SECTION A

ENGLISH READER

Prose

• Chapter 1 Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain) [Adapted]
• Chapter 2 Kabuliwallah (R.N. Tagore)
• Chapter 3 Playing The Game (Arthur Mee) [Adapted]
• Chapter 4 A Golden Bowl (Jatak Tales)
• Chapter 5 Plants also Breathe and Feel (Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose)
• Chapter 6 The Rules of the Road

Poetry

• Chapter 1 The Mountain And The Squirrel (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• Chapter 2 Sympathy (Charles Mackay)
• Chapter 3 The Seven Ages of Man (William Shakespeare)
• Chapter 4 Indian Weavers (Sarojini Naidu)
• Chapter 5 I Vow To Thee, My Country (Sir Cecil Spring Rice)

Supplementary Reader

• Chapter 1 Gandhi Ji And A Coffee Drinker (G Ramchandran)
• Chapter 2 The Swan and the Princes (A Play)
• Chapter 3 Letter to the Children of India (Chacha Nehru)
• Chapter 4 On A Winter’s Night (Based on Munshi Prem Chand’s Story) (Poos Ki Raat)

SECTION B

GRAMMAR

1. Parts of Sentence
2. The Sentence: Types
3. The Verbs (Transitive Verb and Intransitive Verb)
4. Primary Auxiliaries (Be, Have, Do)
5. Modal Auxiliaries
6. Negative Sentences
7. Interrogative Sentences
8. Tenses : Form and Uses
9. The Passive Voice
10. The Parts of Speech
11. Indirect or Reported Speech
12. Word Formation
13. Punctuation and Spellings
14. Translation
15. Long Composition
16. Controlled Composition

1. Letter Writing/Application Writing
2. Comprehension (Unseen)

• Appendixes
• Project Work and Internal Evaluation Test
• Model Paper