Lighthouse: English Course Book | ICSE | Class Seventh | First Edition | By Pearson

The Lighthouse Series, designed on the basis of the new ICSE syllabus, is a set of course books for grades 1 to 8. The series guides the learner into learning language through the study of literature. Each course book takes a progressive approach to learning, with the chapters broken up into three levels of learning:

Elementary, intermediate and advanced. The series features a set of challenging and exciting texts from a wide range of literary genres, periods and forms, followed by a range of activities and exercises that enable learning in the areas of comprehension, vocabulary, listening and speaking, grammar usage and writing. The course books are supplemented by practice books that provide sufficient material to reinforce the learning from the course books.

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Features

Table of Contents1. The Emergence of a Zoo—Gerald Durrell

2. If—Rudyard Kipling

3. Feathered Friend—Arthur C. Clarke

4. Kikeri—Susan Coolidge

5. The Nun’s Priest’s Tale—Geoffrey Chaucer

6. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground—Lewis Carroll

7. Tea Off!—Siddharth Mehta

8. of the Internal Economy of Dothboys’ Hall—Charles Dickens

9. Rain—Anjum Hasan

10. Thank You, Jeeves—P.G. Wodehouse

11. Long Journeys—Shilpa Vijayakrishnan

12. The Lady of Shalott—Alfred Lord Tennyson

13. The Hobbit—J.R.R. Tolkien

14. How Pearl Button was Kidnapped—Katherine Mansfield

15. Scavenger Hunt—C.G. Salamander and Rajiv Eipe

16. The Highwayman—Alfred Noyes.