Official Syllabus
1. Listening and Speaking
Listen to a range of texts such as stories, poems, narratives, and lectures,s, etc. for aural/written comprehension.
Listen and comprehend issues/topics raised in spoken texts (public address, guest speaker, televised interview, Social media/internet videos) and ask for clarification or elaboration of ideas.
Group discussions, debates, speech, drama, presentations, etc. (use of graphics, images, music, sound, and visual displays in presentations.)
Analyze and evaluate the use of language in different contexts (newspapers, television, billboards, and advertising campaigns) and its interpretation.
Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks. e.g.
(i) tone
(ii) gestures
(iii) stress
(iv) facial expressions
(v) body language
(vi) voice modulation
(vii) Dictation of Chunks of language.
2. Reading
Texts (Literary and Nonliterary) covering different themes and registers for comprehension and inference. The themes may include:
(i) Self, Family, Home, Friends
(ii) Neighbourhood and Community at large
(iii) The Nation - diversity (socio-cultural, religious, and ethnic, as well as linguistic), heritage
(iv) Myths/legends/folktales
(v) The World - India's neighbors and other countries (their cultures, literature, and customs)
(vi) Adventure, Imagination, and creativity
(vii) Sports and Yoga
(viii) Issues relating to Adolescence
(ix) Science and Technology
(x) Peace and Harmony
(xi) Travel and Tourism
(xii) Mass Media
(xiii) Art and Culture
(xiv) Health and Reproductive health
(xv) Experience of children
(xvi) Personalities & achievers
(xvii) Environmental concerns - water conservation, cleanliness, and sanitation
(xviii) Safety - personal safety & awareness about child abuse, conservation energy
Extensive and intensive reading of the texts
3. Writing
(i) Simple messages, invitations, short paragraphs, letters (formal and informal) applications
(ii) Short compositions based on pictures
(iii) Simple narrative and descriptive pieces, etc.
(iv) Creative writing: stories, poems, dialogues, etc.
(v) Organise and structure thoughts in writing.
(vi) Organise and structure meaningful sentences in a sequential manner.
(vii) Use of linkers such as ‘firstly’, ‘then’, ‘later’, ‘finally’, etc. to link sentences to indicate the passage of time and provide a sense of closure.
(viii) Age-appropriate use of words and phrases
(ix) Follow the process approach to writing i.e. planning, revising, reviewing, editing, rewriting.
4. Grammar and Vocabulary
(i) Pronouns in the proper case, reflexive pronouns, pronoun number, and person, pronoun-antecedent agreement to include indefinite pronouns.
(ii) Subject-verb agreement with intervening phrases and clauses.
(iii) Transitive and intransitive verbs.
(iv) Tenses to convey time, sequence, state, and condition.
(v) Recognition of correct and incorrect /inappropriate shifts in verb tense.
(vi) Vocabulary in context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
(vii) Age-appropriate affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word.
(viii) Dictionary and reference materials, print, digital and tactile, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.
(ix) Figures of speech in context.
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