ask: how would you tell a friend what Priya said, without using her exact words?
- Presentation (12 min) — Teach the tense-shift rule (Present Simple → Past Simple, and so on) and pronoun changes using the Lesson 10 examples: “She said, ‘I am happy.'” → “She said that she was happy.”; “He said, ‘I will come tomorrow.'” → “He said that he would come the next day.”
- Guided practice (10 min) — As a class, convert 5 direct-speech sentences to reported speech together on the board.
- Independent practice (8 min) — Students complete the Lesson 10 worksheet individually (change-to-reported-speech exercises, fill-in-the-blank forms, matching, sentence writing — answer key included).
- Wrap-up (5 min) — In pairs, students take turns saying a direct-speech sentence aloud and converting it orally.
Homework: Assign the self-grading quiz at the bottom of the Lesson 10 page.
Differentiation: Struggling students: statements only, using “said” as the reporting verb throughout. Advanced students: convert a short 3-line dialogue into a single reported-speech paragraph.
Conditionals — 40-Minute Class (Zero & First Conditional)
Learning objective: Students correctly identify and construct Zero Conditional (general truths) and First Conditional (real future possibility) sentences. Second and Third Conditional are best taught as a follow-up class — four new structures in one 40-minute period is too much to retain.
Materials: Board, Lesson 11: Conditionals (project or print), the Lesson 11 worksheet PDF
- Warm-up (5 min) — Ask: “If you heat ice, what happens?” Elicit “it melts,” write both halves on the board, and ask what tense each part uses.
- Presentation (15 min) — Teach Zero Conditional (If + Present Simple, Present Simple — general truths and scientific facts, e.g. “If you mix red and blue, you get purple”) and First Conditional (If + Present Simple, will + base verb — real future possibility) using the Lesson 11 examples.
- Guided practice (10 min) — As a class, complete 6 board sentences together (3 Zero, 3 First), discussing which type fits each situation.
- Independent practice (7 min) — Students attempt the Zero and First Conditional items on the Lesson 11 worksheet (the worksheet covers all four types — leave the Second and Third Conditional items for homework/the follow-up class).
- Wrap-up (3 min) — Quick oral check: call out a situation, students say which conditional type and give a sentence.
Homework: Read the Second and Third Conditional sections on the Lesson 11 page before the next class, and complete the remaining worksheet items.
Differentiation: Struggling students: Zero and First Conditional only. Advanced students: attempt writing one Second and one Third Conditional sentence unaided before checking the lesson page.
All 11 lessons now have a matching lesson plan. Next up as new grammar lessons are published: Perfect Continuous tenses, Gerunds/Infinitives, Question Tags, Comparatives/Superlatives.
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