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Class 10

English: Words and Expressions 2

40 lessons in 9 chapters, explained in plain words.

Unit 1 (A Letter to God)

  1. Revisiting 'A Letter to God'
  2. The Trader and the Tailor
  3. Relative clauses, editing and listening
  4. Speaking, writing and project work

Unit 2 (Nelson Mandela)

  1. Patel on freedom and character
  2. Words of freedom; using articles
  3. Editing and listening
  4. Speaking and writing on leaders

Unit 3 (Two Stories about Flying)

  1. Two stories about flying, revisited
  2. All about a Dog
  3. Adverbs, prefixes, phrasal verbs and the passive
  4. Punctuation, riddles and writing

Unit 4 (From the Diary of Anne Frank)

  1. Diaries of war: Lena Mukhina
  2. A Journal of the Plague Year
  3. Pronouns, idioms, contractions and editing
  4. Listening, speaking, writing and projects

Unit 5 (Glimpses of India)

  1. Parsi food and memories of Delhi
  2. Araku coffee
  3. Sounds, participles, tense and spelling
  4. Listening, travel and trains

Unit 6 (Mijbil the Otter)

  1. Mijbil revisited
  2. Baby Bhakat, the civet cat
  3. People, wildlife and animal rights
  4. Words as verbs and nouns; participles and past habits
  5. Bishnois, Gangaram and pets

Unit 7 (Madam Rides the Bus)

  1. Journeys: Valli and the cycling couple
  2. Going Down Hill on a Bicycle
  3. Synonyms, phrasal verbs and editing
  4. Mizoram and conversations
  5. Children's safety, roaming animals, travel tips

Unit 8 (The Sermon at Benares)

  1. Two sermons on death
  2. The Dalai Lama on a happier world
  3. The Ballad of Father Gilligan
  4. Antonyms, synonyms, reported speech and editing
  5. Sanchi, grief and the Jatakas

Unit 9 (The Proposal)

  1. Faces and the farce
  2. How can we control anger?
  3. Krishnamurti on violence
  4. Word forms, reported speech and sentence building
  5. Vanka, debates and letters