San Andrea Senior School
Revision List
English – Grade 10
Annual Examinations June 2004
English Language
GRAMMAR
Verb tenses:
Regular & irregular verbs, Grammar In Use, appendix 1, 2
Present perfect simple, present perfect continuous, GIU, units 10
Past Simple, Past perfect simple, GIU, 13, 14,15
Present participles, GIU, 67
Future forms, GIU, 19, 20, 21, 24, app 3
Conditional forms, GIU 37, 38, 25
Short/contracted forms, GIU, app 5
‘Used to’, GIU, 18
Passive, causative, GIU, 41, 42, 45
Prepositions, GIU, 120, 121
Direct, reported speech, GIU, 46, 47
Wh-question words, GIU 48
Relative clauses, GIU, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95
Adjectives, adverbs, GIU, 99, 100
Articles, GIU, 76, 77, 78
Quantifiers, GIU, 86
Modal verbs, GIU, 28, 29, 31, app 4
Genitive, GIU, 80
Countable/uncountable, GIU, 68, 69
Linking words/connectives, GIU, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116
Question tags, GIU, 51
Relative clauses, GIU, 91, 92, 93
Punctuation, Heinemann, page 188
N.B. Refer to class tests (handouts), additional exercises on GIU.
VOCABULARY
Problem pairs, handouts.
Idioms of comparison, handouts
Group words, handouts
Prefixes and suffixes, handouts
Climate, handouts
Phrasal verbs, GIU,136
WRITING
Essay writing: Descriptive, narrative, reflective, argumentative, handouts and teacher’s comments
on ‘Creative writing’ copybook.
Letter writing: Informal, formal, handout and teacher’s comments on ‘Creative writing’ copybook.
Book reviews, handouts and teacher’s comments on ‘Creative writing’ copybook.
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English Literature
PROSE
‘Modern Short Stories’
Superman and Paula Brown’s New Snowsuit – Sylvia Plath
The Parsley Garden – William Saroyan
The Trout – Sean O’Faolain
Growing Up – Joyce Cary
The End of Something – Sylvia Plath
N.B. Focus on the themes as well as on the author’s diction and his/her thoughts and
feelings on these theme/s. Refer to personal notes taken down during class explanations
and to the comprehension questions assigned as homework.
POETRY
‘(New) Dragon Book of Verse’
Pigeons – Richard Kell
The Sea – James Reeves
Wind – Ted Hughes
The Donkey – G. K. Chesterton
Humming-Bird – D. H. Lawrence
The Night Mail – W. H. Auden
Work and Play – Ted Hughes
N.B. Focus on the themes of the poems as well as on the poet’s diction and his thoughts
and feelings on these theme/s. Refer to personal notes taken down during class
explanations and to the set of questions on the ‘Poetry’ handout assigned as homework.
DRAMA
‘Ten Stories from Shakespeare’
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
The Merchant of Venice
Macbeth
N.B. Focus on the themes and on the dialogue passages in these adapted stories. Refer to
personal notes taken down during class explanations and to the comprehension questions
assigned as homework.
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