Class 10 English Tuition — Tamil Nadu (SCERT Board)
A full board-year of English for Class 10 on the Tamil Nadu state syllabus, following the SCERT reader through every prose lesson, poem and supplementary reading. Each is taught over three short days: the lesson, then a sheet marked at once, then a recall round. The grammar the book sets unit by unit — modals, prepositional phrases, tenses, phrases and clauses, pronouns, subject-verb agreement and sentence types — is taught inside the lesson it belongs to.
66 daily sessions of 10–15 minutes. Follows: English, Standard X (SCERT Tamil Nadu — Free Textbook Programme, Revised edition, current print).
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What is covered
66 modules, taught in this order.
- 0115 minDay 1 · Learn · His First Flight (Liam O’Flaherty)
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read the story of a first attempt, and use modals.
- 0215 minDay 2 · Practise · His First Flight (Liam O’Flaherty)
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 0310 minDay 3 · Recall · His First Flight (Liam O’Flaherty)
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 0 questions from earlier units.
- 0415 minDay 4 · Learn · Life (Henry Van Dyke)
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read the poem, and state its argument.
- 0515 minDay 5 · Practise · Life (Henry Van Dyke)
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 0610 minDay 6 · Recall · Life (Henry Van Dyke)
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 1 questions from earlier units.
- 0715 minDay 7 · Learn · The Tempest (from Tales from Shakespeare)
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can follow a Shakespeare plot in prose.
- 0815 minDay 8 · Practise · The Tempest (from Tales from Shakespeare)
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 0910 minDay 9 · Recall · The Tempest (from Tales from Shakespeare)
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 1 questions from earlier units.
- 1015 minDay 10 · Learn · The Night the Ghost Got In (James Thurber)
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read a comic memoir, and use prepositional phrases.
- 1115 minDay 11 · Practise · The Night the Ghost Got In (James Thurber)
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 1210 minDay 12 · Recall · The Night the Ghost Got In (James Thurber)
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 2 questions from earlier units.
- 1315 minDay 13 · Learn · The Grumble Family (L.M. Montgomery)
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read a satirical poem, and name its method.
- 1415 minDay 14 · Practise · The Grumble Family (L.M. Montgomery)
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 1510 minDay 15 · Recall · The Grumble Family (L.M. Montgomery)
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 2 questions from earlier units.
- 1615 minDay 16 · Learn · Zigzag
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can follow a story that does not run straight, and retell it.
- 1715 minDay 17 · Practise · Zigzag
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 1810 minDay 18 · Recall · Zigzag
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 2 questions from earlier units.
- 1915 minDay 19 · Learn · Empowered Women Navigating the World
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read about women who went first, and use the tenses.
- 2015 minDay 20 · Practise · Empowered Women Navigating the World
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 2110 minDay 21 · Recall · Empowered Women Navigating the World
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 2 questions from earlier units.
- 2215 minDay 22 · Learn · I am Every Woman
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read a poem of identity, and hear a voice claim a space.
- 2315 minDay 23 · Practise · I am Every Woman
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 2410 minDay 24 · Recall · I am Every Woman
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 3 questions from earlier units.
- 2515 minDay 25 · Learn · The Story of Mulan
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read a legend, and compare versions of a story.
- 2615 minDay 26 · Practise · The Story of Mulan
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 2710 minDay 27 · Recall · The Story of Mulan
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 3 questions from earlier units.
- 2815 minDay 28 · Learn · The Attic
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read a story of what is kept, and tell phrases from clauses.
- 2915 minDay 29 · Practise · The Attic
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 3010 minDay 30 · Recall · The Attic
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 3 questions from earlier units.
- 3115 minDay 31 · Learn · The Ant and the Cricket
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read a verse fable, and state a moral.
- 3215 minDay 32 · Practise · The Ant and the Cricket
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 3310 minDay 33 · Recall · The Ant and the Cricket
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 3 questions from earlier units.
- 3415 minDay 34 · Learn · The Aged Mother
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read a folk tale about wisdom and age.
- 3515 minDay 35 · Practise · The Aged Mother
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 3610 minDay 36 · Recall · The Aged Mother
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 3 questions from earlier units.
- 3715 minDay 37 · Learn · Tech Bloomers
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read about technology and people, and use pronouns.
- 3815 minDay 38 · Practise · Tech Bloomers
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 3910 minDay 39 · Recall · Tech Bloomers
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 3 questions from earlier units.
- 4015 minDay 40 · Learn · The Secret of the Machines (Rudyard Kipling)
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read Kipling’s poem, and hear machines speak.
- 4115 minDay 41 · Practise · The Secret of the Machines (Rudyard Kipling)
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 4210 minDay 42 · Recall · The Secret of the Machines (Rudyard Kipling)
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 3 questions from earlier units.
- 4315 minDay 43 · Learn · A Day in 2889 of an American Journalist (Jules Verne)
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read an old prediction, and judge it.
- 4415 minDay 44 · Practise · A Day in 2889 of an American Journalist (Jules Verne)
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 4510 minDay 45 · Recall · A Day in 2889 of an American Journalist (Jules Verne)
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 3 questions from earlier units.
- 4615 minDay 46 · Learn · The Last Lesson (Alphonse Daudet)
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read Daudet’s story, and get subject-verb agreement right.
- 4715 minDay 47 · Practise · The Last Lesson (Alphonse Daudet)
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 4810 minDay 48 · Recall · The Last Lesson (Alphonse Daudet)
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 3 questions from earlier units.
- 4915 minDay 49 · Learn · No Men Are Foreign (James Kirkup)
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read Kirkup’s poem, and follow its argument.
- 5015 minDay 50 · Practise · No Men Are Foreign (James Kirkup)
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 5110 minDay 51 · Recall · No Men Are Foreign (James Kirkup)
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 3 questions from earlier units.
- 5215 minDay 52 · Learn · The Little Hero of Holland
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read a legend of duty, and write a report.
- 5315 minDay 53 · Practise · The Little Hero of Holland
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 5410 minDay 54 · Recall · The Little Hero of Holland
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 3 questions from earlier units.
- 5515 minDay 55 · Learn · The Dying Detective (Arthur Conan Doyle)
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read a detective story, and build sentence types.
- 5615 minDay 56 · Practise · The Dying Detective (Arthur Conan Doyle)
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 5710 minDay 57 · Recall · The Dying Detective (Arthur Conan Doyle)
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 3 questions from earlier units.
- 5815 minDay 58 · Learn · The House on Elm Street
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read a poem about an empty house, and hear its atmosphere.
- 5915 minDay 59 · Practise · The House on Elm Street
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 6010 minDay 60 · Recall · The House on Elm Street
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 3 questions from earlier units.
- 6115 minDay 61 · Learn · A Dilemma
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can read about a hard choice, and argue both sides.
- 6215 minDay 62 · Practise · A Dilemma
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 6310 minDay 63 · Recall · A Dilemma
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 3 questions from earlier units.
- 6415 minDay 64 · Learn · The whole Class 10 board syllabus
About 15 minutes. By the end of this unit you can gather the year for the examination.
- 6515 minDay 65 · Practise · The whole Class 10 board syllabus
About 15 minutes, ending in a sheet marked the moment you submit it.
- 6610 minDay 66 · Recall · The whole Class 10 board syllabus
About 10 minutes: read aloud, then 3 questions from earlier units.