Section-I: General Studies

• Current Affairs – Regional, National & International.
• Indian Constitution; Indian Political System; Governance and Public Policy
• Social Exclusion; Rights issues such as Gender, Caste, Tribe, Disability etc.and inclusive policies.
• Society Culture, Civilization Heritage, Arts and Literature of India and Telangana
• General Science; India’s Achievements in Science and Technology
• Environmental Issues; Disaster Management- Prevention and Mitigation Strategies and Sustainable Development.
• Economic and Social Development of India and Telangana.
• Socio-economic, Political and Cultural History of Telangana with special emphasis on Telangana Statehood Movement and formation of Telangana state.

• Analytical Abilities: Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation
• Moral Values and Professional Ethics in Education
• Teaching Aptitude

School Level English Grammar:

• Articles; Tense; Noun & Pronouns; Adjectives; Adverbs; Verbs
• Modals; Subject-Verb Agreement; Non-Finites; reported speech
• Degrees of Comparison; Active and Passive Voice; Prepositions
• Conjunctions; Conditionals.

Vocabulary:

• Synonyms and Antonyms; Phrasal Verbs; Related Pair of Words
• Idioms and Phrases; Proverbs

Words and Sentences:

• Use of Words ; Choosing Appropriate words and Words often Confused; Sentence Arrangement
• Completion, Fillers and Improvement Transformation of Sentences Comprehension
• Punctuation; Spelling Test; Spotting of Errors.

The Nature of language and its Historical Development ; First Language; Second Language and Third Language ; Different Types of Languages; Mother Tongue; Languages of Different Professions; Importance of languages across School Curriculum; Contributions of Creative Writers.

Values, Aims and Objectives of Teaching Languages

Child Development; Psychology of Teaching and Learning Languages; Language, Thinking and Creativity.

Language Curriculum : Construction Organization and Development

Language Skills; Planning for Effective Instruction in Language Classrooms: Different Plans and Designing Learning Experiences

Approaches, Methods and Techniques of Teaching Languages with special reference to School Content (Prose/Fiction /Poetry/Drama/Essay)

Teaching and Learning Resources and Designing Instructional Material for Languages; Language Labs; Teaching Aids ; Textbooks; ICT in Language Teaching and Learning

Measurement and Evaluation in Languages: Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE); Tools and Techniques of Evaluation; Achievement and Diagnostic Tests.

Learning Disabilities/Difficulties and Education of Exceptional/ Disabled Children in Languages

Language and Everyday Life; Language Issues and Policies. National and State Curriculum frameworks.

Part-A

• Reading Comprehension of unseen passage
• Grammar and Vocabulary.
• Parts of Speech
• Subject and predicate
• Types of sentences – Transformations
• Conjunctions (Linkers; connectors; cohesive devices)
• Verbs (Regular and Irregular) and modals
• Tense and Time
• Prepositions
• Adverbs – types and their order in sentences
• Adjectives including Degrees of Comparison and also Quantifiers
• Articles – Determiners
• Clauses; (Noun Clauses – Adjective clauses; adverbial clauses
• Voice
• Direct and Indirect Speech
• Infinitives; gerunds; participles
• Phrasal verbs
• Idioms ; prepositional phrases ; (Noun phrases; verb phrases; adverbial phrases)
• Forming Questions and Question Tags.;17) Correction of Sentences
• Figures of Speech
• Antonyms
• Synonyms
• Homophones
• Homonyms
• Affixation
• Spelling
• Vocabulary in context
• Proverbs
• One word substitutes
• Composition: Paragraph, essay, expansion, précis, Letter writing, message, notice, article and report writing.
• Vowel and consonant Sounds and phonemes Stress: word and sentence stress
• Intonation
• Four basic patterns of intonation.

PART-B

Literature:

a)Comprehension of Literary prose passage and poem

b)Study of Literary forms:

Poetry: Sonnet, ode, elegy, Ballad, Lyric, Dramatic Monologue

Prose: Drama (Structure, Characters, dialogues, Soliloquy, tragedy, comedy, Tragi-comedy) Fiction: – (point of view, setting atmosphere; style; Technique of Narration.)

Essay Detailed study of English Literature from 1798 to 1900 with special reference to Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, John Keats, Shelly, Lord Byron, Charles Lamb, Charles Dickens, William Hazlitt, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Mathew Arnold, George Eliot, Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin.

The Nature of Physical Sciences and its Historical Development including the contributions of important Physicists and Chemists given in the school textbooks. Importance of Physical Sciences in School Curriculum

Values, Aims and Objectives of Teaching Physical Sciences

Child Development; Psychology of Teaching and Learning Physical Sciences

Physical Sciences Curriculum : Construction ,Organization and Development

Approaches, Methods and Techniques of Teaching Physical Sciences with special reference to Measurement, units and dimensions

Natural Resources, Our Universe; Natural Phenomenon (Light; Heat; and Sound); Mechanics; Magnetism; Electricity and Electro Magnetism

Modern Physics; Electronics and Communication; Matter; Chemical Reactions; Acids and Bases; Atomic Structure

Periodic Classification of Elements; Chemical Bonding; Carbon and its Compounds; and Metallurgy

Environmental Chemistry 6. Planning for Effective Instruction in Physical Sciences: Different Plans and Designing Learning Experiences.

Learning Resources and Designing Instructional Material in Physical Sciences; Physical Science Labs

Teaching Aids ; Textbooks; ICT in Physical Sciences

Measurement and Evaluation in Physical Sciences : Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE)

Tools and Techniques of Evaluation; Achievement and Diagnostic Tests. Learning Disabilities/Difficulties and Education of Exceptional/ Disabled Children in Physical Sciences

Physical Sciences and Everyday Life; Non-formal Physical Sciences Education

• Measurements, Units and Dimensions
• Natural Resources – Air and Water
• Our Universe
• Natural Phenomenon
• Mechanics
• Magnetism
• Electricity & Electro Magnetism
• Modern Physics
• Electronics and Communications
• Matter
• Chemical Reactions
• Acids and Bases, Salts
• Atomic Structure
• Periodic Classification of Elements
• Chemical Bonding
• Carbon and its Compounds
• Environmental Chemistry and Metallurgy

• Diversity of the Earth
• Economic features of India and Telangana
• Empires and World wars
• Service and welfare programmes in India and Telangana
• The Indian constitution – Democracy and Secularism

• Current Affairs – Regional, National & International
• Indian Constitution; Indian Political System; Governance and Public Policy
• Social Exclusion; Rights issues such as Gender, Caste, Tribe, Disability etc. and inclusive policies
• Society Culture, Civilization Heritage, Arts and Literature of India and Telangana
• General Science; India’s Achievements in Science and Technology
• Environmental Issues; Disaster Management- Prevention and Mitigation Strategies and Sustainable Development
• Economic and Social Development of India and Telangana
• Socio-economic, Political and Cultural History of Telangana with special emphasis on Telangana Statehood Movement and formation of Telangana state

• Analytical Abilities: Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation
• Moral Values and Professional Ethics in Education
• Teaching Aptitude

• School Level English Grammar
• Vocabulary
• Words and Sentences