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Grade 10 English, Explained

A companion to Nepal’s Grade 10 English: every reading text explained part by part in our own words, the hard words, every exercise answered, the grammar made clear, and each writing task taught with a plan and a model. Written as practice for the SEE, for students with any Grade 10 English book.

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  1. Unit 1 Current Affairs and Issues A car with no driver, and children writing to the UN: how do you read the news closely and report what people said without changing its meaning? Reported speech: statements  
  2. Unit 2 Festivals and Celebrations Why would a town pelt each other with oranges, and how does the world give thanks for the harvest? And what changes when you pass on a question? Reported speech: questions  
  3. Unit 3 Health and Wellness What makes a family feel cared for in hospital, and what keeps us well in body and mind? How do you pass on a doctor’s order in your own words? Reported speech: commands  
  4. Unit 4 Work and Leisure Is a clever shortcut worth more than honest toil? A girl’s wild plan to save a cabbage farm, and a poet who finds God among working people. Modal verbs  
  5. Unit 5 Science and Experiment Can water boil without being heated? A physicist answers with a syringe, a poet with the voice of the rain. Conditional sentences  
  6. Unit 6 Food and Cuisine Fried crickets or haggis? One person’s strange food is another’s favorite, and a boy from Siraha took Nepal’s food to London’s top kitchens. Connectives of reason and purpose  
  7. Unit 7 Cyber Security A father watches for the stranger his daughter met online, while someone in a dark car watches him. Who is the danger, and how do you stay safe? Modal verbs  
  8. Unit 8 Hobbies and Interests What do you do when nobody tells you what to do? A hobby you choose for joy can teach patience, take you higher, and even lead to a career. Active and passive voice  
  9. Unit 9 History and Culture The temples we pass and the flowers we give carry the past: how did a poet-king shape Kathmandu, and how do we tell what happened first? Past tenses  
  10. Unit 10 Games and Sports Did the Olympic Games begin with a chariot race and a pin of candle wax? Why do billions love sport, and how do we say what has happened? Present perfect tenses  
  11. Unit 11 Ethics and Morality Two little girls forget a quarrel while their village nearly comes to blows: who is wiser? What is fair, and how do we comfort the grieving? Negation  
  12. Unit 12 Nature and Development A fast road to bring the Terai an hour from Kathmandu: blessing or curse? And why a poet found a sleeping city as lovely as any valley. Future tenses  
  13. Unit 13 Population and Migration Will there be ten billion of us, and why do so many young Nepalis leave home? And how do birds cross oceans and mountains without a map? Connectives of contradiction  
  14. Unit 14 Travel and Adventure Kathmandu, Chitwan and Pokhara through a visitor’s eyes: what makes a trip worth telling? And how does “isn’t it?” ask you to agree? Question tags  
  15. Unit 15 People and Places How did Jhamak Ghimire, who could neither speak nor walk, become a writer? Describing people and places with who, which, whose, where. Relative clauses  
  16. Unit 16 Success and Celebration Walt Disney failed again and again before Disneyland: what does success take? Congratulating someone, and at, in or on. Prepositions  
  17. Unit 17 Countries and Towns London or Paris: which is bigger, cheaper, friendlier? How do adjectives, adverbs and comparisons weigh two places? Adjectives and adverbs  
  18. Unit 18 Media and Entertainment A dog waits nine years at a station: how do you review a film? Asking good questions, and saying who got what done. Questions  

Practice

How to use this book

Each unit follows a unit of CDC’s English textbook, in its order, with the textbook’s page numbers under its title. The reading texts aren’t reprinted here: read them in your textbook, then use the unit to understand them. Inside you’ll find:

  • The texts explained part by part: what each part says, how it is written, and the hard words, linked to English Vocabulary.
  • Every exercise answered: try it first; the answer stays hidden until you open it.
  • Grammar explained with examples, then more practice on English Grammar.
  • Writing tasks (letters, articles, stories, essays) with a plan, a model and the mistakes that cost marks.
  • Listening and speaking turned into things you can practise on your own.

A companion to your textbook by Science Playground, not published by or connected with CDC, and not a replacement for the textbook: study from the book your school uses, and where the two differ, follow your teacher. Every fact here has been checked against the textbook and other reliable sources, but these pages have not yet been reviewed by subject experts. If you find a mistake, please tell us.