SYLLABUS – GENERAL ENGLISH
S.S.L.C. Standard (Objective Type)
Grammar
PART
A
1.
Match the following words and Phrases given in Column A with their meanings in
Column
B.
2.Choose
the correct ‘Synonyms’ for the underlined word from the options given
3.
Choose the correct ‘Antonyms’ for the underlined word from the options given
4.
Select the correct word (Prefix, Suffix)
5.
Fill in the blanks with suitable Article
6.
Fill in the blanks with suitable Preposition
7.
Select the correct Question Tag
8.
Select the correct Tense
9.
Select the correct Voice
10.
Fill in the blanks (Infinitive, Gerund, Participle)
11.
Identify the sentence pattern of the following sentence (Subject, Verb, Object….)
Blanks
with correct ‘Homophones’
12.
Find out the Error (Articles, Prepositions, Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb)
13.
Comprehension
14.
Select the correct sentence
15.
Find out the odd words (Verb, Noun, Adjective, Adverb)
16.
Select the correct Plural forms
17.
Identify the sentence (Simple, Compound, Complex Sentense)
18.
Identify the correct Degree.
19.Form
a new word by blending the words.
20.Form
compound words (Eg: Noun+Verb, Gerund+Noun)
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Part-B
Literature
1.
Figures of speech observed in the following Poems:
Alliteration
– Allusion – Simile – Metaphor – Personification – Oxymoron – Onomatopoeia –
Anaphora Ellipsis - Rhyme Scheme -
Rhyming Words – Repetition – Apostrophe
A
Psalm of Life - Women’s Rights - The Nation United - English words – Snake –
The Man He Killed - Off to outer space tomorrow morning – Sonnet No.116 - The
Solitary Reaper - Be the Best - O Captain My Captain – Laugh and Be Merry –
Earth - Don’t quit - The Apology - Be Glad your Nose is on your face - A sonnet
for my Incomparable Mother - The Flying Wonder – To a Millionaire - The Piano –
Manliness - Going for water - The cry of the Children - Migrant Bird - Shilpi.
2.
Appreciation Questions from Poetry
A
Psalm of Life - Women’s Rights - The Nation United - English words – Snake –
The Man He Killed - Off to outer space tomorrow morning – Sonnet No.116 - The
Solitary Reaper - Be the Best - O Captain My Captain - Laugh and Be Merry –
Earth - Don’t quit - The Apology - Be Glad your - Nose is on your face - A
sonnet for my Incomparable Mother – The Flying Wondr - To a Millionaire - The
Piano – Manliness - Going for water - The cry of the Children - Migrant Bird -
Shilpi.
3.Important
lines from Poems.
Where
the mind is without fear - The Solitary Reaper - Going for water – A Psalm of
Life - Be the Best - Sonnet No.116
4.Questions
on the Biography of
Mahatma
Gandhi - Jawaharlal Nehru - Subash Chandra Bose - Helen Keller Kalpana Chawala
- Dr.Salim Ali - Rani of Jhansi - Nelson Mandela – Abraham Lincoln
5.Questions
on Shakespeare’s
Merchant
of Venice (Act IV Court Scene) - Julius Ceasar (Act III Scene 2) - Sonnet 116
6.Questions
from Oscar Wilde’s
The
Model Millionaire - The Selfish Giant
7.Dr.Karl
Paulnack
Music-The
Hope Raiser
8.Comprehension
Questions from the following Motivational Essays:
Gopala
Krishna Gokhale’s Speech on 25th July
in Mumbai in response to The address presented to him by students- Dale
Carnegie’s ‘The Road to success- Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam’s ‘Vision for the Nation’(from‘India
2020’) - Ruskin Bond’s ‘Our Local Team’ - Hope Spencer’s ‘Keep your spirits high’
- Deepa Agarwal’s ‘After the storm’ - Brian patten’s ‘You can’t be that no you
can’t be that’
9.Comprehension
Questions from the following description of Places
Ahtushi
Deshpande’s ‘To the land of snow’ - Manohar Devadoss – Yaanai Malai -
Brihadeesvarar Temple
10.British
English – American English
Part-C
Authors and their
Literary Works
1.Match
the Poems with the Poets
A
psalm of Life - Be the Best - The cry of the children - The Piano – Manliness
Going for water – Earth -The Apology - Be Glad your Nose is on your face - The
Flying Wonder -Is Life But a Dream - Be the Best - O captain My Captain - Snake
- Punishment in Kindergarten -Where the Mind is Without fear - The Man He
Killed - Nine Gold Medals
2.Which Nationality the story
belongs to?
The
selfish Giant - The Lottery Ticket - The Last Leaf - How the Camel got its Hump
- Two Friends – Refugee - The Open Window
3.Identify
the Author with the short story
The
selfish Giant - The Lottery Ticket - The Last Leaf - How the Camel got its Hump
- Two Friends – Refugee - The Open Window - A Man who Had no Eyes - The Tears
of the Desert – Sam The Piano - The face of Judas Iscariot - Swept Away - A
close encounter - Caught Sneezing - The Wooden Bowl - Swami and the sum
4.Whose
Auto biography / Biography is this?
5.Which
Nationality the Poet belongs to ?
Robert
Frost - Archibald Lampman - D.H. Lawrence - Rudyard Kipling Kamala Das -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Famida Y. Basheer – Thomas Hardy - Khalil Gibran -
Edgar A. Guest - Ralph Waldo Emerson – Jack Prelutsky - F. Joanna - Stephen
Vincent Benet - William Shakespeare - William Wordsworth - H.W. Long Fellow -
Annie Louisa walker - Walt Whitman - V.K. Gokak
6.Characters,
Quotes, Important Lines from the following works of Indian Authors:
Sahitya
Akademi Award winner: Thakazhi Sivasankaran Pillai – ‘Farmer’ Kamala Das – 1.
Punishment in Kindergarten 2. My Grandmother’s House R.K. Narayan - Swami and the
sum - Rabindranath Tagore -Where the mind is without fear - Dhan Gopal Mukherji
- Kari, The Elephant – Deepa Agarwal - After the Storm - Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam -
Vision for the Nation Indra Anantha Krishna- The Neem Tree - Lakshmi Mukuntan-
The Ant Eater and the Dassie - Dr. Neeraja Raghavan - The Sun Beam
7.Drama
Famous lines, characters, quotes from
Julius
Caesar - The Merchant of Venice
8.Match
the Places, Poet, Dramatist, Painter with suitable option
9.
Match the following Folk Arts with the Indian State / Country
10.
Match the Author with the Relevant Title/Character
11.
Match the Characters with Relevant Story Title
The
Selfish Giant - How
the camel got its hump - The Lottery ticket – The Last Leaf - Two friends –
Refugee - Open window – Reflowering – The Necklace Holiday
12.
About the Poets
Rabindranath
Tagore - Henry Wordsworth Longfellow - Anne Louisa Walker -V K Gokak - Walt
Whitman - Douglas Malloch
13.
About the Dramatists
William
Shakespeare - Thomas Hardy
14.
Mention the Poem in which these lines occur
Granny,
Granny, please comb My Hair - With a friend - To cook and Eat - To India – My
Native Land - A tiger in the Zoo - No
men are foreign – Laugh and be Merry – The Apology - The Flying Wonder
15.
Various works of the following Authors –
Rabindranath
Tagore – Shakespeare
- William Wordsworth - H.W. Longfellow – Anne Louisa Walker - Oscar Wilde -
Pearl S. Buck
16.
What is the theme observed in the Literary works?
Snake
- The Mark of Vishnu - Greedy Govind - Our Local Team – Where the mind is
without fear - Keep your spirits high - Be the best – Bat – The Piano – The
Model Millionaire - The Cry of the Children –
Migrant
bird – Shilpi
17.
Famous Quotes – Who said this?
18.
To Which period the Poets belong
William
Shakespeare - Walt Whitman - William Wordsworth - H.W. Longfellow Annie Louisa
Walker - D.H. Lawrence
19.
Matching the Poets and Poems
Discovery
– Biking – Inclusion - Granny, Granny, please comb My Hair – With a Friend - To
cook and Eat – Bat - To India – My Native Land - A tiger in the Zoo - No men
are foreign - Laugh and be Merry –
Earth
– The Apology - The Flying Wonder - Off to outer space tomorrow morning - Be
the best - Is life, but a dream - Women’s rights - The Nation united - English
words – Snake – The man he killed
20.
Nature centered Literary works and Global issue Environment and Conservation
Flying
with moon on their wings - Migrant bird - Will Thirst Become - Unquenchable? -
Going for Water - Swept away - Gaia tells her
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