ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (CODE NO.

184)
SYLLABUS CLASS –X (2018-19)
SECTION WISE WEIGHTAGE

Section Weightage
A Reading Skills 20
B Writing Skills with Grammar 30
C Literature Textbook and supplementary text 30
Total 80

TERM WISE SYLLABUS

FIRST TERM (APIRL 2018 TO SEPTEMBER 2018)

TEXT BOOK SUPPLYMENTARY LANGUAGE SKILLS GRAMMAR

FIRST FLIGHT
Ch. 1: A Letter Of God
Poems: Dust Of Snow Fire And
Ice
Ch.2: Nelson Mandela : Long
walk to freedom
POEM: Tiger in the Zoo
READER:
FOOTPRINTS
WITHOUT FEET
Ch.1: A Triumph OF WRITING : Story based on verbal Verb in the indefinite tense
Surgery and visual input. (Present and past )
Usage of Prepositions: of ,
LISTENING: A variety of exercises from, with , in ,on ,at , into,
such as spotting the error , oral across, along , beside ,between,
compression exercise, vocabulary among etc
(word replacement)
Exercise using paragraph form the
lesson.
Teacher may use hard outs wherever
possible.
SPEKING: Holding conversation Use of Can/Could , Shall
in pairs/groups. (WH questions could /Should, Will/Would,
be reinforced by talking about integrated exercise for error
surroundings.) correction ( With grammar
topics done so far)
SUMMER VACATION
Read The Prescribed Novel
Diary Of A Young Girl 1947 (June 12, 1942 to March 14, 1944)
Or
The Story of My Life 1903 (Chapter 1-14)

Write the character sketch of any five characters you have liked to your Home Work Assignment Notebook.
Ch.3: Two Stories about Flying Ch.2: The Thief’s Story WRITING: Letter to Editor- Usage of must, ought to, need
i) His First Flight Ch.3: The Midnight complaining about shortage of water to, have to , had to, and their
ii) The Black Aero Visitor in your area and need to raise public negative forms. Determiners
plane. Use Cal Lab for the awareness about the need to save and conjunctions integrated
Ch.4: From the Diary of Anne lessons to promote water. grammar practices with all
Frank comprehension through Story writing: With a sentence / topics covered so far. Clauses:
Poems: The Ball Poem visual/ verbal input Phrase given as beginning to the noun, adverbs of time and
How to tell Wild Animals CH.4: A Question of story. condition , relative clause.
Ch.5: The Hundred Dresses-I Trust (Suggested use of Reading Skills: Sequencing of Reported Speech:
Ch.6: The Hundred Dresses-II CAL LAB) sentences of sentences to complete a Statements, commands and
Poems: Amanda Ch.5: Footprint Without meaningful story requests, interrogative
 Animals Feet Letter to the Editor: Insanitary sentences.
conditions in your locality-garbage
accumulation, flies and mosquitoes, Integrated grammar practice
diseases haw dhow citizens can play
a vital role in improving the Jumble sentences from the text
condition. for practices.
Article writing: Digital India,
Judicious use of Gadgets.
Revision of writing skills and syllabus covered
Mid Term Exams
SECOND TERM (OCTOBER 2018 TO NOVEMBER 2018)
TEXT BOOK SUPPLEMENTARY LANGUAGE SKILLS GRAMMAR
FIST FLIGHT READER;
FOOTPRINTS
WIHOUT FEET
Ch.7 Glimpses of India Ch.6: The making of a Writing Skills- Use of a , an ,the
Ch.8 : Mijbil the otter scientist Article Writing :  Reordering of words to
Ch.7: The Necklace  Tourism in India make meaningful
Ch.8: The Hack Driver sentences.
CH.9: Madam Rides The Bus
POEMS:
Trees
Fog
Ch.10: The Sermon at Benaras
CH. 11: The Proposal
POEMS:
Tale Of Custard The Dragon
For Anne Gregory
Revision of Chapters done
through Reference to context,
short and long questions to
promote creativity, imagination
and extrapolation beyond the
text.
Revision of Chapters through
very short questions
Revision of syllabus form text book and support material for Periodic Tests.
March 2019
Ch. : Bholi  Taking care of Animals Practice of Determiners
Ch. 10 The Book that Listening Skills: Short Passage read
saved the Earth out loudly followed by questions to
be done in hand-outs.
Reading Skills: Passages form
different sources eg.
Newspaper, Texts, Magazines could
be used.
Speaking Skills: Holding
conversations in pairs and groups on
a given topic.
(Classroom or School Situation)
December 2018 to February 2019
Revision of Chapters Listening Skills: Listening to pieces Transformation of sentences:
though short questions of conversation and answering Active-Passive voice, Reported
and long questions to multiple choice questions. Speech, Gap Filling exercise
promote creativity, Speaking Skills: Speaking for a
Imagination and minute on topics relevant to the lives
extrapolation beyond the of students and their immediate
text environment.
Writing Skills: Letter to the
Commissioner of Municipal
Corporation about potholed and
broken roads in the colony.
Article Writing: Education and
Health: Keys to development.
Revision though short Revision of Writing Skills on Integrated grammar practice.
questions Current Topics of social relevance
Boards Exams