Class - X

Language Competencies
Theme Genre Source / Author’s
Unit Reading Text Written Oral
Vocabulary Grammar Discourses Discourses
Name
Personality Devel-

A. Attitude is Altitude Biography www.dailymail.co.uk Adjectives; Defining and non- Biographical Debate
1 synonyms; one- defining relative sketch; story
opment

B. Every Success Story Is Also Narrative

word substitutes clauses
a Story of Great Failures Essay
C. I will Do It Biography Sudha Murthy

A. The Dear Departed (Part - I) Play W.S. Houghton Compound Articles; compound Letter; Role - play
adjectives; words prepositional phrases; conversion of
Humour

W.S. Houghton
Wit and

2 B. The Dear Departed (Part - II) Play

often confused; simple past and a play into a
C. The Brave Potter Folk Tale Marguerite Siek Idiomatic present perfect story
expressions
Films and Theatre Human Relations

A. The Journey Narrative Y.D. Thongchi

Compound Simple past and past Essay Description;
B. Another Woman Poem Ms. Imtiaz Dharker words- perfect tense short talk
3 C. The Never-Never Nest Play Cedric Mount hyphenated,
open and closed
compounds

Collocations; Linkers; adjectives; Review on a Short talk

A. Rendezvous with Ray Essay Frontline
4 One word prepositions; verb film or TV
B. Maya Bazaar Review The Hindu substitution; forms-past perfect, programme ;
C. A Tribute Essay _____ binomials simple past; modals reply letter;
skit; report

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 Language Competencies

Theme
Unit Genre Source /
Reading Text Written Oral
Author’s Name Vocabulary Grammar
Agrarian Issues Discourses Discourses
Social Issues /

Waman G. Hoval Compound Adverbial Invitation ;

A. The Storeyed House (Part - I) Story Speech
adjectives; Phrasal clauses news report;
B. The Storeyed House (Part - II) Story Waman G. Hoval verbs; Idioms essay
5
C. Abandoned Poem Suraya Nasim

A. Environment Interview www.gbmna.com Synonyms; Non-finite clauses; Interview;

Bio-diversity

Debate
appropriate forms of reported speech; description
B. Or will the Dreamer Wake? Poem M. Chevalier
6 the words adjectives; (write up)
C. A Tale of Three Villages Essay quantifiers - no, any,
____
all, some, each, several
and every
A. My Childhood Auto Abdul Kalam
Nation and

Short talk;
Diversity

biography Synonyms; Linkers ,passive voice Diary entry, reply

7 ___ role -play;
B. A Plea for India Poem without agent, letter, group
C. Unity in Diversity in India Essay ___ discussion
Human Rights

A. Jamaican Fragment Narrative A.L. Hendricks Synonyms; similes -- Essay; speech Debate;
B. Once upon a Time Poem Gabriel Okara and metaphors speech
8 C. What Is My Name? Story P.Satyavathi

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