CLASS - X ENGLISH SYLLABUS GRID

Personality Development
Wit and
Humour

Films and Theatre Human Relations

Unit

Theme

LANGUAGE COMPETENCIES
Reading Texts

Genres

Source / Authors
Grammar

Name

Vocabulary

Adjectives;
synonyms; oneword substitutes

Defining and nondefining relative

clauses

Irregular plurals;
exclamations/
interjections;
compound
adjectives; idioms

Articles; compound
prepositional phrases;
its time +simple past
verb

A. Attitude is Altitude
B. Every Success Story Is Also
a Story of Great Failures
C. I will Do It

Biography
Essay

www.dailymail.co.uk

Biography

Sudha Murthy

A. The Dear Departed (Part - I)

B. The Dear Departed (Part - II)
C. The Brave Potter

Play
Play
Folk Tale

W.S. Houghton

A. The Journey
B. Another Woman
C. The Never-Never Nest

Narrative
Poem
Play

Y.D. Thongchi

A. Rendezvous with Ray

B. Maya Bazaar
C. A Tribute

Essay
Review
Essay

Frontline

Shiv Khera

W.S. Houghton
Marguerite Siek

Ms. Imtiaz Dharker

Cedric Mount

The Hindu
_____

AP SCERT

Written
Oral
Discourses Discourses

Biographical
sketch;essay

Debate

Letter; story

Funny
incident/
jokes

Compound
wordshyphenated and
reduplicate words

Simple past and past

perfect tense

Essay,report;

Debate;

Collocations;
One word
substitution;
suffixes and
prefixes; binomials

Linkers; adjectives;
prepositions; verb
forms-past perfect,
simple past; modals

Review on a
film or TV
programme ;
reply letter;
skit

Speech

English Syllabus

Theme
Social Issues /
Agrarian Issues

Source /
Authors Name
Waman G. Hoval

Discourses

Contractions;
adverbial clauses;

Letter ;
news report;
essay.

Non-finite clauses,
reported speech,
adjectives,

Interview,
conversation

A. Environment
B. Or will the Dreamer Wake?
C. A Tale of Three Villages

A. My Childhood
A Plea for India

Discourses

Compound
adjectives; Phrasal
verbs; Idioms;

Synonyms;
Interview www.gbmna.com appropriate forms of
the words;
Poem
M. Chevalier
Essay
____

B.

Oral

Grammar

Story
Story
Poem

Waman G. Hoval

Written

Vocabulary

Bio-diversity

Genres

Nation and
Diversity

Reading Texts

A. The Storeyed House (Part - I)

B. The Storeyed House (Part - II)
C. Abandoned

Human Rights

Unit

LANGUAGE COMPETENCIES

Speech;
debate

Suraya Nasim

Auto
Abdul Kalam
biography
___
Poem

Synonyms;

Linkers ,passive voice

without agent,

Diary entry, reply

letter,

Group
discussion

Role play,
group
discussion

___

C. Unity in Diversity in India

Essay

A. Jamaican Fragment
B. Once upon a Time
C. What Is My Name?

Narrative A.L. Hendricks

Poem
Gabriel Okara
Story
P.Satyavathi

AP SCERT

Similes and
metaphors;
prefixes and
suffixes.

Simple past
and the present
perfect.

English Syllabus

Essay;
translation;
report

Speech;