INTRODUCTION
The main purpose of the curriculum of Grade 10 is to enable the learners exchange their ideas with people of any nationality who speak or write the English langauge and the other is to esposse them to the large treasure of knoweldge available in written and spoken English. This course focuses on developing the learners active involvement and understanding in real language learning skills such as reading, writting, speaking and listening. Grade 10 book also has included lots of communicative and reading activites for the learners enhancement language use according to the context and situation. All the schools and students of grade 10 use the same text as they have to take SLC examination in which they are asked to answer the questions on the basis of the text questions all over Nepal.
Reading and writing skill are more given more important than that of speaking and listening skill from the perspective of assessment as mark schame for reading and writing is 75% marks whereas speaking and listening carries only 15% and 10% respectively. The examination specification grid of this course reflects the assessement and evaluation part of the curriculum. It assisst the test item developers to design valid test items that will measure the learning outcomes set in the curriculum. It also gives the types and number of the test items required to measure a particular skill. Following questions have been prepared on the ground of grid specification and also the marking scheme has been prepared accordingly.
Compulsory English Ten Specification Grid
Competence (knowlwdg/understanding) and performance Level (Practical Abilities) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listening(10 Marks) | Speaking (15 Marks) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Time :20 Minutes | Time :10 Minutes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Question Types: 1.Multiple choice 2. fill in the gapes 3. True/false 4. Tick the correct pictures\answers 5.Ordering Materials: Cassette \Monitors’ Voice 1. Ask any three questions. 2. Listening objectives of Grade Ten English Curriculum should be measured. | Question Types: 1. Interview/conservation 2. Cued situaiton 3. Story telling 4. Describing pictures, charts, maps and a equence events. (Teacher as a\an monitor\interviewer) Materials: Pictures, maps, diagrams etc. 1. Ask any three questions. 2. Language functions of Grade Ten English Curriculum Should be measured. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reading(40 Marks) Time : 1:15 hours Question Types: 1.Two Seen texts-(5+10)=15 Marks 2.Two unseen texts-(10+15)=25Marks Question Types: a. Short answer questions b. cloze c. ordering d. Multiple choice e. True/False f. Fill in the space g. Vocabulary h. Matching Materials: 1. Two seen texts from grade 10 textbook. 2. Two kinds of unseen authentic texts such as charts, graphs, tables, passages, advertisements, stories, notices and letters. Note: 1. Reading objectives of Grade Ten English Curriculum should be measured. 2. Except short answer questions, the types of questions should not be repeated in the two seen comprehension passages. 3. This is applied to the two unseen comprehension passage as well. | Writing (35 Marks) Time :1 hour Question Types: 1. Guided writing- 2*6=12 marks Ask any two questions Question Types: Interpreting charts and diagram, pictures or clues, completing a dialogue:broken dialouges:paragraphs; new stories; rules and regualtions; narrating sequence of events, arguments; completing a skeleton stor 2. 2. Free Writing (1*12=12 marks) Ask any one question Essays, letters, newspaper articles (Word limit - 150- 200 words) 3. Grammar: 11 marks Question Types: Type 1: Multiple choice Type 2: Fill up the gaps with the grammar items in a contextual passage.
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Reading and writing(Written Test)
SUBJECT: English Full Marks: 75
TIME: 3 hours. Pass Marks: 24
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words.
Reading Section
1. Read the poem and answer the questions given below.
Patriotism
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
“This is my own, my native land!”
Whose heart hath never within him buried?
As home his foot steps he hath turn’d
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go mark hin well;
For him no minestrel raptures swell,
High though his title, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim,
Despite those titles, power and pelf,
The wretch concentrated all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And doubly dying shall go down,
To the vile dust from where he sprung,
Un wept, unhonour’d and unsung.
-Sir Walter Scott
A. Complete the sentences choosing the correct answers. 1*3=3
i. The man who has no love for the .........is called dead.
a.motherland b. fatherland c. foreignland
ii. All the titlle of man is useless if he isn’t...........
a. honored b. wealthy c.patriotic
iii. One’s mother land is far better than.......
a. native land b.heaven c.dream land.
B. From the poem above write down words which are similar in meaning to the following words: 0.5*4=2
a. lives.........
b. lose......
c. fame......
d. riches.....
2. Read the following text and do the activities given below: 10
Psychology is the study of human behaviour, of how people behave and why they behave in just the way they do. Its chief purpose is to know more about human nature and human activitey. In the past psychology was definde as the science of soul or mind. While behaviour is objective and can be observed, both soul and mind are just assuptions, they cannot be observed and are not a proper object of scientific study. Later psychology was defined as the science of consciousness or conscious experience, but nobodyhas been able to say what makes us conscious of things and people around us, and in any case there are a number of things an individaul does wohtout being aware of them. Many people bite their nails or move their heads and are surprised when their attention is drawn t these acts. They perform them unconsciously. Besides anybody’s expereice is his own private and personal world into which others cannot enter. It is known directly only t him who has that experience. But a person’s behaviour is open to everybody to observe, it can be directly studied and it is better to confine the study of psychology to behaviour alone, to those activities of the individual which can be observed, compared and anlysed by all. It is a systematic study of all that man does in response to his world of things and persons. |
A. Find words/phrases from the passage that are similar in meanings to the following words: 4*0.5=2
i. character
ii. individaul
iii. guesses
iv. orderly
B. State whether the following statements are true or false: 4*0.5=2
i. In the past psychology was defined as the science of body.
ii. Behaviour is objective and can be observed.
iii. Many people bite their nails consciously.
iv. Psychology is the systematic study of human behaviour.
C. Answer the following questions: 3*2=6
i. How si psychology defined?
ii. How di people define psychology later?
iii. Can a person’s behaviour be observed directly? If so, how?
3. Read the following passage and do the activites given below: 10
In March 1853, Russia invaded Turkey. Britain and France went to Turkey’s aid in this conflict know as the Crimean war. Within a few weeks of their arrival, about 8,000 soldiers were suffering from cholera and malaria. When Florence read a report on this in the times, she volunteered her services. The government refused permission at first because women had never been involved in such things before. But eventually, it allowed her to take a group of 35 nurses to Turkey. Florence found the conditions in the army hospital in Scutari, in Turkey, deeply shocking. The men were kept in dirty rooms without blankets or decent food and clothes. In these conditions, it was not surprising that disease such as typhus, cholera and dysentery were the main reasons for the high death-rate amongst wounded soldiers. At first, military officers and doctors objected Florence’s involvement in treating the wounded soldiers. But when her friends at The Times reported the way, the British Army treated its wounded soldiers; she was allwed to work in the bbarracks hospital. By improving the quality of sanitation, she was able t reduce the death-rate among her patients considerably. She was called the ‘the lady with the lamp’ by the British soldiers because of the late hours she worked tending t the sck and the wounded, carrying a lamp in her hand. |
A. From the text find the words that are similar in meaning to the following words: 0.5*4=2
i. attacked ii. presented oneself iii.proper iv. lassen
B. Rewrite the following sentences in the correct order: 1*4=4
i. The Crimean war broke out.
ii. The government was not ready t accept Florence’s Voluntary services.
iii. Florence helped the sick and wounded soldiers.
iv. Soldiers started being sick.
C. Answer the following questions: 1*4=4
i. What is the Crimean war?
ii. Why didn’t the government accept Florece’s Voluntray service?
iii. How as the condition of the army hospital in Turkey?
iv. Why was Florence called ‘the lady with the lamp’?
4. Read the advertisement and answer the questions given below: 15
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT A leading private sector Bank invites applications for the post of Manager to be posted outside the Kathmandu Valley. The candidate should be young, graduates, below 25, from the discipline of Business/commerce/Economics with minimum 50% marks. The candidates must be fluent in both English and Nepali, written and spoken. S/he must be Nepali citizen and must have working knowledge of computer. Only short listed candidates will be called for written test and personal interview. Interested and deserving candidates may apply with full biodata, 2 recent pasaport sized photos and names of two refrees within 15 days from the date of this publication. P.O. Box 5690, Kathmandu, Nepal. |
A. Answer the questions given: 2*4=8
a. Where will the manager will be posted?
b. State the academic and other qualifications for the candidates.
c. Who will be called for the written test and personal interview?
d. What should the candidate submit along with the application?
B. State state true or flase to the following: 0.5*6=3
a. The bank claims that it’s a leading bank.
b. Posted candidate will work in the Kathmandu Valley.
c. The candidates must be a Nepali Citizen.
d. Candidates can send applications after ten days from this publication.
e. Candidates majoring Economics with 50% mark can not apply.
C. Fill in the gapes with the words/phrases from the vacancy Annoucement: 1*4=4
a. Interested candidates may apply for the post of Manaager with bio-data, p/p photos and..........
b. Candidates must be...............in both English and Nepali.
c. Apllicants should have scored at least ........marks in aforesid disciplines.
d. The candidates should be young, graduates and below........years of age.
5. Complete the following dialogue choosing the correct options from the given box: 1*6=6
Receptionist : ..........................................................................1
Tourist : Good evening. Have you got any room vacant?
Receptionist : Yes, Madam. ...................................................2
Tourist : I want one single in the ground floor.
Receptionist : I’m sorry, madam..............................................3
Tourist : What about on the first floor?
Receptionist : Yes, madam........................................................4
Tourist : What facilities do you provide here?
Receptionist : Of course! .........................................................5
Tourist : Well, I want to book a room for a week.
Receptionist : ...........................................................................6
Ø we have one one the first floor. Ø what type of room do you want? Ø o.k. Thank you, madam. Ø Good evening, can I help you, madam? Ø Here is a brouchure giving all information about the hotel. Ø There is no single room lying vacant at the moment on the ground floor. |
6. Construct a readable story with the help of outlines given in the box: 6
A fox.....hungry.......wandering in search of something.....saw....abunch of fine large, ripe grapes hanging from a vine.....very happy........jumped.......unable........tried several times......all in vain,.......high out of reach.......tired and sweated......gave up....his attempt and going away, said........grapes sour amkee me ill if I eat them.....moral.......... |
7. Write an essay on “Importnace of English Language” in about 200 words. Use the following clues: 12
Introduction of language...............influence of English languageover the world........wide coverage..........considered as an international language.............its importance.........conclusion. |
8. Rewrite the following sentences choosing the best alternative given in the brackets. 0.5*12=6
I. Honesty is.......best policy.(a\an\the)
II. This is not known......me.(by\to\with)
III. Rita has never been to pokhara,............?(hasn’t she\has she\does she)
IV. Fifteen kilometers ........not a short distance for a walk in a day.(is\are\have)
V. Kamal plays the guitar but she.........(do not play\does not play\does not plays) the piano.
VI. Did she .......the officer?(meets\met\meet)
VII. When we woke up, it ......outside.(will snow\now\was snowing\is snowing)
VIII. They have given me a pen. It means I..........a pen.(am given\have been given\has been given)
IX. She asked me why.......(was I late\I was late\I am late)
X. They have been victimized........her cruelty.(because\because of\so)
XI. My father is very kind. He never makes us........the heavy works.(do\doing\to do)
XII. If Ram.....his bag, he would not go to school.(lost\had lost\have lost)
9. Choose the correct words from the brackets to complete the passage below. 0.5*10=5
Last night, one of my school.......(friend/friends/friend’s) phoned me. She wanted to come....(at/with/to) me. I went to recieve her. She ......(waited/had waited/was waiting) for me at the park when I reached there. I was late, I f I........(had reached/would reach/reached)a little earlier, she couldn’t have to wait for me a long time. We came home together, “why are you tired?” I’m never tired........?(am I/aren’t I/are I) She said. She told me that she.........(left/had left/was left) her house the previous day. She wanted to get her son.......(admit/to admit/admitted)at my school .............(because of/inspite of/although) her poverty, she wanted to educate her son. She wanted her son to be a doctor in.....(a/an/the) U.S.A. After taking meal, I .......(told/was told/had told) everything about her future plan.
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