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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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Parts |
Units |
Marks |
|
|
Term I |
Term II |
A |
Reading |
13 |
13 |
B |
Writing and Grammar |
12 |
12 |
C |
Literature |
15 |
15 |
|
ASSESSMENT ON SPEAKING AND LISTENING (General Introduction + Mini Presentation + Pair Interaction) |
10 |
10 |
|
TOTAL |
100 |
READING COMPREHENSION (Term I and II)
- Unseen passage (factual, descriptive or literary/ discursive or persuasive)
- Case Based Unseen (Factual) Passage
CREATIVE WRITING SKILLS (Term I)
Short Writing Tasks
Long Writing Tasks
- Business or Official Letters (Making enquiries, registering complaints, asking for or giving information, placing orders and sending replies)
- Speech
CREATIVE WRITING (Term II)
Short Writing Tasks
Long Writing Tasks (One)
- Official Letters, for example, to school/college authorities (regarding admissions, school issues, requirements / suitability of courses)
- Debate
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)
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)
Snapshots
- Albert Einstein at School (Prose)
- Mother’s Day (Play)
- Birth (Prose)