Detailed Syllabus Class X English (Communicative) 2008

SYLLABUS AND EXAMINATION SPECIFICATIONS
English (Communicative)
(Code No. 101)
CLASS-X

SEPARATE QUESTION PAPER AND ANSWER SHEET FORMAT REPLACES COMBINED BOOKLET FORMAT FROM MARCH, 2005 EXAMINATION.

One Paper 3 Hours 100 Marks

SECTION A : READING        20 Marks        40 Periods

Two unseen passages with a variety of comprehension questions including 04 marks for word-attack skills such as word formation and inferring meaning.

1 250-350 words in length – 08 marks
2 400-450 words in length – 12 marks

The total length of the two passages will be between 650 and 800 words.
Question No.1 First passage will have a factual passage (e.g., instruction, description, report etc.) or a literary passage (e.g., extract from fiction, drama, poetry, essay or biography).

Question No. 2 Second passage will have a factual passage or a discursive passage involving opinion, (argumentative, persuasive or interpretative text).

Only 2 will have questions on word-attack skills for 04 marks.

SECTION B : WRITING   30 Marks    63 Periods

Four writing tasks as indicated below:

Question No.3 and 4 will be Short composition of not more than 50 words each - e.g., notice, message, telegram or short postcard. Each composition will carry 5 marks

Important note on format and word limit :
Notice : Word limit : 50 words for body of the notice. Notice must be placed in a box. If the candidate exceeds the word limit by more than 5 words ½ mark will be deducted.

Message: Word limit : 50 words for body of the message. Message must be placed in a box. If the candidate exceeds the word limit by more than 5 words ½ mark will be deducted.

Postcard: Word limit : 50 words for body of the letter. Format of postcard has to be printed in the question paper for candidates to copy while writing the answer. 1 mark will be deducted if the student fails to copy the proper layout. If the candidate exceeds the word limit by more than 5 words ½ mark will be deducted.

Telegram: Word limit : 25 words inclusive of receiver’s name and address, sender’s name and the word STOP/. However Sender’s address, which is not to be telegraphed, will not be counted for deciding word limit. Format of telegraph form has to be printed in the question paper for candidates to copy while writing the answer. 1 mark will be deducted if the student fails to copy the proper layout. If the candidate exceeds the word limit by one or two words ½ mark will be deducted. If he/she exceeds the word limit by three or more words 1 mark will be deducted.

Question No. 5 will be a Composition based on a verbal stimulus such as an advertisement, notice, newspaper cutting, table, diary extract, notes, letter or other forms of correspondence.

Word limit : 200 words (For letter : 150 words only for body of the letter) 10 marks.

Question No. 6 will be a Composition based on a visual stimulus such as a diagram, picture, graph, map, cartoon or flow chart.
Word limit : 150-200 words 10 marks.

One of the longer (10 marks) compositions will draw on the thematic content of the Main Course book.

Note : for question No. 5 and 6 : If the candidate exceeds the word limit by 15 words or more 1 mark will be deducted. Word limit applies only to the body of the letter (150 words) / article (200 words)/speech (150  words) /report (excluding the format—200 words) etc.

SECTION C : GRAMMAR     20 Marks     42 Periods

Question No. 7-11 A variety of short questions involving the use of particular structures within a context (i.e., not in isolated sentences). Test types used will include gap-filling, cloze (gap filling exercise with blanks at regular intervals), sentence completion, reordering word groups in sentences, editing, dialogue completion and sentence transformation.
The grammar syllabus will be sampled each year, with marks allotted for :Verb forms, sentence structures and Other areas.
Note : Jumbled words in reordering exercise to test syntax will involve sentences in a context. Each sentence will be split into sense groups (not necessarily into single words) and jumbled up.

SECTION D : LITERATURE   30 Marks     65 Periods

Question N. 12 and 13 : Two extracts from different poems from the prescribed reader, each followed by two or three questions to test local and global comprehension of the set text. Each extract will carry 4 marks.
Word limit : one or two lines for each answer.

Question No. 14 will be one question (with or without an extract) testing global or local comprehension of a poem or a play from the prescribed reader.
Word limit : 75-100 words 05 marks

Question No. 15 will carry up to three questions based on one of the drama texts from the prescribed reader to test local and global comprehension of the set text. An extract may or may not be used.
Word limit : one or two lines for each question if an extract is given. If an extract is not given, the word limit will be roughly 75 words. Total 05 marks

Question No. 16 will be one question based on one of the prose texts from the prescribed reader to test global comprehension and extrapolation beyond the set text.
Word limit : 50-75 words 04 marks.

Question No. 17 will be one extended question based on one of the prose texts from the prescribed reader to test global comprehension and extrapolation beyond the set text.
Word limit : 150-175 words 08 marks.

Questions will test comprehension at different levels : literal, inferential and evaluative.

Unit II: Current Electricity (Periods 22)

Electric current, flow of electric charges in a metallic conductor, drift velocity, mobility and their relation with electric current; Ohm’s law, electrical resistance, V-I characteristics (linear and non-linear), electrical energy and power, electrical resistivity and conductivity.

Carbon resistors, colour code for carbon resistors; series and parallel combinations of resistors; temperature dependence of resistance.

Internal resistance of a cell, potential difference and emf of a cell, combination of cells in series and in parallel.

Kirchhoff’s laws and simple applications. Wheatstone bridge, metre bridge.

Potentiometer - principle and its applications to measure potential difference and for comparing emf of two cells; measurement of internal resistance of a cell.

Unit III: Magnetic Effects of Current and Magnetism (Periods 25)

Concept of magnetic field, Oersted’s experiment.

Biot - Savart law and its application to current carrying circular loop.

Ampere’s law and its applications to infinitely long straight wire, straight and toroidal solenoids.

Force on a moving charge in uniform magnetic and electric fields. Cyclotron. Force on a current-carrying conductor in a uniform magnetic field. Force between two parallel current-carrying conductors-definition of ampere. Torque experienced by a current loop in uniform magnetic field; moving coil galvanometer-its current sensitivity and conversion to ammeter and voltmeter.

Current loop as a magnetic dipole and its magnetic dipole moment. Magnetic dipole moment of a revolving electron. Magnetic field intensity due to a magnetic dipole (bar magnet) along its axis and perpendicular to its axis. Torque on a magnetic dipole (bar magnet) in a uniform magnetic field; bar magnet as an equivalent solenoid, magnetic field lines; Earth’s magnetic field and magnetic elements. Para-, dia- and ferro - magnetic substances, with examples. Electromagnets and factors affecting their strengths. Permanent magnets.

Unit IV: Electromagnetic Induction and Alternating Currents (Periods 20)

Electromagnetic induction; Faraday’s law, induced emf and current; Lenz’s Law, Eddy currents. Self and mutual inductance. Need for displacement current. Alternating currents, peak and rms value of alternating current/voltage; reactance and impedance; LC oscillations (qualitative treatment only), LCR series circuit, resonance; power in AC circuits, wattless current. AC generator and transformer.

Unit V: Electromagnetic waves (Periods 4)

Electromagnetic waves and their characteristics (qualitative ideas only). Transverse nature of electromagnetic waves.

Electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, Xrays, gamma rays) including elementary facts about their uses.

Unit VI: Optics (Periods 30)

Reflection of light, spherical mirrors, mirror formula. Refraction of light, total internal reflection and its applications, optical fibres, refraction at spherical surfaces, lenses, thin lens formula, lens-maker’s formula. Magnification, power of a lens, combination of thin lenses in contact. Refraction and dispersion of light through a prism.

Scattering of light - blue colour of the sky and reddish appearance of the sun at sunrise and sunset.

Optical instruments: Human eye, image formation and accommodation, correction of eye defects (myopia, hypermetropia, presbyopia and astigmatism) using lenses. Microscopes and astronomical telescopes (reflecting and refracting) and their magnifying powers. Wave optics: wave front and Huygens’ principle, reflection and refraction of plane wave at a plane surface using wave fronts. Proof of laws of reflection and refraction using Huygens’ principle. Interference, Young’s double slit experiment and expression for fringe width, coherent sources and sustained interference of light. Diffraction due to a single slit, width of central maximum. Resolving power of microscopes and astronomical telescopes. Polarisation, plane polarised light; Brewster’s law, uses of plane polarised light and Polaroids.

Unit VII: Dual Nature of Matter and Radiation (Periods 8)

Dual nature of radiation. Photoelectric effect, Hertz and Lenard’s observations; Einstein’s photoelectric equation-particle nature of light.

Matter waves-wave nature of particles, de Broglie relation. Davisson-Germer experiment.

Unit VIII: Atoms & Nuclei (Periods 18)

Alpha-particle scattering experiment; Rutherford’s model of atom; Bohr model, energy levels, hydrogen spectrum.

Composition and size of nucleus, atomic masses, isotopes, isobars; isotones. Radioactivityalpha, beta and gamma particles/rays and their properties; radioactive decay law.

Mass-energy relation, mass defect; binding energy per nucleon and its variation with mass number; nuclear fission and fusion.

Unit IX: Electronic Devices (Periods 18)

Semiconductors; semiconductor diode – I-V characteristics in forward and reverse bias, diode as a rectifier; I-V characteristics of LED, photodiode, solar cell, and Zener diode; Zener diode as a voltage regulator. Junction transistor, transistor action, characteristics of a transistor; transistor as an amplifier (common emitter configuration) and oscillator. Logic gates (OR, AND, NOT, NAND and NOR). Transistor as a switch.

Unit X: Communication Systems (Periods 10)

Elements of a communication system (block diagram only); bandwidth of signals (speech, TV and digital data); bandwidth of transmission medium. Propagation of electromagnetic waves in the atmosphere, sky and space wave propagation. Need for modulation. Production and detection of an amplitude-modulated wave.

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