Teachers' Guidelines 👩‍🏫

In a multilingual country like India, English acts as a common medium of communication to diverse language groups. 🗣️ The aim of studying English in India is therefore to inculcate Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills (BICS) among the learners.

The new English textbook for class X, Bliss, has an assortment of poems and prose selections highlighting different genres of English literature from all over the world. Through this, the language skills of the learners are to be developed. 📖 The reading materials have been organized for easy comprehension so that learners can ably respond to the given questions. It is anticipated that the oral-aural skills will be developed through different classroom activities and tested internally via various formative assessments. The new English syllabus also invites learners to go beyond the periphery of the textbook, as recommended in NCF 2005. 💡

In the textbook, language skills and functions are developed in a graded manner. They are as follows:

• Lesson 1 (Father's Help):

  • Learning objectives: reinforcing the ability to use articles, prepositions, and tenses appropriately.
  • Developing the skill to write letters to newspaper editors on various issues of public concern. ✍️

• Lesson 2 (Fable):

  • Learning objectives: reinforcing the ability to transform sentences from active voice to passive voice and vice versa.
  • Ability to use appropriate phrasal verbs in sentences.
  • Skill to write a paragraph based on given points and also informal letters.

• Lesson 3 (The Passing Away of Bapu):

  • Learning objectives: developing the ability to join and split sentences.
  • Reinforcing the skill to write a process using a flow-chart.
  • Ability to write a biography based on given points.

• Lesson 4 (My Own True Family):

  • Learning objectives: reinforcing the ability to transform sentences and also to change the form of narration from direct speech to indirect speech.
  • Developing the skill to write notices.

• Lesson 5 (Our Runaway Kite):

  • Learning objectives: developing the ability to frame questions.
  • Reinforcing the skill to write a story based on given points and to write dialogues. 💬

• Lesson 6 (Sea Fever):

  • Learning objectives: reinforcing the ability to transform sentences.
  • Skill to write a newspaper report and to summarise a given passage. 📰

• Lesson 7 (The Cat):

  • Learning objectives: reinforcing the ability to join and split sentences.
  • Ability to write notices.

• Lesson 8 (The Snail):

  • Learning objectives: reinforcing the ability to frame questions.
  • Ability to write editorial letters.

Syllabus 📚

The following expected competencies are reflected in the syllabus:

Skills/Functional Areas
Listening
Speaking
Reading
Writing
Grammar
Vocabulary

Expected Competencies
Ability to listen to and comprehend a speech, running commentary of a sports event, public announcement. 👂
Ability to converse in formal and informal situations. 🗣️
The reading strategies included in the text are: intensive reading, extensive reading, skimming, scanning. 📖
Newspaper report, summary, notice, biography, story, paragraph, process writing, dialogue, letter (formal and informal). ✍️
Article, preposition, tense, phrasal verb, joining sentences, splitting sentences, voice change, narration change, transformation of sentences involving: (i) degree change (ii) change in parts of speech (iii) transformation of types of sentences: (a) simple, compound, complex; (b) assertive (affirmative and negative), interrogative, exclamatory, optative.
Synonyms from textbook and beyond the textbook content areas. 💡

All the activities practiced in class IX for the development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills are to be recapitulated and reinforced. ✅

Distribution of Marks and Question Pattern 📊

Testing Areas	MCQ (1 mark each)	SAQ (1 mark each)	LAQ (2 marks each)	DAQ (10 marks each)	Total Marks
(A) Reading Comprehension (Seen)					20
Prose	No. of ques.=5 (Total: 1x5=5)	No. of ques.=3 (Total: 1x3=3)	No. of ques.=2 (Total: 2x2=4)	nil
Poetry	No. of ques.=4 (Total: 1x4=4)	nil	No. of ques.=2 (Total: 2x2=4)	nil
(B) Reading Comprehension (Unseen)	No. of ques.=6 (Total: 1x6=6)	No. of ques.=6 (Total: 1x6=6)	No. of ques.=4 (Total: 2x4=8)	nil	20
(C) Grammar & Vocabulary	No. of ques.=3 (Total: 1x3=3)	No. of ques.=9 (Total: 1x9=9)	No. of ques.=4 (Total: 2x4=8)	nil	20
(D) Writing	nil	nil	nil	No. of ques.=3 (Total: 10x3=30)	30
Marks per question type	18	18	24	30	90

The Pledge 🤝

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পথ সংস্কৃতি জানব ট্রাফিক নিয়ম মানব আমি সতর্ক হয়ে চলব সুস্থভাবে এগিয়ে যাব পথকে জয় করব শান্ত জীবন গড়ব পথ শুধু আমার নয় এ পথ মোদের সবার তা সর্বদা মনে রাখব

Traffic Do's and Don'ts 🚦

1. Refrain from drunken driving. 🚫
2. Use & encourage helmet usage. ⛑️
3. Adhere to prescribed speed limit. ⏱️
4. Always overtake from the right side. ➡️
5. Refrain from mobile phone usage while on road. 📵
6. Use zebra crossing, foot overbridge and subways to cross the roads. 🚶‍♀️