Section-Wise Weightage English Language and Literature

Section A: Reading (20 Marks)

This section will have two reading passages as per the details below:

• A Factual passage 300-350 words with eight Objective Type Questions (including Multiple Choice Questions). (8 marks)
• A Discursive passage of 350-400 words with four Short Answer Type Questions to test inference, evaluation and analysis with four Objective Type Questions (including Multiple Choice Questions) to test vocabulary. (12 marks)

Section B: Writing and Grammar (30 Marks)

• Writing a diary/article in about 100–120 words using visual or verbal cue/s. The questions will be thematically based on the prescribed books. (8 marks)
• Writing a short story based on a given outline or cue/s in about 150–200 words. (10 marks)

 The Grammar syllabus will include the following areas:

• Tenses
• Modals
• Use of passive voice
• Subject-verb concord
• Reporting
• Commands and requests
• Statements
• Questions
• Clauses
  • Noun clauses
  • Adverb clauses of condition and time
  • Relative clauses
• Determiners
• Prepositions

Section C: Literature Textbook (30 Marks)

• One out of two extracts from prose/poetry/play for reference to the context. Four Objective Type Questions: two questions of one mark each on global comprehension and two questions of one mark each for interpretation. (1×4=4 marks)
• Four Short Answer Type Questions from BEEHIVE AND MOMENTS (3 questions out of four from BEEHIVE and 2 questions out of three from MOMENTS) to test local and global comprehension of theme and ideas (to be answered in 30-40 words each) (2x5=10 marks)
• One out two long answer type questions from the book BEEHIVE to assess creativity, imagination and extrapolation beyond the text and across the texts. (to be answered in 100-150 words each) (8 marks)
• One out of two Long Answer Questions from the book MOMENTS on theme or plot involving interpretation, extrapolation beyond the text and inference or character sketch in about (100-150 words).  (8 Marks)

TextBooks

Literature Readers (Beehive)

Prose

• The Fun They Had
• The Sound of Music
• The Little Girl
• A Truly Beautiful Mind
• The Snake and the Mirror
• My Childhood
• Packing
• Reach for the Top
• The Bond of Love
• Kathmandu
• If I were you

Poetry

• The Road Not Taken
• Wind
• Rain on the Roof
• The Lake Isle of Innisfree
• A Legend of the Northland
• No Men Are Foreign
• The Duck and the Kangaroo
• On Killing a Tree
• The Snake Trying
• A Slumber did My Spirit Seal

Supplementary Reader (Moments)

• The Lost Child
• The Adventures of Toto
• Iswaran the Storyteller
• In the Kingdom of Fools
• The Happy Prince
• Weathering the Storm in Ersama
• The Last leaf
• A House is Not a Home
• The Accidental
• The Beggar