REVISION LIST: GRADE 10 – ANNUAL EXAMINATIONS – 2006-2007
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
GRAMMAR
Verb tenses:
Regular & irregular verbs, Present & past tenses, Grammar In Use, appendices 1 & 2.
Present simple, present continuous, GIU, units 3 & 4.
Present perfect simple, present perfect continuous, GIU, 7-10, 13, 14.
Past simple, past continuous, past perfect simple, GIU, 5 & 6, 15.
Future tenses – simple, perfect, continuous – AND
future forms – present continuous, present simple, ‘going to’,
GIU, 19- 24, app 3.
Short/contracted verb forms, GIU, app 5.
Conditional forms, GIU, 38 & 39 (OE: 37, 38).
‘Have got, ‘have’, GIU, 17.
‘Used to’, GIU, 18.
Interrogatives, GIU, 49 (OE: 48).
Relative clauses, GIU, 92 & 93 (OE : 91 & 92).
Adjectives (comparative & superlative), adverbs, handout.
Question tags, GIU, 52 (OE: 51).
Reported speech, GIU, 47 & 48 (OE: 46 & 47).
Active, passive, causative forms, GIU, 42-44, 46 (OE: 41-43, 45).
Defining, non-defining clauses, GIU, 95 (OE: 94).
Countable, uncountable nouns, GIU, 69 & 70, 87 (OE: 68 & 69, 86).
‘Ed-’ / ‘-ing’, adjectives, GIU, 98 (OE: 97).
Possessives, GIU, 81 (OE: 80).
Prepositions, GIU, 121-136 – selection (OE: 120-135 – selection).
Linkers (connectives), handouts.
Modal verbs, GIU, 26, 28, 31-33, app 4.
Phrasal verbs, GIU, 137-145 – selection (OE: Refer to NE textbook handouts).
Refer to homework, class work, and revision grammar exercises.
VOCABULARY
Idioms, ‘The Elements’, ‘Colour’, ‘Finger, thumb, hand’, ‘Back’, ‘Bones’,
‘Boats and Sailing’, ‘Time 2’, ‘Nature’, handouts
Prefixes, suffixes, handouts
Nouns made from adjectives, handouts
Problem pairs, handouts
Culture: Education, Climate, handout
Refer to homework vocabulary exercises and to dictionary (handout) and
spelling (GIU, app 6) aids.
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REVISION LIST – GRADE 10 (continued)
WRITING
Essay writing: Descriptive, narrative, report, reflective, discursive, argumentative.
Book reviews: Factual.
Letter writing: Formal, informal.
Refer to handouts – writing and punctuation guidelines – and to homework
tasks – essay-, review-, letter-writing.
ENGLISH LITERATURE
PROSE
‘Modern Short Stories’ (ed.)
‘The Parsley Garden’ – William Saroyan
‘Growing up’ – Joyce Cary
‘Pity’ – Frank O’Connor
‘Superman and Paula Brown’s New Snowsuit’ – Sylvia Plath
‘The Trout’ – Sean O’Faolain
Focus on setting, themes and diction, plot structure, and authors’ reflections and
emotions. Refer to notes taken down during class explanation and to the
homework comprehension questions.
POETRY
‘New Dragon Book of Verse’ (eds.)
‘The Eagle’ – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
‘Composed upon Westminster Bridge’ – William Wordsworth
‘The Sea’ – James Reeves
‘The Night Mail’ – W. H. Auden
‘Wind’ – Ted Hughes
‘Pigeons’ – Richard Kell
‘The Donkey’ – G. K. Chesterton
‘Sea-fever’ – John Masefield
Focus on the three themes and on the poet’s diction, tone, thoughts, and feelings
on the subject. Refer to the ‘Poetry’ handout, to notes taken down during class
explanation, and to homework – ‘How does the poem work?’.
DRAMA
‘Twelfth Night: Or What You Will’, William Shakespeare
Acts 1, 2, and 3: selected scenes as indicated in class.
Focus on characters, title, themes – comedy, disguise, love, puritan, jester –
diction, dramatic irony. Refer to notes taken down during class explanation, to
Homework comprehension questions, and to personal notes.