Name
of Course:
Link English
Full
Mark:
15
Time
per period:
45 mins
Total
Periods:
15
PART- I
Section- 1
1. The
Letters
Ø What comes after according to the
types of letter i.e. Small & Capital
Ø Introducing new words and let student
search them in dictionary
e.g. Din: loud
and unpleasant sound
Lapel- front edge of jacket/ coat
Mange- skin disease of animals etc.
2. Alphabetical Order (Need of Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, Collins
COBUILD Dictionary, Cambridge Int’l Dictionary of English)
Ø Words are arranged according to the
positions of the letters in the Alphabets.
Ø Names are arranged according to the
Surname of persons.
3. Saving Time
Quarters of
dictionary
Ø We can categories a dictionary into
four parts to locate a particular word.
Ø aems……….
i.e.
the words lying between a to d can be found in the 1st quarter
………………………… e to l……………………..2nd quarter
………………………….m to r……………………3rd quarter
………………………….s to z……………………..4th quarter
Guide- words
Ø The words placed at the top of each
page of a dictionary.
Ø Either initial word at the first page
and the final word at the second one or the first and the last words together
at the top of each page separately.
Section- II
1. Checking the Spellings
Ø Completing the words inserting the
appropriate letter in the gaps.
Ø Doubling the consonants in Present
Participle, Past Form and Past Participle.
Ø Ending in the form CVC (i.e.
Consonant- Vowel- Consonant cluster) or with stress in the words having two or
more syllables, the final consonant is doubled.
e.g.
drop- dropped/ dropping
'enter- entered/ entering
per'mit- permitted/ permitted
Ø Common Errors of Spelling:
e.g. developing or developping
Ø Words often Confused:
e.g. affect or effect
Section- III
Finding the Meaning
Ø Selection of correct parts-of-speech
(i.e. noun, adj., verb, adv. etc.)
Ø Selection of correct words based on
their usage. e.g. sensible or sensitive
Selection of similar words i.e. synonyms
Ø Words game e.g. Palindrome, formation
of words from a single word.
1. Vocabulary:
e.g.
· activities
things done
· average
of the ordinary or usual standard etc.
2. Verb
Construction: jumbled word order
e.g.
medicine/ wanted/ study/ he/ to
=> He wanted to
study medicine.
Name of Course:
Magic of Words
Full Mark:
35
Time per period:
45 mins
Total Periods:
50
Poems:
On the Vanity of Earthly
Greatness Arthur Guiterman
Concrete
Cat
Dorothy Charles
Keeping Things Whole Mark
Strand
The Poplar
Field
W. Cowper
My Heart Leaps Up When I
Behold W. Wordsworth
Essays:
Speaking of Children
Barbara Holland
In
Bed Joan Didion
The Nightmare Life without Fuel Issac Asimov
Oops! How’s That
Again? Roger
Rosenblatt
The Six Million Doller
Man Harold
J. Morowitz
Unchopping a Tree W.
S. Merwin
Stories:
Stories of the Supernatural from
several countries
The Three-Day Blow
Ernest Hemingway
The
Gardener
Rudyard Kipling
Look at a
Teacup
Patricia Hempl
A Worn
Path
Eudora Welty
Play:
Malini
R.N. Tagore
Name of Course:
Meanings into Words
Full Mark:
50
Time per period:
45 mins
Total Periods:
80
UNIT ONE
Describing places: use of prepositions, non-defining relative
clause, introductory there is/it is etc.
UNIT TWO
Decision Making
I
think I will….
May be I will….
Probably
I will….
UNIT THREE
Jobs and Routine e.g.
Where do you work?
I work at a hospital.
Are you a doctor then?
No, I am a gardener. I look after the garden.
UNIT FOUR
Direction: use of preposition, sequence of adv. etc.
When the ball begins to run towards me I ………
UNIT FIVE
Simple Past, Simple Passive Sentence
UNIT SIX
Talking about now: Progressive passive sentences
UNIT SEVEN
Requests and Offers: Asking for Permission
Request (Polite / More Polite / Most polite) and Offers
UNIT EIGHT
Recent action and activities: Present perfect vs past tense,
present perfect cont.
UNIT NINE
Comparison: of adj. and adv. ( degrees of adj.) eg. He
spends more than he earns.
UNIT TEN
The Past and the Present: Present perfect passive, talking about
past habit
UNIT ELEVEN
Like and Dislike: use of like, prefer in passive form
[being passive {you/me (use BEING+V3)} / having passive
{my/your (use HAVING+OBJ.+V3)} ]
UNIT TWELVE
Event + While + Circumstance
Circumstance + When + Event
UNIT THIRTEEN
Leisure activities and Events: going to future, describing skill,
asking for favour
UNIT FOURTEEN
Advice: use of You ought to…, if I were you…, Why don’t you…… etc.
/ use of because, so that, otherwise etc.
UNIT FIFTEEN
since+ Point of Time
for+ Period of Time
UNIT SIXTEEN
Location: use of on, in & at; geographical location;
prepositional phrase
UNIT SEVENTEEN
Similirities and Differences: Positive-negative sentence
structure; use of both, neither, either etc.
UNIT EIGHTEEN
Obligation: Permission, use of Make & Let, Freedom of Choice
UNIT NINETTEN
Prediction: Ways of expressing probability, Pure future &
Going to Future
UNIT TWENTY
Objects: NP, relative clause
UNIT TWENTY-ONE
Degree: To and Enough, So/ Such…….that…….
UNIT TWENTY-TWO
Setting Scene: Use of past tense
UNIT TWENTY-THREE
Criticizing: Should/If, Irritating Behaviour, Events and
Circumstances, if sentence……..
UNIT TWENTY-FOUR
Explanations: Use of to/ in order to, Cause & result,
Unexpected
Result.
