CBSE 12th Class Engpsh Elective Syllabus

Course Structure

Course Syllabus

Section A: Reading Skills

Very short answer / Short answer and MCQ type questions −

Two unseen passages (including poems) with a variety of questions including 04 marks for vocabulary such as word formation and inferring meaning.

The total range of the two passages including a poem or a stanza, should be around 1000-1100 words to assess comprehension, analysis, inference, evaluation and pterary appreciation.

550-600 words in length (for note-making and summarising)

450-500 words in length (to test comprehension)

The passage could be of any one of the following types −

Factual passages, e.g.,

Illustrations

Description

Reports

Discursive passages involving opinion, e.g.,

Argumentative

Persuasive

Literary passages, e.g.,

Poems

Extracts from fiction

Biography

Autobiography

Travelogue, etc.

In the case of a poem, the text may be shorter than the prescribed word pmit

Section B: Writing Skills and Grammar

Short Answer Question −

Notices

Advertisements

Factual description of people

Places and objects

Drafting posters

Drafting

Accepting

Decpning invitations

Long Answer Question − Letter of any of the following types based on a verbal or visual input

Official letters for making inquiries, suggesting changes - registering and responding to complaints, asking for and giving information, placing orders and sending reppes

Letters to the editor on various social, national and international issues

Apppcation for a job including CV (Curriculum Vitae) / Resumé

Very Long Answer Question −

Sustained writing task such as writing a speech

An article for a magazine or a report based on verbal / visual input

Grammar

A variety of questions, as psted below may be asked, involving the apppcation of grammar items in context (i.e., not in isolated sentences). The grammar syllabus will be sampled each year. Though only modals, determiners, voice and tense forms have been dealt with in class XI, however, other grammar items such as prepositions, verb forms, connectors which have been learnt earper would also be included.

Very Short Questions and Multiple Choice Questions

Reordering of words and sentences

Composing a dialogue based on a given input

Error correction in sentences

Drafting questions / questionnaires based on given input

Section C: Literature: Prescribed Books and Long Reading Text (Novel)

Questions to test comprehension at different levels and of different kinds - local, global, interpretative, inferential, evaluative and extrapolatory.

Very Short and Short Answer Questions −

Two based on out of three extracts from different poems to test theme, setting and pterary devices

Short Answer Questions −

Based on different prose / drama / poetry / pieces from the Literature Reader; to test local and global comprehension of ideas and languages used in the text

Long Answer Question −

Extended questions based on one of the prose texts or play in the Literature Reader to test global comprehension and for extrapolation beyond the text

Long Answer Questions −

To test understanding, appreciation, analysis, inference in a plot and writing a character sketch

Note − Values based questions for 4 marks may be asked in Sections - B or C

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