CBSE Class 11 English Core Syllabus for 2023-24

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English Core Class 11 Syllabus 2023-24

In this page, we have covered the detailed syllabus of CBSE Class 11 English Core Syllabus for Session 2022-23. Students must refer to the syllabus to start their preparation to score well by analysing the topics and chapters for this year examination.

2022-23 Reduced Syllabus

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We have also provided the syllabus for the 2021-22 session that was previously restored so that you can compare the deleted and added topics.

2021-22 Reduced Syllabus

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READING COMPREHENSION (Term I and II)

• Unseen passage (factual, descriptive or literary/ discursive or persuasive)
• Case Based Unseen (Factual) Passage

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CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS (Term I)

Short Writing Tasks

• Notice Writing

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Long Writing Tasks

• Business or Official Letters (Making enquiries, registering complaints, asking for or giving information, placing orders and sending replies)
• Speech

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CREATIVE WRITING (Term II)

Short Writing Tasks

• Posters

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Long Writing Tasks (One)

• Official Letters, for example, to school/college authorities (regarding admissions, school issues, requirements / suitability of courses)
• Debate

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GRAMMAR (Term I)

• Determiners
• Tenses
• Reordering Sentences

{MCQs on Gap filling/ Transformation of Sentences}

LITERATURE (Term I)

Literary-prose/poetry extracts (seen-texts) comprehension and appreciation. (Two Extracts)

Questions Based on Texts to assess comprehension and appreciation, analysis, inference, extrapolation

Hornbill

• The Portrait of a Lady (Prose)
• A Photograph (Poem)
• “We’re Not Afraid to Die... if We Can All Be Together” (Prose)
• Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues (Prose)
• The Laburnum Top (Poem)
• Landscape of the Soul (Prose)

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Snapshots

• The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse (Prose)
• The Address (Prose)
• Ranga’s Marriage (Prose) 

LITERATURE (Term II)

Questions Based on Texts to assess comprehension and appreciation, analysis, inference, extrapolation

Hornbill

• The Voice of the Rain (Poem)
• The Ailing Planet: The Green Movement’s Role (Prose)
• The Browning Version (Play)
• Childhood (Poem)
• Silk Road (Prose)

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Snapshots

• Albert Einstein at School (Prose)
• Mother’s Day (Play)
• Birth (Prose)