HALF YEARLY SYLLABUS
ENGLISH CORE
CODE NO. 301 CLASS – XI
2024-25
Section A–26 Marks
Reading Skills
I. Reading Comprehension through Unseen Passages (10+8=18 Marks)
1. One unseen passage to assess comprehension, interpretation, analysis, inference and vocabulary. The
passage may be factual, descriptive or literary. (10 Marks)
2. One unseen case-based factual passage with verbal/visual inputs. (8 marks)
3. i. Note Making: (up to 200 words) 5 Marks
ii. Summary (up to 50 words): 3 Marks
Section B – 23 Marks
Grammar and Creative Writing Skills
II. Grammar (7 Marks)
4. Questions on Gap filling (Tenses, Clauses)
5. Questions on re-ordering/transformation of sentences
III. Creative Writing Skills (16 Marks)
6. Short writing task – Classified Advertisements (3 Marks)
7. Short writing task –Poster (3 Marks)
8. Long Writing task: Speech (5 Marks)
9. Long Writing Task: Debate based on visual/verbal inputs (5 Marks)
Section C – 31 Marks
10. One Poetry extract out of two, from the book Hornbill (3x1=3 Marks)
11. One Prose extract out of two, from the book Hornbill (3x1=3 Marks)
12. One prose extract out of two, from the book Snapshots (4x1=4 Marks)
13. Two Short answer type questions (one from Prose and one from Poetry, from the book Hornbill), out of
four, to be answered in 40-50 words. (3x2=6 Marks)
14. One Short answer type question, from the book Snapshots, to be answered in 40- 50 words. (3x1=3
Marks)
15. One Long answer type question, from Prose/Poetry of Hornbill, to be answered in 120- 150 words.
(1x6=6 Marks)
16. One Long answer type question, based on the chapters from the book Snapshots, to be answered in 120-
150 words (1x6=6 Marks)
Questions from the below chapters of Hornbill:
1. The Portrait of a Lady (Prose)
2. A Photograph (Poem)
3. “We’re Not Afraid to Die… if We Can Be Together
4. The Laburnum Top (Poem)
Questions from the below chapters of Snapshots:
1. The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse (Prose)
2. The Address (Prose)
HALF YEARLY SYLLABUS
ENGLISH CORE CODE NO. 301
CLASS – XII
2024-25
Section A – 22 Marks
Reading Skills
I. Reading Comprehension through Unseen Passage (12+10 = 22 Marks)
1. One unseen passage (12 Marks)
2. One unseen case-based (10 Marks)
Section B – 18 Marks
Creative Writing Skills
II. Creative Writing Skills
3. Notice (4 Marks)
4. Formal/Informal Invitation and Reply (4 Marks)
5. Letters to the Editor/job application, bio-data. (5 Marks)
6. Article/ Report Writing (5 Marks)
Section C – 40 Marks
7. One Poetry extract out of two. (6x1=6 Marks)
8. One Prose extract out of two. (4x1=4 Marks) (Vistas)
9. One prose extract out of two from the book Flamingo. (6x1=6Marks)
10. Short answer type questions (Prose and Poetry) (5x2=10 Marks)
11. Short answer type questions, from Prose (Vistas) (2x2=4 Marks)
12. One Long answer type question, from Prose/Poetry. (1x5=5 Marks)
13. One Long answer type question, based on the chapters from the book Vistas. (1x5=5 Marks)
Questions from the below chapters Flamingo :
(Prose)
1. The Last Lesson.
2. Lost Spring
3. Deep Water
(Poetry)
1. My Mother at Sixty-Six
2. Keeping Quiet
3. A Thing of Beauty
4. A Roadside Stand
5. Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
Questions from the below chapters Vistas :
1. The Third Level
2. The Tiger King
