CONTENT TOPICS Pages SYLLABUS 3-4 BLUE PRINT of question paper and TERM WISE SPLIT UP 5-6 SECTION A : Reading Passages 7 -16 SECTION B – WRITING AND GRAMMAR Writing – Letter Writing 17-19 Writing – Article Writing 20-23 Writing – Story Writing 24-25 SECTION B – WRITING AND GRAMMAR GRAMMAR 26-46 SECTION C – LITERATURE AND LONG READING TEXT Literature – FICTION 47-65 Literature – POETRY 66-91 Literature – DRAMA 92-107 SECTION C - LITERATURE AND LONG READING TEXT Long Reading Text (NOVEL) The Story of my Life 108-114 ENGLISH COMMUNICATIVE (Code No. 101)
Q. 2: A Discursive passage of 350-400 words with four short answer type questions to test inference, evaluation and analysis and four MCQs to test vocabulary. 12 marks SECTION B: WRITING & GRAMMAR 25 Q. 3: Letter to the Editor /article in about 100-120 words will make use of any visual / verbal stimulus and the question will be thematically based on the MCB. 5 marks Q.4: Writing a short story based on a given outline or cue/s in about 150-200 words. 10 marks The Grammar syllabus will include the following areas in classes IX & X.1. Tenses 2. Modals (have to/had to, must, should, need, ought to and their negative forms) 3. Use of passive voice 4. Subject – verb concord 5. Reporting (i) Commands and requests (ii) Statements (iii) Questions 6. Clauses: (i) Noun clauses (ii) Adverb clauses of condition and time (iii) Relative clauses 7. Determiners, and 8. Prepositions The above items may be tested through test types as given below: Q. 5: Gap filling with one or two words to test Prepositions, Articles, Conjunctions and Tenses. 3 marks Q. 6: Editing or Omission 4 marks Q. 7: Sentences reordering or Sentence Transformation in context. 3 marks SECTION C: LITERATURE TEXTBOOK AND EXTENDED READING TEXT: 25 Q. 8. One out of two extracts from prose / poetry / play for reference to context. Three very short answer questions. One mark in each extra will be for vocabulary. One question will be used for testing local and global comprehension and one question will be on interpretation. 3 marks Q. 9. Four short answer type questions from the Literature Reader to test local and global comprehension of theme and ideas (30-40 words each) 2x4 = 8 Marks Q.10. One out of two long answer type questions to assess how the values inherent in the text have been brought out. Creativity, imagination and extrapolation beyond the text and across the texts will be assessed. (80-100 words). 4 marks
Q.11. One out of two Very Long Answer Question on theme or plot involving interpretation, inference and character, in about 150-200 words based on prescribed novel. 10 Marks BLUE PRINT OF QUESTION PAPER (SA-I & SA-II) – X English Communicative 2016-17 (Code No. 101) Typology Testing competencies/learning outcomes VSAQ 1 mark SAQ 30-40 words 2 marks LAQ-I 80- 100 words 4 marks LAQ-II 5 marks VLAQ 150-200 words (HOTS) 10 marks Marks Reading Skills Conceptualunderstanding,decoding, analyzing,inferring, interpreting and vocabulary. 12 04 - - - 20 Creative Writing Skills and Grammar Expressing an opinion, reasoning, justifying, illustrating, appropriacyof style and tone, usingappropriate format andfluency. Applying conventions, usingintegrated structureswith accuracy andfluency. 10 - - 01 01 25 Literature Textbooks and Extended Reading Text Recalling, reasoning,appreciating, applyingliterary conventions,extrapolating,illustrating and justifying etc.Extracting relevantinformation, identifyingthe central andsub themes,understanding thewriter’s message andwriting fluently. 03 04 01 - 01 25 TOTAL 25x1= 25 marks 8x2=16 1x4=4 marks 1x5=5 marks 2x10=20 marks 70 Assessment of Speaking and Listening Skills Interaction, reasoning, diction, articulation, clarity, pronunciation and overall fluency 20 90 Marks ENGLISH COMMUNICATIVE TERM-WISE COURSE Summative Assessment (2016-17) 120
(Subject: __________________________________ ) Body of the letter (in 3-4 paragraphs) 1. Statement of the problem (Introductory) 2. Causes of the problem 3. Outcome of the problem 4. Suggestions/remedies 5. Conclusion Yours faithfully/Yours sincerely Sender’s name SAMPLE FORMAL LETTER Question: You are Saurabh Srivastava, a resident of Defence Colony Bagdogra, Siliguri. Your colony is facing the severe problem of supply of inadequate and poor quality of tap You decide to express your views and make the authorities aware of the situation by writing a letter to the Editor of The Siliguri Times, Siliguri. Write your letter in about 150 words. Answer: LETTER TO THE EDITOR Defence Colony Bagdogra 15th April 2016 The Editor The Siliguri Times Siliguri Dear Sir Subject: Inadequate and bad quality of water supply. Through the columns of your esteemed newspaper, I would like to draw the attention of the civic authorities to the bad quality and inadequate supply of tap water in our locality.
ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS Q1.Over the past few years there has been constant rise in Coaching Institutes and private tuition centers all over India .Write an article in about 150-200 words highlighting the exploitation of young minds that seek sincere counseling and proper direction. You are Mahesh/Mita a student of class IX of KendriyaVidyalaya, BHU Varanasi. Q.2. Students spend a lot of time in front of the TV. They watch advertisements selling various consumer products targeted at children. As a result, children demand the clothes, shoes, food etc. advertised on the TV. TV Advertisements and Children A flood of new TV advertisements leaves no doubt that children are a major focus of advertisers. In April-May of 2002 an estimated 35% of all TV ads were using children to attract consumer interest and a large proportion were targeting the child viewer specifically. According to our findings, almost 75% children in 8-15 age group say they want to own products advertised on TV. Asked to name their ten favourite ads, they named detergent and even airline ads rather than ads for toys, games, sweets or food products. Using the information provided here and using your own ideas, write an article for school magazine in about 125 words. Q.3.You are Upasana Dutta, President of ‘Save the Child Foundation’. You are a social activist working for the welfare of children in the developing world. As you travel to many developing countries, you have collected the following facts and then you decide to write an article to highlight the problem related to childhood. Using the information given below and your own ideas, write the article. (word limit: 100 to 120 words) Lost Childhood FACT SHEET In the developing world, more than one in three children do not have adequate shelter, one in five children does not have access to safe water and one in seven has no access to health services. As many as million children, majority of them girls, do not attend school. Two million children under the age of five die every year because they are not immunized with routine, commonplace vaccine. If just 0.5 percent of global military spending were diverted to immunization, every child in the world could be immunized for the next decade. Q.4.While reading the newspaper, the following news item caught your attention. Cut out the junk food
The mystery is unfolded for the narrator and he receives a mail from the real Sebastian who thanks him for rescuing him and wishes to meet him. EXTRACT COMPREHENSION QUESTION EXERCISES [A] “Sebastian Shultz, the boy I’d got to know so well recently, had apparently been in a coma for all that time. I felt nervous and shivery. It didn’t make any sense at all.” (a) How does the narrator know Sebastian? (b) What had happened to him? (c) What is the meaning of the word ‘shivery’? Answers. (a) The narrator knows Sebastian as a computer character whom he has met in different psycho-drive games. (b) Sebastian Shultz had met an accident and had gone to the state of coma. (c) frightened [B] “‘Can we have one last try’ it said, ‘I think the helicopter was the right idea. There’s got to be some kind of an accident… go into ‘Warzone’. If this doesn’t work I won’t bother you again. Cheers, Seb.” (a) What did Sebastian want to have a last try for? (b) What is the ‘War zone’? (c) What does Sebastian mean by- I won’t bother you again? Answers. (a) Sebastian wanted the narrator to have a last try in rescuing him by attempting the psycho-drive game named ‘War Zone’. (b) War zone is a psycho-drive computer game in which the target of the player is to safely pass through the battle field. (c) Sebastian means that he would not disturb the narrator for helping him in getting him rescued any more if this attempt fails. [C] “He jumped in, turned the ignition key and revved the engine. ‘Jump in’. I climbed into the passenger seat and we were off.” (a) Who are ‘we’ in these lines? (b) Where are they off to? (c) What is the meaning of the word- ‘revved’? Answers. (a) The narrator and Sebastian Shultz are ‘we’ in the lines. (b) They are off to a grounded helicopter which is landed on the other side of the ‘war zone’ in the computer game ‘War Zone’. (c) to prepare/to start.
b) He desires immediate freedom of PubliusCimber. c) Slavery. ADDITIONAL EXTRACT QUESTIONS 1. ‘I shall not find myself so apt to die: No place will please me so, no mean of death, As here by Caesar and by you cut off, The choice and master spirits of this age.’ a) Who is the speaker and to whom is he talking to? b) Who has been killed? c) Who are ‘the choice and master spirits of this age’ according to the speaker? 2. ‘You know not what you do: do not consent That Antony speak in his funeral: Know you how much the people may be moved’ By that which he will utter? a) Who is the speaker? b) What is his objection? c) What does the word ‘utter’ mean? 3. ‘Pardon me, thou bleeding of earth, That Iam meek and gentle with these butchers! Thou are the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times.’ a) Who is the speaker? b) Why is he meek and gentle with the butchers? c) Give the meaning of the word’butcher’? 4. ‘But here’s a parchment with the seal of Caesar; I it in his closet is his will: Let but the commons here this testament— Which pardon me; I do not mean to read – a) What do you mean by ‘parchment’? b) Why Antony wants to read it? c) What is listeners’ reaction afterwards? SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS(30-40 WORDS EACH) 1. How do the heavens ‘blaze forth’ the death of Julius Caesar?