1Chapter 1 - Reading: Seen Texts from the TextbookComprehension of the poems, stories and articles in the Grade 10 textbook — the only part of the reading paper that is set from material you have already studied.Board exam — 15 marksView topicsHide topics
Poems
Stories and extracts
Essays and articles
Answering in your own words
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2Chapter 2 - Reading: Unseen Short TextsA 200-word text you have never seen — a notice, advertisement, letter, news story, recipe, manual, diary entry or interview — with two types of comprehension question.Board exam — 10 marksView topicsHide topics
Notices and advertisements
Letters and emails
News stories
Recipes, manuals and product guides
Diary entries and interviews
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3Chapter 3 - Reading: Unseen Long TextsA 300-word text you have never seen — a biography, essay, article, review, travelogue, editorial or report — carrying the paper's heaviest reading section.Board exam — Reading 4, 15 marks across 2 chaptersView topicsHide topics
Biography and autobiography
Essays and articles
Science articles
Book and film reviews
Travelogues, editorials and reports
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4Chapter 4 - Reading: Vocabulary in ContextWorking out what a word means from the text around it. The chart allows this test type in Reading 4 only, so it is worth 5 of the paper's 75 marks and no more.Board exam — Reading 4, 15 marks across 2 chaptersView topicsHide topics
Matching words to meanings
Meaning from context
Words in a text about a life
Words in a factual text
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5Chapter 5 - Guided Writing: Paragraphs and Describing ChartsA 100-word paragraph built from clues, or a description of a table, chart or diagram — writing where the content is given and the marks are for shaping it.Board exam — Guided writing I, 5 marks across 2 chaptersView topicsHide topics
7Chapter 7 - Guided Writing: News, Stories, Messages and BiographyWriting up something that happened, or writing to someone about it — a news story, a story from a skeleton outline, a message, an invitation, or a short life.Board exam — 5 marksView topicsHide topics
News story
Skeleton story
Message of condolence
Message of congratulations
Invitation and thank-you letters
Short biography
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8Chapter 8 - Free Writing: Paragraphs of Views, Opinion and ExperienceAbout 150 words in your own words on what you think, feel or have lived through. Nothing is given to you but the topic, so organisation is what earns the marks.Board exam — Free writing I, 6 marks across 3 chaptersView topicsHide topics
Presenting a view
Giving an opinion with reasons
Writing about an experience
Writing about a feeling
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9Chapter 9 - Free Writing: Leave and Job ApplicationsThe two applications the chart names. Both have a fixed layout — address, date, salutation, subject line, body, closing — and losing the layout loses marks.Board exam — Free writing I, 6 marks across 3 chaptersView topicsHide topics
Leave application
Job application
Layout of a formal application
Curriculum vitae details
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10Chapter 10 - Free Writing: DialogueA conversation written out in turns. The SEE 2082 Bagmati paper asked for at least six exchanges, so the count of turns is part of the task, not a suggestion.Board exam — Free writing I, 6 marks across 3 chaptersView topicsHide topics
Dialogue layout
Opening and closing a conversation
Agreeing and disagreeing
Making and responding to suggestions
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11Chapter 11 - Free Writing: Letters, Personal, Official and to the EditorThe paper's heaviest writing task at 8 marks. A personal letter, an official one, or a letter to the editor of a newspaper — three registers, three layouts.Board exam — Free writing II, 8 marks across 4 chaptersView topicsHide topics
Personal letter
Official letter
Letter to the editor
Formal and informal register
Layout and addresses
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12Chapter 12 - Free Writing: Email, Diary and Newspaper ArticleThree modern forms the chart names for the 8-mark task, each with a shape a marker looks for: subject line, dated entry, headline and byline.Board exam — Free writing II, 8 marks across 4 chaptersView topicsHide topics
Email
Diary entry
Newspaper article
Headlines and bylines
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13Chapter 13 - Free Writing: Essays, Narrative, Argumentative and DescriptiveAbout 200 words of continuous writing in one of the three kinds the chart names. Each kind is organised differently, and writing the wrong kind costs marks.Board exam — Free writing II, 8 marks across 4 chaptersView topicsHide topics
Narrative essay
Argumentative essay
Descriptive essay
Introduction, body and conclusion
Linking ideas
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14Chapter 14 - Free Writing: Book and Film ReviewsSaying what a book or film is, and what you made of it. The chart lists reviews in both Reading 4 and Free writing II, so the same form is read and written.Board exam — Free writing II, 8 marks across 4 chaptersView topicsHide topics
Book review
Film review
Summary without spoiling
Giving a judgement with reasons
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15Chapter 15 - Grammar: Tense and Subject-Verb AgreementChoosing and forming the right tense, and making the verb agree with its subject. Both appear in the transformation task and in the contextual multiple choice.Board exam — Grammar, 11 marks across 7 chaptersView topicsHide topics
Present tenses
Past tenses
Future forms
Subject-verb agreement
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16Chapter 16 - Grammar: Question Tags, Interrogation and NegationTurning a statement into a question, a tag or a negative. The transformation task has asked for all three, on both the CDC model paper and the 2082 Bagmati paper.Board exam — Grammar, 11 marks across 7 chaptersView topicsHide topics
Question tags
Yes/no questions
Wh- questions
Negation
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17Chapter 17 - Grammar: Reported SpeechReporting what somebody said without quoting them — the shifts in tense, pronoun, time and place that a marker checks one by one.Board exam — Grammar, 11 marks across 7 chaptersView topicsHide topics
Reporting statements
Reporting questions
Reporting commands and requests
Changes of time and place
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18Chapter 18 - Grammar: VoiceActive into passive and back. Both papers in evidence set a voice transformation, and both used a simple present or past sentence.Board exam — Grammar, 11 marks across 7 chaptersView topicsHide topics
Active to passive
Passive to active
Passive with two objects
When the passive is used
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19Chapter 19 - Grammar: Articles, Prepositions and DeterminersThe small words that carry a mark each in the contextual passage: a, an, the or none at all, and the preposition that goes with a word rather than with logic.Board exam — Grammar, 5 marks across 7 chaptersView topicsHide topics
a, an, the and zero article
Prepositions of time
Prepositions of place
Prepositions after verbs and adjectives
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20Chapter 20 - Grammar: Connectives, Conditionals, Modals and CausativesJoining ideas and shading meaning — because and although, the three conditionals, must and might, and having something done by somebody else.Board exam — Grammar, 5 marks across 7 chaptersView topicsHide topics
