OFFICIAL SYLLABUS - 2022
GENERAL ENGLISH
UNSEEN PASSAGES FOR TESTING READING SKILLS
TEXT BOOK
Section A (Lessons for Intensive study)
1. Hassan's Attendance Problem - Sudha Murthy
2. The March King - Katherine Little Bakeless
3. Thinking Out of the Box: Lateral Thinking - (Adapted from the article from Internet)
4. On Saying 'Please' - A. G. Gardiner
5. The Story of My Life - Helen Keller
6. Two Gentlemen of Verona - A. J. Cronin
7. In Celebration of Being Alive - Dr. Christian Barnard
8. Gadari Babas in Kalapani Jail - Dr. Harish Puri
Section B (Poetry)
1. Prayer of the Woods - Anonymous
2. On Friendship - Khalil Gibran
3. 3. The Echoing Green - William Blake
4. Once upon a Time - Gabriel Okara
5. Father Returning home - Dilip Chitre
6. The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
7. On His Blindness - John Milton
Section C (Lessons for Extensive study)
1. The School for Sympathy - E. V. Lucas
2. A Chameleon - Anton Chekhov
3. Bholi - K. A. Abbas
4. The Gold Frame - R. K. Luxman
5. The Barber's Trade Union - Mulk Raj Anand
6. The Bull beneath the Earth - K. S. Virk
GRAMMAR, COMPOSITION & TRANSLATION
Grammar
1. Determiners
2. Use of Non-finites (Infinitives, Gerunds, Participles)
3. Transformation of Sentences
4. Voice
5. Narration
Composition
1. Precis writing
2. Letter writing (Official/Business/To Editors)
3. Applications
4. Explaining Newspaper Headlines
5. E-Mail writing
Translation from English to Hindi/Punjabi and Translation from Hindi/ Punjabi to English.
(From Chapter 18 The Art of Translation given in the book English Grammar And Composition for XI and XII)
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ENGLISH ELECTIVE
PART - A
DEAR TO ALL THE MUSES
LESSON
1. Warrior against Weeds
2. A Most Forgiving Ape
3. A Young Turkish Catastrophe
4. A Tiny Sanctuary
5. Mano Majra
6. Jamaican Fragment
7. The Heritage of India
8. Gold in the North
9. My Greatest Olympic Prize
10. The Green Revolution
11. The Snob
12. Most Dear to All the Muses
13. The Case For the Defence
LITERARY PETALS:
LESSON:
1. Hind ki Chadar Sri Guru Teg Bahadur
2. Border Guards (Poem)
3. My Heart Leaps when I Behold (Poem)
4. The Gambling Match
5. The Quality of Mercy (Poem)
6. The Fancy Dress Show (Poem)
7. The Eternal Why
8. The Song of India (Poem)
9. After Twenty Years
10. The Tree Fell down (Poem)
11. The World Today is Wild with the Delirium of Hatred (Poem)
12. Attacked by Pit Bulls
13. Slave ? No Master (Poem)
14. The Unrest of Desire (Poem)
15. The Boy Who Broke the Bank
16. Is This The End? (Poem)
17. The Conjuror's Revenge
18. Guru (Poem)
19. A River Tern on the Ganga (Poem)
SELECT ONE-ACT PLAYS
1. The Bishop’s Candlesticks
2. The Miracle-Merchant
3. The King’s Warrant
4. The Monkey’s Paw
Novel: Pride & Prejudice
PART - B
COMPOSITION, VOCABULARY, APPLIED GRAMMAR
Paragraph Writing/ Extended Compostion Translation : 1 Paragraph from Hindi/Punjabi to English.
APPLIED GRAMMAR: Do as directed type questions covering the following items
(i) Change of Narration
(ii) Change of Voice
(iii) Joining two simple sentences into one using linkers etc
(iv) Use of Modals
(v) Transformation of Sentences (Use of gerunds, Infinities, Participles adverbials)
The books Prescribed & Published by the Punjab School Education Board.
1. Dear to All the Muses
2. The Literary Petals
3. Select One Act Plays
4. Pride and Prejudice
*Project/ Assignment will be based on biography of any two author and two poets in reference to the syllabus.
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Documents
NCERT English Elective 2020-21
NCERT English Core 2020-21
NCERT English Elective 2021-22
NCERT English Core 2021-22
Official Syllabus 2022 General English
Official Syllabus 2022 English Elective