UP Board Class 10 Syllabus 2022 English

Class – X

Syllabus – English

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Text Book
 Two Story about Flying
i. His First Flight Liam O’Flaherty
ii. Black Aeroplane Frederick Forsyth
 The Hundred Dresses-I El Bsor Ester
 The Hundred Dresses-II El Bsor Ester
 Mijbil The Otter Gavin Maxwell
 The Proposal Anton Chekov

 How to Tell Wild Animals Carolyn Wells
 The Ball Poem John Berryman
 The Tale of Custard the Dragon Ogden Nash
 For Anne Gregory William Butler Yeats

Footprints Without Feet – Supplementary Reader

 The Midnight Visitor Robert Arthur
 A Question of Trust Victor Canning
 The Hack Driver Sinclair Lewis
 The Book That Saved the Earth Claire Boiko

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Class – X

Syllabus – English

Max Marks – 100

There will be one question paper of 70 marks. Internal Assessment will be for 30 marks .

Section A – Reading- 10 Marks

1. One long passage followed by two short-answer questions and two very short-answer
type vocabulary based/language based questions.
3+3=6
2+2=4

Section B – Writing- 10 Marks

2. Letter/Application writing. 4
3. Descriptive paragraph/report/article based on given verbal clues 6

Section C – Grammar- 15 Marks

4. Ten questions (MCQs/very short-answer type questions) based on parts of speech,
tenses, narrations, articles, voice, reordering of sentences, punctuation etc. 1X10=10
5. A very short passage in hindi for translation into english (5 lines). 5

Section D – Literature- 35 Marks

First Flight – Text Book

Prose- 15

6. Two Short answer type questions based on a given prose passage 2+2=4
7. One long answer type questions 4
8. Two short answer type questions 2+2=4
9. Three very short vocabulary based/match type questions 1X3=3

Poetry- 8

10. Two short answer type questions based on a given poetry extract 2+2=4
11. Central idea of any one of the given poems 4
OR
Four lines from any poem prescribed in the syllabus

Foot Prints Without Feet – Supplementary Reader - 12

12. Two short answer type questions 2+2=4
13. One long answer type question 4
14. Four very short answer type questions (True/False, Completing the sentence) 1X4=4

Prescribed books and Lessons

First Flight – Text Book

1. A Letter to God G.L. Fuentes
2. Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
3. From the Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank

4. Glimpses of India
i. A Baker from Goa Lucio Rodrigues
ii. Coorg Lokesh Abrol
iii. Tea from Assam Arup Kumar Datta
5. Madam Rides the Bus Vallikkannan
6. The Sermon at Benares

1. Dust of Snow Robert Frost
2. Fire and Ice Robert Frost
3. A Tiger in the Zoo Leslie Norris
4. Amanda! Robin Klein
5. Animals Walt Whitman
6. The Trees Adrienne Rich
7. Fog Carl Sandburg

Footprints Without Feet-Supplementary Reader

1. A Triumph of Surgery James Herriot
2. The Thief’s Story Ruskin Bond
3. Footprints Without Feet H.G. Wells
4. The Making of a Scientist Robert W. Peterson
5. The Necklace Guy De Maupassant
6. Bholi K.A. Abbas

Note – There is no book prescribed for Grammar. Students can select any book recommended by their
subject teacher.