English(First Language) Syllabus for Class 10 2021-2022 

a)

A Coursebook in English (Kumarbharati)

 

1)

Detailed Study

a) Prose :  About 64 pages of literary and non-literary

(informative) text

(excluding notes, illustrations, tasks, etc.)

b) PoetryAbout 250 lines.

Non-detailed study : A selection of literary texts (short stories, one act play)

b)

Grammar :

Sr. No.

Items

Specification

1

Revision of grammatical

items studied up to

Std VIII.

 

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2

different kinds of sentences

Simple, Compound, Complex

3

different kinds of

Principal, Co-ordinate, Sub-ordinate

4

The Tenses

a) Continuous

i) Present Perfect ii) Present Perfect

  1. Past Perfect

  2. Future with will/shall and ‘going to’

b) Continuous

Sequence of Tenses.

4

Articles

a, an, the (advanced level)

5

prepositions

different uses

8

Word

Formation

Nouns/Adjectives/Verbs/Adverbs

9

Voice

Statements, questions, negatives, indirect object

10

Question

formation

Tag questions

11

Reported

Speech

Statements, questions, commands, requests,

exclamation

12

Punctuation

Usage

13

Non-finites

Infinitives, Gerunds, Participles

14

Modal

Auxiliaries

Uses of ‘can’, ‘may’, ‘might’, etc

15

Conditionals

Unreal conditions in the present/past Possible

conditions in the future

The following weightage is to be given to the various aspects of the syllabus.

 

1

Reading Skill (Textual and non-textual)

40%

2

Grammar

15%

3

Writing skill

25%

4

Oral test

20%