NEW SYLLABUS
ENGLISH-B
CLASS
XII
Question
from Prose Section – 20 marks
Question
from Verse Section – 20 marks
Questions
from play – 10 marks
Textual
grammar – 10 marks
Reading
Comprehension 10 marks
ESP
[précis writing, business/formal letter] – 10 marks
Project
– 20 marks
TOTAL-
100 marks
Prose
and Poetry – (40 M/30P)
Prose
1.
The Eyes Have It – Ruskin Bond
2.
Wings of fire – APJ Abdul Kalam
3.
Thank You, Ma’am – Langston Hughes
4.
The Three Questions – Leo Tolstoy
Poetry
17.
On Killing a Tree – Gieve Patel
18.
Asleep in the Valley – Arthur Rimbaud
19.
Shall I Compare Thee – William Shakespeare
20.
The Poetry of Earth – J. Keats
Play
(10M/10P)
The
Proposal- Anton Chekhov
Textual
Grammar – (10M/10P)
I.
Synthesis and splitting of sentences
II.
Change of narration
III.
Correction of Errors
Reading
Comprehension (10M/15P)
Unseen
Prose Passage
ESP
(10M/20P)
Précis
writing/ Report writing/Business/Formal letter
Project(2000-2500
words) : (20M/10P)
Topics
for project: (any one)
§
Film / Theatre script
§
Changing the background/ time/ social context of a play and recording how the
characters behave in a
changed
scenario
§
Indianization of the writings of some English writers like Dickens, Hardy,
Jane-Austin, Oscar Wilde
