CBSE Class 10 SA1 Tips for English Language and Literature Course

CHAPTER/SECTION/BOOKS

DEGREE OF IMPORTANCE

Low

Medium

High

1. Reading

•  Factual Passage
• Discursive passage

1. Writing Skills

• Letter to the Editor/Article (100–120 words)

• Short Story (150–120 words)

1. Grammar /Workbook

• Determiners
• Tenses
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Non-Finites
• Relatives
• Connectors
• Conditionals

1. First Flight

PROSE

• A Letter to God
• Nelson Mandela
• Two Stories About Flying
• From the Diary of Anne Frank
• The Hundred Dresses-I
•  The Hundred Dresses-II
• ·

POETRY

• Dust of Snow
• Fire and Ice
• A Tiger in the Zoo
•  How to Tell Wild Animals
• The Ball Poem
• Amanda

1. Long Reading Text

•  Diary of a Young Girl – 1947 (June 12, 1942 to March 14, 1944)

             OR

•  The Story of My Life – 1903 (Chapter 1-14)

1. Footprints without Feet

• The Triumph of Surgery
• The Thief’s Story
• The Midnight Visitor
• A Question of Trust
• Footprints without Feet