Lesson Focus

This unit is about being a responsible citizen. It covers topics like good manners, preventing vandalism, following rules, and performing good deeds.

Key Vocabulary to Master

• Responsibility: discipline, vandalism, offence, deliberately, punishable, consequences, community.

• Good Deeds: responsible, thoughtful, donate, admired.

Grammar Focuses

1. Punctuation (Very Important!): This unit revises all key punctuation marks.

• Full Stop (.): Ends a sentence.

• Question Mark (?): Ends a direct question.

• Exclamation Mark (!): Shows strong feeling (surprise, excitement).

• Comma (,): Separates items in a list.

• Apostrophe ('): For contractions (e.g., it's for it is) and possession (e.g., Chamindu's bag).

• Inverted Commas / Quotation Marks (“ ”): To show direct speech.

1. Modals of Obligation and Advice:

• must / must not: For strong obligation or rules (e.g., "You must wear a helmet.").

• should / should not: For giving advice (e.g., "You should help others.").

• ought to: Similar to 'should', for moral duty.

1. All Past Tenses (Revision): This unit expects you to be comfortable with all four past tense forms to narrate events.

Important Points for the O/L Exam

• Paper I (Writing):

  • Essay: Be prepared for a topic like "My Responsibilities as a Student" or "How We Can Protect Public Property."

  • Notice/Letter: You might be asked to write a notice about a community project (like a Shramadana).

• Paper II (Grammar & Reading):

  • Punctuation questions are very common. You may be asked to rewrite a paragraph with the correct punctuation.

  • Fill-in-the-blanks questions often test your knowledge of past tense verbs and modals.

Study Tips & Tricks

• Practice Punctuation: Find a short paragraph in a newspaper and write it down. Then, compare your version with the original, checking every comma and full stop.

• Active Revision: Look at the picture story in the workbook (Activity 8). Write your own story for it using the Simple Past and Past Continuous tenses.

• Modal Sentences: Write five rules for the school library using must, must not, and should. This will help you remember their use.