OFFICIAL SYLLABUS
English(Theory)
SECTION A: READING
Two unseen passages of a total of 500 words with a variety of questions including 4 marks for vocabulary. Only prose passages will be used. One will be factual and the other will be literary.
Passage 1 - 200 words - Four or five comprehension questions.
Passage 2 - 300 words -Four or five comprehension questions and two questions on vocabulary. Marks for vocabulary will not exceed 4 marks.
SECTION B: WRITING
1. Letter Writing - One letter based on provided verbal stimulus and context. Type of letter : Informal: Personal such as to family and friends. Formal: Letter of complaints, inquiries, requests, and applications.
2. Writing a short paragraph on a given outline/topic in about 60 words
3. Composition: A short writing task based on a verbal and/or visual stimulus. (diagram, picture, graph, map, chart, table, flow chart, etc.) Maximum words 80
SECTION C: GRAMMER
A variety of short questions involving the use of particular structures within a context. Test types used will include cloze, gap-filling, sentence-completion, sentence-reordering, dialogue-completion, and sentence-transformation (including combining sentences). The Grammar syllabus will include the following areas for teaching:
1. Use of non-finite.
2. Sentence connectors: as, since, while, then, just because, just, until.
3. Clauses with what, where, and how.
4. Past Tense.
5. Modals: can, could, may, must, might.
SECTION D: TEXTBOOKS
First Flight - Textbook for Class X
Prose
1. Two extracts from different prose lessons included in Textbook (Approximately 100 words each)
2. These extracts chosen from different lessons will be literary and discursive in nature Each extract will be of 5 marks. One mark in each extract will be for vocabulary. marks in each passage will be used for testing local and global comprehension besides a question on interpretation.
3. One out of two questions extrapolative in nature based on any one of the prose lessons from Textbook to be answered in about 80 words.
4. One out of two questions on Drama Text (local and global comprehension question)(30-40 words)
Poetry
1. One extract from a poem from the prescribed reader followed by two or three questions to test the local and global comprehension of the set text. The extract will carry four marks.
2. Two out of three short answer-type questions on interpretation of themes and ideas contained in the poems to be answered in 30-40 words each.
Foot Prints without Feet - Supplementary Reader for Class X
1. One out of two questions from Supplementary Reader to interpret, evaluate and analyse character, plot or situations occurring in the lessons to be answered in about 100 words.
2. One out of two short answer type questions of interpretative and evaluative nature based on lessons to be answered in 30-40 words
3. One out of two short answer type questions based on factual aspects of the lessons to be answered in 20-30 words.
Prescribed Books
1. First Flight
2. Foot Prints without Feet
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