Syllabus of Uchch Madhyamik Shikshak- English Teacher Selection Test-2023

Syllabus of Uchch Madhyamik Shikshak- English Teacher Selection Test-2023

Subject- English

Unit 1. Reading: Unseen passage (Factual, descriptive or literary) to assess comprehension, interpretation, inference and vocabulary.

Unit 2. Parts of Speech: Noun, Pronoun, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Verb, Adverbs, Adjectives (Determiners, Articles, Degree)

Unit 3. Tense, Subject-Verb Agreement, Non-finite verbs, Non-finite clauses

Unit 4. Transformation of sentences- Negative, Interrogative, Active to Passive, Direct to Indirect Narration

Unit 5. Compound Sentences, Complex Sentences, Clause (Noun Clause, Adjective/ Relative Clause, Adverb Clause)

Unit 6. Vocabulary- Synonyms, Antonyms, One-Word Substitution, Idioms, Phrases, Phrasal Verbs, Homophone, Homonyms, Homographs, Prefix, Suffix

Unit 7. Figures of Speech- Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Paradox, Irony, Hyperbole

Unit 8.

Forms of Poetry: Sonnet, Ode, Elegy, Satire

Literary Devices, Forms of Stanza,

Meter, Foot, Syllable Division, Punctuation

Unit 9. The Fun They Had, A Truly Beautiful Mind, The Snake and Mirror, My Childhood, A Letter to God, From the Diary of Anne Frank, Nelson Mandela- Long Walk to Freedom (Class IX and X SCERT MP)

Unit 10. The Portrait of a Lady, ‘We’re Not Afraid to Die… if we can be together, Discovering Tut: The Saga Continues, The Browning Version, The Adventure, Silk Road (Class XI SCERT MP)

Unit 11. The Last Lesson, Lost Spring, Deep Water, The Rattrap, Indigo, Poets and Pancakes, Going Places (Class XII SCERT MP)

Unit 12. The Road Not Taken, Rain on the Roof, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, Wind, On A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, On Killing a Tree (Class IX SCERT MP)

Unit 13. Dust of Snow, Fire and Ice, A Tiger in the Zoo, The Ball Poem, The Trees, Amanda (Class X SCERT MP)

Unit 14. A Photograph, The Laburnum Top, The Voice of the Rain, Childhood, Father to Son (Class XI SCERT MP)

Unit 15. My Mother at Sixty-Six, Keeping Quiet, An Elementary Classroom in a Slum, A Thing of Beauty, A Roadside Stand, Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers (Class XII SCERT MP)

Unit 16. History of English Literature- Elizabethan Period, Restoration Period, The Victorian Age, The Romantic Age, The Modern Age (renowned authors, poets and their works)

Unit 17. Poetry-

John Milton: On His Blindness

W.B. Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium

William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey

John Donne: Death, Be Not Proud

Unit 18. Prose-

Francis Bacon: Of Truth

Swami Vivekananda: Our Motherland

Bertrand Russell: True Success

Unit 19. Fiction-

E.M. Forster: A Passage to India

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations

Thackeray: Vanity Fair

Unit 20. Drama-

William Shakespeare: Macbeth

William Congreve: The Way of the World

Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus