CBSE Curriculum for Secondary School Certificate Examination (IX-X) English – Communicative (only class X) 2018-19

ENGLISH COMMUNICATIVE (Code No. 101) (CBSE)

CBSE SYLLABUS CLASS – X (2018-19)

SECTION – WISE WEIGHTAGE IN ENGLISH COMMUNICATIVE

Section

Total Weightage 80

Reading Skills

Writing Skills with Grammar

Literature Textbook and Extended Reading Text

TOTAL

Note: The Board examination will be of 80 marks, with a duration of three hours.

SECTION A: READING 20 Marks 50 Periods

This section will have two unseen passages of a total of 700-750 words as per the

details below :

Q.1: A Factual passage 300-350 words with eight Very Short Answer Type (VSA)

Questions. 8 marks

Q. 2: A Discur

sive passage of 350-400 words with four Short Answer Type Questions

of eight marks to test inference, evaluation and analysis and four VSA to

test vocabulary and comprehension (two VSA for vocabulary and two for

comprehension) 12 marks

SECTION B: WRITING AND GRAMMAR 30 Marks 60 Periods

Writing :-

Q. 3: Formal Letter (Complaints / Inquiry / Placing order / letter to the editor) in about 100-120 words. The questions will be thematically based on the Main Course Book. 8 marks

Q.4: Writing a short Story based on a given outline or cue/s in about 200-250 words. 10 marks

Grammar :-

The Grammar syllabus will include the following areas in class X.

1. Tenses

2. Modals

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

(iii) Relative clauses

7. Determiners

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 . 4 marks

Q. 6: Editing or Omission 4 marks

Q. 7: Sentences Re-ordering or Sentence Transformation in context. 4 marks

SECTION C: LITERATURE TEXTBOOK AND EXTENDED READING TEXT :30 Marks 60

Periods

Q. 8. One out of two extracts from prose / poetry / play for reference to context. Four Very Short Answer Questions: Two questions of one mark each for global comprehension and two questions of one mark each on interpretation.

4 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) 2×4 = 8 Marks

Q.10. One out of two long answer type questions to assess creativity, imagination and extrapolation beyond the text and across the texts. (100-120 words). 8marks

Q.11. One out of two Very Long Answer Question on theme or plot involving interpretation, inference and character, in about 200-250 words based on prescribed novel text

for extended reading. 10 Marks

Prescribed Books: Published by CBSE, New Delhi

CBSE INTERACT IN ENGLISH SERIES

1. Main Course Book .

2. Workbook .

3. Literature Reader .

EXTENDED READING TEXTS (either one):

a. The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) by Anne Frank ( uploaded on CBSE website)

b. The Story of My Life (1903) by Helen Keller ( unabridged edition)

NOTE: Teachers are advised to:

(i) Encourage classroom interaction among peers, students and teachers through activities such as role play, group work etc.

(ii) reduce teacher-talk time and keep it to the minimum,

(iii) take up questions for discussion to encourage pupils to participate and to marshal their ideas and express and defend their views, and

Besides measuring attainment, texts serve the dual purpose of diagnosing mistakes and areas of non- learning. To make evaluation a true index of learners’ attainment, each language skill is to be assessed through a judicious mixture of different types of questions.

Reading Section: Reading for comprehension, critical evaluation, inference and analysis are skills to be tested.

Grammar: Grammar items mentioned in the syllabus will be taught and assessed over a period of time. There will be no division of syllabus for Grammar.

Listening and Speaking Skills. 50 Periods

Textbooks

Literature Reader

CBSE PROSE

1. Two Gentlemen of Verona

4. A Shady Plot

2 Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger

5. PatolBabu

3. The Letter

6. Virtually True

CBSE POETRY

1. The Frog and the Nightingale

2. Ozymandias

3 . The Rime of Ancient Mariner

4. Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments

5. Snake

CBSE DRAMA

1. The Dear Departed

2. Julius Caesar

Main Course Book

1. Health and Medicine

4. Environment

2. Education

5. Travel and Tourism

3. Science

6. National Integration

Extended Reading Texts – (either one)

Diary of a Young Girl – 1947 June 12, 1942 to March 14, 1944 By Anne Frank (unabridged edition uploaded on CBSE website )
The Story of My Life – 1903, Chapters
1-14 By Helen Keller (unabridged edition)

Diary of a Young Girl – 1947 March 16, 1944 to August 01, 1944 By Anne Frank (unabridged edition , uploaded on CBSE website)
The Story of My Life – 1903 Chapters 15-23 By Helen Keller (unabridged edition)

WORK BOOK* – Suggested Break-up of Units for the purpose of classroom teaching

only – NOT FOR TESTING (see the following note).

Determiners

8 Comparison

2 Tenses

Subject-Verb Agreement

10 Nominalization

Non-Finites

11 Modals

Relatives

12 Active and Passive

Connectors

13 Reported

Speech

Conditionals

14 Prepositions

epetition

Class – X

English Communicative 2018-19 (Code No. 101)

SAQ 30-40

LAQ-II

VLAQ

Testing competencies/

VSAQ 1

100-120

200-250
words

Typology

words

Marks

learning outcomes

Mark

Words

(HOTS)

2 marks

8 marks

10 marks

Reading

Conceptual understanding,

Skills

decoding, analyzing,

—

inferring, interpreting and

Vocabulary

Creative

Expressing an opinion,

Writing

reasoning, justifying,

Skills and

illustrating, appropriacy

Grammar

of style and tone, using

appropriate format

—

and fluency. Applying

con¬ventions, using inte-

grated structures with

accuracy and fluency

Literature

Recalling, reasoning,

Textbook

appreciating, applying

and

literary conventions,

Extended

extrapolating, illustrating

Reading

and justifying etc.

Texts

Extracting relevant

information, identifying

the central theme and

sub themes, understanding

the writer’s message and

writing fluently.

Total

28 x 01

08 x 02

02 x 08 =

02 x 10 =

= 28 marks

= 16 marks

16 marks

20 marks

marks

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