INDIAN SCHOOL AL GHUBRA, MUSCAT

PRE-BOARD EXAMINATION- I: 2023-24

CLASS: X ENGLISH COMMUNICATIVE (101)

Time Allowed: 3 hours Maximum Marks: 80

SYLLABUS/PORTION TO BE EXAMINED:

READING

1. Comprehension Passage
2. Comprehension Passage

WRITING

1. Formal Email
2. Factual Description- Person/Object
3. Formal Letter /Letter to the Editor/ Letter of Enquiry/Letter-Placing Order/Letter-Complaint
4. Article Writing

GRAMMAR

1. Tenses
2. Modals
3. Subject Verb Concord
4. Reported Speech (Commands and Requests, Statements, Questions)
5. Clauses (Noun Clauses, Adverb Clauses, Relative Clauses)
6. Determiners

LITERATURE

Poem
1. The Frog and the Nightingale
2. Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments (Sonnet 55)
3. Ozymandias
4. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Part I and II
5. Snake

Prose
1. Two Gentlemen of Verona
2. Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger
3. The Letter
4. A Shady Plot
5. Patol Babu, Film Star
6. Virtually True

Play
1. The Dear Departed
2. Julius Caesar

Main Course Book

1. Health and Medicine
2. Education
3. Science
4. Environment
5. Travel and Tourism
6. National Integration
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30 mins SECTION- A: READING 22 MARKS

I. Unseen Passage 12
II. Unseen Passage with visual input 10
(Total Word Limit-750 words. Passages can have continuous and non-continuous text(e.g.: list,
tables, cues, message, telephone conversation etc.) inspired from the themes in prescribed books)
(Multiple Choice Questions/ Objective Type Questions, Very Short Answer Type Questions (one
word/one phrase/one sentence) and Short Answer Type Questions (30-40 words each) will be
asked to assess inference, analysis, interpretation, evaluation and vocabulary in context)

50 mins SECTION- B: WRITING 22 MARKS

III. Email to school authorities (Word Limit- 50 words)(Application for leave/ change of subject/
Change of section/bus-timings etc.) 10 mins 3
IV. Factual Description- Person/Object (Word Limit- 100 words) 15 mins 4
V. One out of two Formal Letters thematically aligned to topics in MCB (Word Limit- 120 words) 7
VI. One out of two Article Writing based on verbal cues, thematically aligned to topics in MCB 10 mins
(Word Limit- 150 words) 15 mins 8

SECTION- C: GRAMMAR 10 MARKS 10 mins

VII. Gap Filling 3
VIII. Editing/ Omission 4
IX. Sentence Reordering or Sentence Transformation in context 3

SECTION- D: LITERATURE 26 MARKS

X. Reference to Context
*Two extracts out of three from Prose/ Poetry (4+4 =8)
(Very Short Answer Type Questions will be asked to assess global comprehension,
inference, interpretation and evaluation) 15 mins
XI. Short Answer Questions
* Five Short Answer Type Questions out of six from the Literature Reader to test local and
global comprehension of theme and ideas, analysis, evaluation and appreciation.
(Word limit-30-40 words each) 35 mins (5 x 2 = 10)

XII. Long Answer Question

* One Long Answer Type Question out of two to assess how the values inherent in the text
have been brought out. Creativity, evaluation and extrapolation beyond the text and across
the texts will be assessed. This can also be a passage-based question taken from a situation/
plot from the texts.(Word limit-150 words) 8
20 mins

Mrs. Maura Gomes NOV. 6, 2023

Head of the Department

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