Course Structure & Marks Distribution
Total Marks: 80 (Theory) + 20 (Internal Assessment)
Duration: 3 hours
Internal Assessment: 20 marks (includes periodic tests, speaking and listening skills, and project work)
🧭 Section-wise Weightage
Section Title Marks Periods
A Reading Skills 20 40
B Writing Skills & Grammar 20 40
C Language through Literature 40 50
Total 80
📖 Section A: Reading Skills (20 Marks)
- Reading Comprehension through Unseen Passages (20 marks)
Two passages of 600-700 words in total
Discursive Passage: 400-450 words
Case-based Factual Passage: 200-250 words (may include visual inputs like statistical data or charts)
✍️ Section B: Writing Skills and Grammar (20 Marks)
- Writing Skills (12 marks)
Short Writing Tasks:
Notice
Advertisement
Poster
Formal Invitation and Reply
Letter to the Editor
Job Application with Resume
Article Writing
Report Writing
Long Writing Tasks:
Speech Writing
Debate Writing
- Grammar (8 marks)
Tenses
Modals
Subject-Verb Concord
Reported Speech
Commands and Requests
Statements and Questions
Clauses: Noun, Adjective, and Adverb
Determiners
Prepositions
Conjunctions
📚 Section C: Language through Literature (40 Marks)
- First Flight (Prose and Poetry)
Prose:
A Letter to God
Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Two Stories About Flying
From the Diary of Anne Frank
The Hundred Dresses – I
The Hundred Dresses – II
Glimpses of India
Mijbil the Otter
Madam Rides the Bus
The Sermon at Benares
The Proposal
Poetry:
Dust of Snow
Fire and Ice
A Tiger in the Zoo
How to Tell Wild Animals
The Ball Poem
Amanda!
The Trees
Fog
The Tale of Custard the Dragon
For Anne Gregory
- Footprints Without Feet (Supplementary Reader)
The Making of a Scientist
The Necklace
The Hack Driver
Bholi
The Book that Saved the Earth
📝 Internal Assessment (20 Marks)
Periodic Tests: 10 marks
Speaking and Listening Skills: 5 marks
Project Work: 5 marks