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CBSE Class 10 Sample / Model Paper 2024 : English Language & Literature : English language and literature

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Senthil Kumar
Sri Swamy International School, Salem
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CHENNAI SAHODAYA SCHOOLS COMPLEX (General Instructions) This question paper contains 11 printed pages. This question paper contains IX questions. Write down the question number before attempting. 15 minute prior reading time allotted for Question paper reading. The question paper contains three sections- reading, grammar& writing and literature Attempt questions based on specific instructions for each part. COMMON EXAMINATION Class-10 (ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE / 184) SET - III Time Allowed: 3 hours Roll No.: Maximum Marks: 80 Date: 23.01.2023 Section A- Reading skills (20 MARKS) I. Read the following passage (10 marks) 1. The Indian subcontinent consists of a number of separate linguistic communities, each of which share a common language and culture. The people of India speak many languages and dialects which are mostly varieties of about fourteen principle languages. Some Indian languages have a long literary history; Sanskrit literature is three thousand years old and Tamil two thousand years. India also has some languages that do not have a written form. 2. The number of people speaking each language varies greatly. For example, Hindi has more than two hundred and fifty million speakers, but relatively few people speak Andamanese. Although some of the languages are called Tribal or aboriginal , their population may be larger than those that speak some European language. For example, Bhili and Santali, both tribal languages, each have more than 4 million speakers. Gondi is spoken by nearly two million people. 3. India's schools teach fifty-eight different languages. The nation has newspapers in eighty-seven languages, radio programs in seventy-one languages and films in fifteen languages. 4. The Indian languages belong to four language families: Indo- European, Dravidian, MonKhmer and Sino- Tibetan. Indo-European and Dravidian languages are used by a large majority of India s population. The language families divide roughly into geographic groups. The languages of the Indo-European group are spoken mainly in Northern and Central regions. The languages of southern India are mainly of the Dravidian group. Some ethnic groups in Assam and other parts of Eastern India speak languages of the Mon-Khmer group. People in the Northern Himalayan region and near Burmese border speak Sino-Tibetan languages. 5. Speakers of fifty-four different languages of the Indo- European family make up about three quarters of India's population. Twenty Dravidian languages are spoken by nearly a quarter of the people. Speakers of twenty Mon-Khmer languages and Sino-Tibetan languages together make up about two percent of the population. 1

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