English — Revision Checklist
All prose, poetry, grammar, and comprehension topics for TS Inter 1st Year English revision — prioritised by TGBIE exam weight.
Prose — All 5 Texts
High- Father, Dear Father — central theme, character sketch of the father, important quotes
- The Green Champion, Thimmakka — key events, her contribution to environment, moral of the lesson
- The First Four Minutes — Roger Bannister's achievement, psychological barriers, key vocabulary
- The Noble Nature — theme, central message, author's tone
- Box and Cox (One Act Play) — characters, plot, source of humour, theme of coincidence
Poetry — All 5 Poems
High- Keep Going — stanza-wise meaning, theme of perseverance, tone
- Playing the Game — what the 'game' represents, central idea, key lines
- Happiness — how the poet defines happiness, contrast with worldly happiness
- The Beggar — theme, moral, emotions evoked
- The Dinner Party — social commentary, theme, key image
Short Stories
High- The Five Boons of Life — what the five boons are, which boon the man chose finally, moral
- The Short-sighted Brothers — plot, conflict, resolution, moral lesson
Grammar — Tenses and Transformation
High- All 12 tenses: present/past/future × simple/continuous/perfect/perfect-continuous
- Active and Passive voice: know transformations for all tenses
- Transformation: simple ↔ compound ↔ complex sentences
- Degrees of comparison: positive ↔ comparative ↔ superlative transformations
- Affirmative ↔ Negative ↔ Interrogative transformation
- Reported speech (Indirect): changes in pronoun, tense, time expressions
Grammar — Articles and Prepositions
Medium- Articles: 'a' before consonant sound, 'an' before vowel sound; 'the' for specific/known noun
- No article: before proper nouns, languages, meals, subjects of study in general
- Prepositions of time: in (months, years), on (days, dates), at (specific time)
- Prepositions of place: in (enclosed), on (surface), at (specific point)
- Common preposition collocations: interested in, afraid of, responsible for, depend on
Comprehension and Word Grammar
Medium- Reading comprehension: practice finding main idea, supporting details, inference
- Vocabulary: synonyms, antonyms, contextual meaning of underlined words
- Correction of sentences: subject-verb agreement, article usage, tense consistency
- Word forms: noun/verb/adjective/adverb forms of common words