WELCOME TO ALL STUDENTS OF 10th  CLASS

SYLLABUS FOR 10 CLASS FIRST LANGUAGE ENGLISH AS PER BOARD GUIDELINE

A)	Course book in English (Kumarbharati) std. X
1	a)     Prose : About 64 pages of literary and non-literary (informative) text (excluding notes illustrations, tasks etc.
2	b)     Poetry: About 250 lines. Non-detailed study : A selection of literary texts (short stories, one act play)
B)	Grammar

Sr. No.	Items	Specification
1	Grammatical items studied up to std. VIII.	----------------------------
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) Past Perfect iii) Future with will/shall and ‘going to’ b) Continuous Sequence of Tenses.
5	Articles	a, an, the (advanced level)
6	Prepositions	Different uses
7	Word Formation	Nouns/Adjectives/Verbs/Adverbs
8	Voice	Statements, questions, negatives, indirect object
9	Question Formation	a) Yes/No question b) ‘Wh’+ question
10	Reported Speech	Statements, questions, commands, requests,
11	Punctuation	Usage
12	Non-finites	Infinitives, Gerunds, Participles
13	Modal Auxiliaries	Uses of ‘can’, ‘may’, ‘might’, etc.

Weightage to be given at Std. IX and X

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

1	1 Reading Skill (Textual and non-textual)	40%
2	Grammar	15%
3	Writing skill	25%
4	Oral test	20%