ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (Code No.
184)
CLASS – X
2023-24
Section A
Reading Skills
I. Reading Comprehension through Unseen Passage 20 Marks
1. Discursive passage of 400-450 words. (10 marks)
2. Case-based factual passage of 200-250 words.(10 marks)
Section B
II. Grammar Writing Skills and Grammar 10 Marks
Gap Filling/ Editing/Transformation exercises. 10 out of 12 questions will have to be attempted.
1. Determiners
2. Tenses
3. Modals
4. Subject – verb concord
5. Reported speech
Commands and requests
Statements
Questions
III. Writing Skills
1. Writing a Formal Letter based on a given situation, in 100-120 words. 1 out of 2 questions is to be
answered. 5 marks
2. Writing an Analytical Paragraph in100-120 words on a given Map / Chart / Graph / Cue/ s .
Section C
IV. Literature
1. FIRST FLIGHT
A. Prose
i. A Letter to God
ii. Nelson Mandela - Long Walk to Freedom
iii. Two Stories About Flying
iv. From the Diary of Anne Frank
v. Glimpses of India
vi. Mijbil the Otter
vii. Madam Rides the Bus
viii. The Sermon at Benares
ix. The Proposal (Play)
B. Poems
1. Dust of Snow
2. Fire and Ice
3. A Tiger in the Zoo
4. How to Tell Wild Animals
5. The Ball Poem
6. Amanda!
7. The Trees
8. Fog
9. The Tale of Custard the Dragon
10. For Anne Gregory
FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET
1. A Triumph of Surgery
2. The Thief's Story
3. The Midnight Visitor
4. A Question of Trust
5. Footprints Without Feet
6. The Making of a Scientist
7. The Necklace
8. Bholi
9. The Book that Saved the Earth
