(Syllabus) CBSE Class 10th - English: Year 2013

Syllabus CBSE Class 10th: English Communicative

Note:
1. The total weightage assigned to Summative Assessment (SA I&II) is 60%. The total weightage assigned to Formative Assessment (FA1, 2, 3, &4) is 40%. Out of the 40% assigned to Formative Assessment, 10% weightage is assigned to conversation skills (5% each in Term I&II) and 10% weightage to the Reading Project (at least 1 Book is to be read in each term and the Project will carry a weightage of 5% in each term)

2. The Summative Assessment I and Summative Assessment II is for ninety marks each. The weighatge assigned to Summative Assessment I is 30% and the weightage assigned to Summative Assessment II is 30%.

SECTION A: READING : 20 Marks

Qs 1-3 The reading section will have three unseen texts as shown below:

The total length of the three passages will be between 850 - 1100 words. There will be at least 5 marks for assessing vocabulary. All questions on vocabulary will not be from the same passage. Care should be taken to cover all the three text types, ie factual, discursive and literary while selecting the passages. A poem may or may not be used as one of the three texts. Text I will be either factual or discursive. Apart from a poem, prose literary texts may include excerpts from authentic literature such as short story, autobiography, biography, travelogue, novel etc. Whenever a poem or a prose literary text is used, the other two texts should be discursive and factual, thus covering all the three text types.

SECTION B: WRITING: 25 Marks

The writing section comprises four writing tasks as indicated below.
Q. 4 A short composition of upto 50 words in the form of a Notice, Message or Diary Entry. 4 Marks Questions 4 & 5 will assess students' skill of expressing ideas in clear and grammatically correct English, presenting ideas coherently and concisely, writing a clear description, a clear account of events, expanding notes into a piece of writing, transcoding information from one form to another or using a style appropriate for a notice, message or diary entry.

Q. 5 A composition of upto 100 words in the form of Biographical sketch, Data Interpretation, Dialogue writing or Description (people, Objects or Events) : 6 Mark

Q. 6 An extended writing task of length upto 120 words in the form of a Formal/Informal Letter or Email. The long piece of writing will assess the use of appropriate style, language, content and expression.: 7 Marks

Q. 7 An extended writing task of length upto 150 words in the form of an Article, Speech, Report or Story.: 8 Marks

Students' skill in expressing ideas in clear and grammatically correct English, planning, organising an presenting ideas coherently by introducing, developing and concluding a topic, comparing and contrasting ideas and arriving at a conclusion, presenting an argument with supporting examples, using an appropriate style and format and expanding notes into longer pieces of writing and creative expression of ideas will be assessed.

Qs 6 & 7 will make use of a visual/ verbal stimulus.
Important Note on Format and Word Limit:
• Format will not carry any separate marks and in most cases, format will be given in the questions paper.
• The word limit given is the suggested minimum word limit. No candidate may be penalised for writing more or less than the suggested word limit provided the topic is covered and adequately. Stress should be on content, expression, coherence and relevance of the content presented.

SECTION C: GRAMMAR : 20 Marks

This section will assess Grammar items in context for 20 Marks. It will carry 5 questionsof 4 marks each. Questions 8 & 9 will have Multiple Choice Questions. The test types for MCQs include the following:
• Gap filling
• Sentence completion
• Dialogue completion

Questions 10,11 & 12 will be based on response supplied by students (Supply Type). The test types will include the following:
• Sentence reordering
• Editing
• Omission
• Sentence transformation

Questions 8 to 12 will test grammar items which have been dealt with in class IX. Different structures such as verb forms, sentence structure, connectors, determiners, pronouns, prepositions, clauses, phrases etc., can be tested through formative assessment over a period of time. As far as the summative assessment is concerned, it will recycle grammar items learnt over a period of time and will test them in context. Tests types used will include gap-filling, cloze (gap filling exercise with blanks at regular intervals), sentence completion, recording word groups into sentences, editing, dialogue-completion and sentence-transformation.