HBSE Class 11 Syllabus 2027 English Core

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BOARD OF SCHOOL EDUCATION HARYANA
Syllabus and Chapter wise Division of Marks (2026-27)
Class: 11 Subject: English (Core) Code: 501

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3. For Internal Assessment:
The Periodic Assessment will include:
i) For 6 marks- Three SAT exams will be conducted and will have a
weightage of 06 marks towards the final Internal Assessment.
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For 5 marks- A project work will be given to the students and a
weightage of 05 marks will be given towards the final Internal
Assessment.
v) For 5 marks-Students will be awarded 05 marks for attendance as per the
following criteria:
Above 75% to 80% - 01 marks

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Course structure
Class-11 ENGLISH (CORE) Code No. 501
Sr. Section Skill Content Marks Total
No.
Comprehension of Unseen 10
1. A Reading Passage 15
Skills Note Making 5

Notice
Advertisement 5
2. B Writing Poster Making
Skills Paragraph Writing 15
Report Writing 5
Description of events

Letter Writing
Application Writing 5

Determiners

3. C Grammar Parts of Speech
Tenses
10 10
Voice
Modals
Clauses
Hornbill (Prose) 18
4. D Textbooks 40
Hornbill (Poetry) 11
Snapshots 11
Total 80
Internal Assessment 20
Grand Total 100

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HORNBILL (Prose)
1. The Portrait of a Lady Khushwant Singh
2. We’re Not Afraid to Die... if We Can All Be Gordon Cook and Alan East
Together
3. Discovering Tut: The Saga Continues A.R. Williams
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2. The Laburnum Top Ted Hughes
3. The Voice of the Rain Walt Whitman
4. Childhood Markus Natten
5. Father to Son Elizabeth Jennings
SNAPSHOTS
1. The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse William Saroyan
2. The Address Marga Minco
3. Mother’s Day J.B. Priestley
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A.J. Cronin
Vikram Seth
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1. Parts of Speech: Brief introduction about Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs,
Adjectives, Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections.
2. Determiners: Their types and examples
3. Tenses: Practice of filling suitable form of verbs given in bracket
4. Voice (Active & Passive voice)
5. Clause: 1. Principal Clause, Subordinate Clause and Coordinate Clause.
1. Noun Clause, Adverbial Clause and Adjective Clause.
6. Modals: Modal Auxiliaries
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4. Description of Events and Incidents
5. Report

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Month wise Syllabus Teaching Plan (2026-27)
CLASS:11th Subject: English (Core) Code: 501

Month Book /Skills Name of Units/ Activities/ Project Work Teaching Revision
Chapters suggested Periods Periods
April Hornbill Introduction 1. Students must be made 1
and familiar with the two
Snapshots textbooks examination pattern,
marking scheme, word limit,
weight age of each skill etc.
prescribed by BSEH, Bhiwani.
Hornbill The Portrait of a 1. Students may be asked to 5 1
(Prose) Lady interview their grandparents
on their childhood routine,
schooling, favourite pastime,
values in life, expectations
from their children, their
future goals etc.
2. Organize a debate in the class
where students will discuss on
‘Old Age Homes have
become necessary in the
nuclear family set up of the
society today.’
3. Students may be asked to
make notes on the author’s
grandmother (physical traits,
personal traits, three phases of
her relationship with the
author).
4. Delineation of her character.
Grammar Present Tenses 1. Introduction to tenses 4 1
through bilingual method.
2. Find out Present tense
from the text of “The
Portrait of a Lady” and
identify whether they are
“Indefinite, Continuous,
Perfect or Perfect
Continuous.

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3. Practice the given
exercises of “Present
Tense”
4. Frame a few sentences in
present tense from your
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Skills Writing of application writing
especially with left hand
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3. Students should try to find
how application is different
from other letters.
Recapitulation; Students in
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different applications to write
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A Photograph 1. Students may be asked to
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poem such as Synecdoche,
Oxymoron, Alliteration etc.
Ask them to write as many
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each of these poetic devices.
2. Discussion/debate on the
‘Importance of photographs
and how their relevance has
undergone a change in
recent years.’
3. Collect a few old photographs
of your family and friends and
paste them in your project
file.
4. Practice of MCQs, short
&long answer type questions on
HBSE pattern based on text
passages.
Snapshots The Summer of 1. Students may search on 4 1
(Prose) the Beautiful internet the Armenian tribe,
White Horse Garoghlanian tribe and club
the findings under the
headings- origin, culture,
dresses, cuisine, language, etc.
2. Comprehend and write the
story point-wise and search
the answers of the questions
given in the book.
3. Think about the people like
Mourad and uncle Khosrove
in your surroundings and
enlist their traits.
Students may write a notice for
the lost horse of Joan Byro for
Lost and Found column of
school notice board.
Grammar Past & Future 1. Introduction to these tenses 4 1
Tense through bilingual method.
2. Find out Past and Future
Tenses from the text of
“The Summer of Beautiful
White Horse” and identify
whether they are
“Indefinite, Continuous,

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Perfect or Perfect
Continuous.
3. Practice the given
exercises of “Past and
Future Tense”
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a person has to write
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the different authorities on
different issues to write such
as unhygienic conditions of
locality, impure water supply,
irregular power supply etc.
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highlighting theme of Inter-
disciplinary projects.
2. Assigning different topics
from the syllabus to students
for Project Work.
3. Guiding the students for
cutting from newspaper and
magazines related to the
chapters and poems and paste
them in project file.
June Summer Vacation Break (Project work will be assigned to the students)

July Hornbill We're Not 1. Students may be shown a 6 1
(Prose) Afraid to Die… movie of any voyage on
If We can all be Mobile/L.E.D. They will
Together imagine and write their
own experiences.
2. They may be asked to
make a mind map on the
lesson; imagine as in the
text (Picturesque quality).
3. Students may be asked to
draw and label the picture
of a ship.
a. Discuss / Debate on
the title of the
chapter with
examples from our
vicinity.
Snapshots The Address 1. Students may dramatize 4 1
the text with same or
different dialogues. Write
and learn the same.
2. They may be shown World
War movies to get a feel of
the background of the
story.
3. They may be asked to read
‘The Diary of Anne Frank’
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given theme.
4. Discussion / Debate on
a. Nostalgia – Pros and
Cons.
b. Attachment with
belongings leads to
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three teams and organize a
quiz for the students from
Parts of Speech.
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Reading Note Making 1. The students may be given 2 1
Skills (Take passages a skeletal framework that
from the chapter) they fill in as a revision of
Note - Making.
2. They will be asked to
summarize the given
passage within 50 words.
August Hornbill Discovering Tut: 1. Exploring Multimedia 5 1
(Prose) The Saga Resource: Students can be
Continues made to watch
documentaries on
mummies and history of
kings’ valley in Egypt.
National Geographic
Channel (on King Tut).
2. Write the names of kings
of Egypt in a chronological
order putting king Tut’s
period in the middle.
3. Project: The students can
be given a project: -
a. On exploring how
development
b. on exploring the
grandeur of the
ancient
EgyptianCulture,
bringing out its
similarities with the
Indian Culture
4. Students can be given a
guided note making
practice based on the
lesson.
Hornbill The Laburnum 1. Reading the poem aloud 2 1
(Poetry) Top will help students improve
pronunciation and specify
difficult words.
2. They may, from the
internet, read and discover

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similar poems that have
made ample use of sound
and movement words.
Find and collect such
words
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Snapshots Mother’s Day 1. Imagine and relate the 4 1
(Prose) story in an Indian scenario
and write your feelings.
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role play in the class/ on
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Grammar Determiners: 1. Discussion of rules and 2 1
Their types and types of determiners with
examples example.
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3. Collect and paste in file
(project work).
4. Draft advertisement on
different topics given by
the teacher.
Reading Note Making 1. The students may be 2 1
Skills (Take passages given a skeletal
from the chapter) framework that they fill in
as a revision of Note -
Making.
2. They will be asked to
summarize the given
passage within 50 words.
September Hornbill The Ailing 1. All the students should 5 1
(Prose) Planet: The discuss the situation why
Green man has been called “the
Movement’s most dangerous animal”
Role on the planet.
2. Students will be made
aware of global warming
with the help of notices,
Poster Making
Competition, Speech,
Debate etc.
3. There should be a
plantation drive in which
all teachers and students
should participate.
4. Collect the latest data
from Internet similar to
those given in the chapter.
Hornbill The Voice of the 1. Reading the poem aloud 2 1
(Poetry) Rain will help students improve
pronunciation and specify
difficult words.
2. Students may explore
vocabulary based on rain/
rainy season.
3. They may be asked to
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season of their choice.
They may choose a
language of their choice
(multi-lingual approach)
4. Find out poetic devices
from the poem and define
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(Active and advance to observe a school
Passive Voice) programme/ event/ activity
carefully and let them report
in class the next day, whatever
they witnessed using a mix of
Active and Passive
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paragraph explaining how the
delicacy is/ was prepared.
3. Write the same in Active and
Passive form differently.
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the end of the session, a Class
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Skills Writing introduction and also ask their
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school, classroom, library, labs
etc.
3. They must write about their
friends, father, mother, brother,
sister, teacher etc.
4. They must write different
passage with different tenses.
Reading Unseen 1. MCQs based on the passage 2 1
Skills Comprehension from the text for
comprehension
2. Students may write their own
similar experiences and frame
questions.

HALF YEARLY EXAMINATIONS
October Hornbill The Adventure 1. Students may be asked to 5 1
(Prose) watch time travel/ sci-fi
movies (on Edu-set/Smart
Class/YouTube)
2. They must study the
concept of stream of
consciousness.
3. Students may be asked to
enact the lesson.
4. They may be asked to read
other works by the Author
Jayant Narlikar.
5. Make a flow chart of the
story and try to understand
it.
Hornbill Childhood 1. Reading the poem aloud 2 1
(Poetry) will help students improve
pronunciation and specify
difficult words.
2. The students may be asked
to co relate the adult trait
of hypocrisy, as mentioned
in the poem with their life-
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family and friends).
3. Let them speak and write
on the important incidents
of their lives when they felt
they had lost a part of their
childhood.
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3. A Debate may be
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‘Practical Application is
more important than
theoretical knowledge.’
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5. Students may write their
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any.
Grammar Modals 1. Write and define the rule of 6 1
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after using that particular
modal.
Writing Description of 1. Students will perform the role 3 1
Skills events and of anchors and they will
incidents. describe an event or incident
they witnessed.
2. Their own experiences from
their surroundings.
Reading Note Making 1. The same passage may be 2
Skills used for Note Making.
November Hornbill Father to Son 1. Reading the poem aloud 3 1
(Poetry) (Poem) will help students improve
pronunciation and specify
difficult words.
2. A speech may be given on
the topic ‘Generation Gap
will always exist’
3. A Debate may be
organized on ‘We can
only understand our
parents when we reach the
same stage.’
4. As the son/ daughter, the
students may be asked to
compose a poem/ write a
heartfelt letter to their
father/mother.
5. Write on a similar
situation from your
surroundings.
Snapshots The Tale of 1. The students may 3 1
(Poetic Melon City dramatize the text (frame
verse) MCQs).
2. They may be asked to
make a comic strip with
dialogues on the story.
Writing Letter Writing 1. Discuss the complete 3 1
Skills (Business format of Business Letter
Letters) especially with left hand
symmetry.

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2. Divide the students into
different groups and ask
them to find the situations
in which a person has to
write business letters.
3. Students should try to find
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December Hornbill Silk Road 1. Students may be asked 6 1
(Prose) about their own journey
from anywhere to
anywhere, writing their
own experience similar to
that of the author.
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3. Students may be asked to
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Instagram page based on
their recent travels,
mentioning do’s and
don’ts for helping their
followers.
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using group discussion.

Grammar Clause: 1. Worksheets on clauses will be 4
(Revision Principal Clause, given to the students.
of clauses) Subordinate 2. Students will perform the role
Clause and of “Principal Clause,
Coordinate Subordinate Clause and
Clause. Coordinate Clause.
3. They will identify the use of
Noun Clause, Noun Clause, Adverbial
Adverbial Clause Clause and Adjective Clause
and Adjective in their textbooks.
Clause 4. Students may be asked to
write an interesting paragraph
Tenses using connectors and clauses,
without full stops in between.
It would be a fun piece of
writing like:

There once lived a king who
went into a dark forest that was
beside the river which was well
known for…………………

5. Additional Exercises of
Tenses will be given to the
students.
Writing Report Writing 1. Students will be told the use of 4 2
Skills report writing.
Different newspapers and
magazines will be shown to the
students and they will be asked to
see the use of language;
especially ‘speech’.
Reading Practice of 1. Variety of passages to be 3
Skills Comprehension taken from previous years’
sample papers.
January Hornbill Revision of all 1. Class tests will be conducted. 3
Chapters 2. On the basis of results of the
tests, problems of the students
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3. Some problems will be solved
using group discussion.
Hornbill Revision of Last 1. Class tests will be conducted; 3
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for comprehension of stanza.
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3. Some problems will be solved
using group discussion.
Grammar Revision of 1. Problems in dealing with 3
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Modals, and Tenses’ will be analyzed on
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Skills social issues in newspaper,
internet and other media.
2. Write down the benefits of
poster making and what
students can learn through
posters.
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HBSE Class 11 Syllabus 2027 English Core

March Annual Examination

Note:
Subject teachers are advised to direct the students to prepare notebook of
the Terminology/Definitional Words used in the chapters for enhancement
of vocabulary or clarity of the concept.

Prescribed Books:
1. Hornbill-Class XI, BSEH Publication (© NCERT)
2. Snapshots (Supplementary) -Class XI, BSEH Publication (© NCERT)

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HBSE Class 11 Syllabus 2027 English Core

QUESTION PAPER DESIGN (2026-27)
Class: 11 th
Subject: English (Core) Code: 501

Section Competencies Marks and
percentage
Conceptual understanding, decoding,
inferring, analysing, appreciating, 15 Marks
A Reading Skills interpreting, conventions and
vocabulary, using appropriate 19%
format(s) and summarizing
Conceptual understanding,
application of rules, analysis, 15 Marks
B Writing Skills reasoning, using appropriate format,
analysis, creativity, evaluation and 19%
appropriacy of style and tone
Conceptual Clarity, application of 10 Marks
C Grammar rules, analysis, inference and
reasoning 12%
Recalling, reasoning, appreciating
literary convention, analysis, 40 Marks
D Literature inference, creativity with fluency,
Critical Thinking 50 %

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