CBSE Class 10 English Language and Literature New Syllabus 2025

• Tenses
• Modals
• Use of passive voice
• Subject-verb concord
• Reporting
  (i)  Commands and requests
  (ii)  Statements
  (iii)  Questions
• Clauses:
  (i)  Noun clauses
  (ii)  Adverb Clauses
  (iii)  Relative clauses
• Determiners
•  Prepositions

The above items may be tested through test types given below:

Gap filling with one or two words to test Prepositions, Articles, Conjunctions, and Tenses. (4 marks)

Editing or Omission (4 marks)

Sentences Reordering or Sentence Transformation in context (4 marks)

1. A Letter to God
2. Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
3. Two Stories about Flying
4. From the Diary of Anne Frank
5. The Hundred Dresses –I
6. The Hundred Dresses –II
7. Glimpses of India
8. Mijbil the Otter
9. Madam Rides the Bus
10. The Sermon at Benares
11. The Proposal

Poetry:-

1. Dust of Snow
2. Fire and Ice
3. A Tiger in the Zoo
4. How to Tell Wild Animals
5. The Ball Poem
6. Amanda
7. Animals
8. The Trees
9. Fog
10. The Tale of Custard the Dragon
11. For Anne Gregory

Extended Reading Text (With choice)

1. Diary of a Young Girl
2. The Story of My Life

Extracts from prose/poetry/play for reference to the context

• Four very short answer type questions of 1 mark each (4 Marks)
• Four Short Answer type Questions of 2 marks each (30-40 words) (08 marks)
• One long answer type question (100-120 words) (8 marks
• One very long answer type question (200-250 words)(10 Marks)

One out of two extracts from prose/poetry/drama for reference to context. Four Objective
Type Question( including MCQs): Two questions of one mark each on global comprehension
and two questions of 1 mark each on interpretation.

Five Short Answer type Questions to be answered in 30-40 words each from FIRST FLIGHT and FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET to test local and global comprehension of theme and ideas( three from FIRST FLIGHT and two from FOOTPRINTS WITHOUT FEET) .

One out of two Long Answer type Questions from FIRST FLIGHT to be answered in about 100-150 words to assess creativity, imagination and extrapolation beyond the text and across the texts.

One out of two long answer question from the book ‘FOOTPRINTS without FEET’ on theme or plot involving interpretation, extrapolation beyond the text and inference or character sketch to be answered in about 100-150 words.