CBSE Class 10 - English - Chapter 10 - THE SERMON AT BENARES (Q & A) (#class10English)(#cbsenotes)(#eduvictors)

 CBSE Class 10 - English - Chapter 10 - THE SERMON AT BENARES (Q & A)

Q1: Who was Gautama Buddha? When and where was he born?

Answer: Gautama Buddha was a prince who was named Siddhartha Gautam by his parents. He was born in 563 B.C. in North India. He had been shielded from the sufferings of the world. He attained enlightenment under a peepal tree and named it as ‘Tree of Wisdom’.

Q2: When her son dies, Kisa Gotami goes from house to house. What does she ask for? Does she get it? Why not?

Answer: When Kisa Gotami’s son died, she went from house to house, she asked for some medicine that would cure her child.

No, she did not get it because her child was dead and no medicine could have brought him back to life.

CBSE Class 10 English Preboard Sample Question Paper (Set-1) 2020-21 (#class10English)(#cbsepapers)(#eduvictors)

Class 10 English Preboard Sample Question Paper  (Set-1) 2020-21

Learning is a continual process. To improve scores, the best way is to learn and practice. Solving question papers help students to evaluate their knowledge and familarise with different types of question patterns being asked in examination. 

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CBSE Class 12 and Class 10 - 2020-21 Examination Date Sheet (#eduvictors)(#cbse)(#cbsedatesheet)

CBSE Class 12 and Class 10 - 2020-21 Examination Date Sheet

 

CBSE has released date sheet for Senior Seconadry (Class 12) and Secondary (Class 1) Annual Examination (2020-21) on its website (cbse.gov.in or cbse.nic.in)

CBSE 10th board exams 2021 will be conducted from 4 May 2021 to 7 June 2021. CBSE 12th board exams 2021 will be conducted from 4 May 2021 to 11 June 2021. CBSE

Here follows the date sheet:

Class 10 - Information Technology - Functional English - Simple Future Tense - Worksheet (#class10IT)(#EnglishWorksheet)(#eduvictors)

 Class 10 - Information Technology - Functional English - Simple Future Tense - Worksheet 

The future tense is the verb tense used to describe a future event or state of being.

The use of words like will and shall denote the future time of action.

e.g.

I shall write a letter. (Simple Future)

I shall be writing a letter.  (Future Continuous)

I shall have written a letter.   (Future Perfect Tense)

I shall have been writing a letter.  (Future Perfect Continuous)

Exercise: From the following options, select and tick the one that is in the simple future tense.

CBSE Class 10 Sample Question Papers (2020-21) With Marking Schemes PDF Files (#cbse2020-21)(#cbsesamplepapers)(#eduvictors)

CBSE Class 10 Sample Question Papers (2020-21) With Marking Schemes PDF Files

CBSE has issued new CBSE Sample Papers 2020-21 on Oct 9, 2020 and has also issued a notification regarding this. CBSE Sample Papers 2020-21 for tenth and twelfth are presently the most significant assets for the up and coming CBSE Board Exams 2021 readiness.With the new CBSE Making Scheme 2020-21, students will get a total thought regarding the method of composing good responses in the answer sheet. It also helps undoubtedly comprehending the significant points that must be written in answer books to score maximum marks.

You can download the Question Papers and Marking Scheme PDF files from here: 

English Reading Comprehension (Set-16) - for Class 9 and 10 (#readingcomprehension)(#eduvictors)(#class10English)

English Reading Comprehension (Set-16) - for Class 9 and 10 

Directions: (CBSE 2019-2020 SQP) Read the passage carefully and answers the questions following the passage.

Red Cross: How Hope Evolved

On June 24, 1859, Emperors Napoleon III and Franz Joseph I were engaged in the Battle of Solferino,

commanding a combined total of about 270,000 troops onto the field for a single day of battle. Nearly 40,000 were either dead, injured, or missing and many of them were simply left to die on the battlefield. Later, spectators crowded the fields, looking for loved ones, searching for items they could sell, or for simply taking in the horrors of the battle. A Swiss businessman and social activist Jean Henri Dunant, who was traveling in Solferino witnessed all this.

English Grammar - Editing Exercise (Part - 6) (#editningexercises)(#class10English)(#eduvictors)(#class9English)

 English Grammar - Editing Exercise (Part - 6)

Q1. The following passage has not been edited. There is one error in each line. Underline each error and write your correction in the space provided. The first correction has been done as an example. (4 marks)

	Error	Correction
Sachn Tendulkar is a best	__a__	__the__
cricketer in India. He has play for	_________	_________
more than 20 years on the country	_________	_________
He retired from the games	_________	_________
last year. He is know for	_________	_________
his skill in batting or fielding.	_________	_________

CBSE Class 10 - English Literature (First Flight) - Poem: Amanda (Theme, Summary, MCQs and Questions and Answers)(#class10English)(#eduvictors)(#cbsenotes)

Poem: Amanda (Theme, Summary, MCQs and Questions and Answers)

CBSE Class 10 - English Literature (First Flight)

Poetess: 

Robin Mc Maugh Klein is an Australian author of books for children. She writes Children’s and young adult fiction. Some of her famous books are Hating Alison Ashley, People might hear you, etc.

Theme / Central Idea of the poem

The greatest wealth that a child wants to possess is his/her freedom. The things that he doesn’t like is constant nagging, unwanted instructions and even over-protection from parents. Like every child Amanda also romanticizes to enjoy her world of dreams, doesn’t want anyone to interfere in her life or curtail her freedom. She doesn’t want to grow up rather enjoy her childhood for a little longer.

Poem: A Tiger In The Zoo (Theme, Summary and Important Points)-CBSE Class 10 - English Literature (First Flight) - (#eduvictors)(#class10English)(#cbse2020)

Poem: A Tiger In The Zoo (Theme, Summary and Important Points)

CBSE Class 10 - English Literature (First Flight) 

Poet: George Leslie Norris (1921-2006) was a prize winning Welsh poet and short story writer. He is considered as most important Welsh writers of the post war period and his literary works have won many prizes. His famous works are Finding Gold, The loud winder, phoenix living poets series: Ransoms, etc.

A Tiger in the Zoo 

He stalks in his vivid stripes

The few steps of his cage,

On pads of velvet quiet,

In his quiet rage.

...

He hears the last voice at night,

The patrolling cars,

And stares with his brilliant eyes

At the brilliant stars.

~Leslie Norris

About the poem:

The poem explains the agony and helplessness of a caged tiger that lives in a zoo. The poet explains what his life would have been if he had been a free animal. He has tried to explain about the condition of animals that are caged by human beings for their own fun.

English Grammar - A Worksheet on Pronouns For Class 6, 7 and 8 (#pronouns)(#eduvictors)(#englishgrammar)

English Grammar - A Worksheet on Pronouns For Class 6, 7 and 8 

A pronoun is a word used in the place of noun. 

Q1: In the following sentences, underline the subject pronouns and circle the object pronouns.

①  We thanked her for the delicious supper.

②  She regularly consults her accountant for taxation.

③  It is a beautiful doll.

④  We gave them gifts and souvenirs.

⑤  They organised the event.

Following are the kinds of pronouns:

   - Personal

   - Possessive

   - Demonstrative

   - Relative

   - Interrogative

   - Reflexive and Emphatic

   - Distributive

   - Indefinite

CBSE Class 10 - English (Lit.) - First flight – Chapter 3: Two Stories about Flying (MCQs)(#class10EnglishNotes)(#cbsenotes)(#eduvictors)

 Class 10 - English (Literature) - First Flight – Chapter 3: Two Stories about Flying (MCQs)

Directions: Read the questions carefully and choose the right choice from the given choices in the question.

Q1:  Who is the author of "His First Flight"?

 (A) Liam O' Flaherty

 (B) Frederick Forsyth

 (C) Roal Dahl

 (D) Paulo Coehlo

Q2: The lesson "His First Flight" is about a ______

  (A) pilot

  (B) seagull

  (C) parrot

  (D) pigeon

CBSE Class 10 - English Literature - Chapter: The Hundred Dresses - 1 (Chapter Summary)(#cbse)(#class10English)(#eduvictors)

The Hundred Dresses - 1 (Chapter Summary)

CBSE Class 10 - English Literature

Chapter Summary

The story is about a quiet and shy girl named Wanda Petronski, a Polish immigrant, who had come to America with her family. She studied in an American town with American children who found her name to be strange and funny. She was a poor girl, who kept to herself and lived in Boggins Heights. She was always seen wearing a faded blue dress. She didn't have many friends and she used to sit on the backbenches. She always kept a low profile. Her classmates prodded her because she claimed to have a hundred dresses “all lined up” in her closet. But she was always seen wearing a blue one. Peggy and Maddie were her best friends and they used to tease Wanda the most. Peggy was the most famous girl in school while anyone barely knew Wanda.

English Reading Comprehension (Set-15) - for Class 9 and 10 (#readingcomprehension)(#eduvictors)(#class10English)

English Reading Comprehension (Set-15)

The word ‘comprehension’ signifies to completely comprehend the content utilizing one's insight.  A comprehension passage is a textual content set for checking out the reader’s potential to recognise (apprehend) the meaning being implied by means of the textual content and the subject matter of that unique passage. Questions based on a passage generally appear as a chronological relationship with the passage. Usually, the first question has the answer in the initial paragraphs and so on but if the answers are inferential then the complete answer might have to be gathered from various paragraphs and for this, one has to be thorough with the entire passage.


(SQP 2019)Read the following passage carefully:

1. Few guessed that this quiet, parentless girl growing up in New York City would one day become the First Lady of the United States. Even fewer thought she would become an author and lecturer and a woman much admired and loved by people throughout the world.

Download NCERT eBooks For Class 9 and 10 (#eduvictors)(#cbsenotes)

Download NCERT eBooks For Class 9 and 10

Most of the subjects covered under CBSE syllabus, NCERT books are recommended. These books have been an essential part of the CBSE curriculum.

Here are the links provided to download the NCERT Textbooks in PDF format from the NCERT website. NCERT is an autonomous organization that is responsible for preparing the curriculum and setting the academic standards for CBSE Class 1 to Class 12. Every effort has been made to provide you the correct link. However, it is advised to strictly follow the syllabus published by the Board for a particular academic year.

A Black Sheep (English Idioms and Phrases)(#eduvictors)(#englishidioms)

A Black Sheep

Meaning:

Class 12 English - Important Topics For Articles/Speech (2019-2020)(#eduvictors)(#class12English)

Class 12 English - Important Topics For Articles/Speech (2019-2020)

Here are important topics for articles or speeches suggested:


1. Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Media

2. Advantages and social disadvantages of mobile phones/Social networking sites.
    OR
    Staying Vigilant While On Social Media

3. Cyber crime

4. Artificial Intelligence

5. PUB (Games) Addition and Harmful effects on children

6. Need to strengthen measures to curb bullying

7. Demonetisation - Its impact on Indian Society and Economy

A Baker's Dozen = 13 (English Idioms and Phrases)(#eduvictors)(#englishidioms)

A Baker's Dozen = 13 

English Idioms and Phrases

CBSE Class 10 English (Lang. & Lit.) Grammar - Gap Filling Exercises (Cloze Test - Set 5 )(#eduvictors)(#cbseClass10English)

Class 10 English (Lang. & Lit.) Grammar - Gap Filling Exercises 

(Cloze Test - Set 5 )

Complete the paragraph given below by filling in the blanks with the help of options that follow: 

Q1(CBSE 2017):  I met a smart young person ____(a)_____ wanted a ‘selfie’ _____(b)_____ me. So we _____(c)______ on top of a boundary wall

(a)    (i) which (ii) who (iii) whose (iv) whom

(b) (i) with (ii) on (iii) for (iv) to

(c) (i) sit (ii) sits (iii) sat (iv) sitting

CBSE Class 6 - 8 English Grammar - Forming Comparative and Superlative Adjectives (Worksheet) (#englishgrammar)(#eduvictors)

Forming Comparative and Superlative Adjectives (Worksheet)

CBSE Class 6 - 8 English Grammar

Fill in the blanks with suitable adjective forms.

1. Meena is _________ than Manoj (tall).

2. Meena is __________ of all the students. (tall)

3. My hair is _________ than your hair.

4. Radha is ______ than his brother. (wise)

5. Of all the students in the class, Roma is ___________. (thin)

CBSE Class 10/9/8 - English - Reading Comprehension (Unseen Passage) (Set-14)(#eduvictors)(#readingComprehension)

English - Reading Comprehension 

(Unseen Passage) (Set-14)

For CBSE Class 8 - 10

Reading comprehension is an ability to read content, comprehend its significance, and to incorporate with what the reader knows already.

The motivation behind reading  is comprehension, that is, to be able to gather meaning from the passage text. Comprehension skills don't naturally evolve, it requires practice and one has to enhance word recognition and vocabulary skills. Students need to learn techniques to assist them with turning out to be dynamic reader who comprehend and understand the content very well.

Reading comprehension depends on the reader’s experience, knowledge of language and recognition of syntactic structure.
To solve reading comprehension, follow these steps:

Step 1: Read the entire passage at a moderate pace (not very slow not very fast)
Step 2: Try to identify main points and summarize the contents of each paragraph in your own words.
Step 3: Do some doodling on rough sheet i,e, create graphic organisers (webs, cause and effect charts, outlines) 
Step 4: Try to map a story.
Step 5: For data or date related passages, do mental maths quickly.
Step 6: Don’t make conclusions which are not in the comprehension.
Step 7: Answer the questions by eliminating the wrong options.


Question 1:  Read the passage given below and complete the statements that follow:

(1) Tourists to Jammu and Kashmir have another attraction – a floating post office on the Dal Lake in Srinagar, the first in the country. ‘Floating Post Office, Dal Lake’ – claimed to be the only one such post office in the world – is built on an intricately carved maroon houseboat, fastened on the western edge of the Dal Lake.