English Grammar class 9 and 10
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English Grammar
CLASS 9
ICSE Class 9 , 10 , 11, and 12 students have 2 papers on the English language.
Papers Subject Name Marks Time duration Paper 1 English Language 80 2 Hours Internal Assessment 20 – Paper 2 Literature in English 80 2 Hours Internal Assessment 20 – English Language
Topic Marks 1. Composition 80 2. Letter 3. (a) Notice; (b) E-mail 4. Unseen Prose Passage 5. Grammar INTERNAL ASSESSMENT
Listening Skills (10) + Speaking Skills (10)20 TOTAL 100 5. Grammar
INTERNAL ASSESSMENT
Listening Skills (10) + Speaking Skills (10)20
TOTAL
100
Class Starting:
Also Class timing once finalized will not be adjusted thereafter
Every Week One class. The timings will be finalized where majority of the students will be gathered.
Reading
1) Texts (Literary and Nonliterary) covering different themes and registers for comprehension and inference. The themes may include:
- Self, Family, Home, Friends
- Neighbourhood and Community at large
- The Nation – diversity (socio-cultural, religious and ethnic, as well as linguistic), heritage
- Myths/legends/folktales)
- The World – India’s neighbours and other countries (their cultures, literature and customs)
- Adventure, Imagination and creativity
- Sports and Yoga
- Issues relating to Adolescence
- Science and Technology
- Peace and Harmony
- Travel and Tourism
- Mass Media
- Art and Culture
- Health and Reproductive health
- experience of children,
- Personalities & achievers
- Environmental concerns – water conservation, cleanliness and sanitation, Safety –personal safety & awareness about child abuse, conservation energy
2) Extensive and intensive reading of the texts.
Writing
- Simple messages, invitations, short paragraphs, letters (formal and informal) applications.
- Short compositions based on pictures.
- Simple narrative and descriptive pieces, etc.
- Creative writing: stories, poems, dialogues, etc.
- organise and structure thoughts in writing.
- Organise and structure meaningful sentences in a sequential manner.
- use of linkers such as ‘firstly’, ‘then’, ‘later’, ‘finally’, etc. to link sentences to indicate passage of time and provide a sense of closure.
- Age appropriate use of words and phrases.
- Follow process approach to writing i.e., planning, revising, reviewing, editing, rewriting.
Grammar and Vocabulary in Context
- Pronouns in the proper case, reflexive pronouns, pronoun number and person, pronoun – antecedent agreement to include indefinite pronouns.
- Subject-verb agreement with intervening phrases and clauses.
- Transitive and intransitive verbs.
- Tenses to convey time, sequence, state, and condition.
- Recognition of correct and incorrect /inappropriate shifts in verb tense.
- Vocabulary in context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
- Age-appropriate affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word.
- Dictionary and reference materials, print, digital and tactile, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.
- Figures of speech in context.
CLASS 9
ICSE Class 9 , 10 , 11, and 12 students have 2 papers on the English language.
Papers Subject Name Marks Time duration Paper 1 English Language 80 2 Hours Internal Assessment 20 – Paper 2 Literature in English 80 2 Hours Internal Assessment 20 – English Language
Topic Marks 1. Composition 80 2. Letter 3. (a) Notice; (b) E-mail 4. Unseen Prose Passage 5. Grammar INTERNAL ASSESSMENT
Listening Skills (10) + Speaking Skills (10)20 TOTAL 100 5. Grammar
INTERNAL ASSESSMENT
Listening Skills (10) + Speaking Skills (10)20
TOTAL
100
CLASS 10
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Topic | Marks |
1. Composition | 80 |
2. Letter | |
3. (a) Notice; (b) E-mail | |
4. Unseen Prose Passage | |
5. Grammar | |
INTERNAL ASSESSMENT | 20 |
TOTAL | 100 |
Admission fees :Rs1000/- payable yearly
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Sanchita Goswami Nath
English Teacher (MA, B Ed, PGDSLM,TESOL/TEFL)