PSEB 11th Class Syllabus 2023 English Elective

CLASS - XI
ENGLISH ELECTIVE

Time: 3 Hrs Theory: 80 Marks
INA: 20 Marks
Total: 100 Marks
SYLLABUS

Book-I English Reader Book V

1. The Young Akbar

2. The Story of Sri Rama's Exile

3. The Discovery of Penicillin

4. The Story of Michael

5. Guru Gobind Singh

6. Sohrab and Rustam-I

7. Sohrab and Rustam-II

8. A Modern Miracle

9. Abou Hassan and his Wife

10. A Spark Neglected Burns the House-I

11. A Spark Neglected Burns the House II

12. The Tempest

Book-II Selections From English Verse

1. The Way of Poetry – William Blake

2. Going Downhill on a Bicycle – H.C. Beeching

3. My Native Land – Walter Scott

4. The Snake – Emily Dickinson

5. Abou Ben Adhem – Leigh Hunt

6. The Patriot – Robert Browning

7. The Brook – Alfred Lord Tennyson

8. Casabianca – Mrs Hemans

9. Robin Hood and Alan-A-Dale (Anonymous)

10. Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog – Oliver Goldsmith

11. We are Seven – William Wordsworth

12. Lady Clare - Alfred Lord Tennyson

13. The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Book-III A Book of Essays and Stories

1. The Real Princess

2. Gulliver in Lilliput

3. Tom Whitewashes a Fence

4. A Street Scene

5. Build Yourself for Leadership

6. Controlling the Mind

7. Three Questions

8. The Cabuliwallah

9. The Emperor's New Clothes

10. Gandhi's Appeal

11. The Judgement Seat of Vikramaditya

12. The Black Cat

13. The Happy Prince

14. The Bet

15. The Last leaf

APPLIED GRAMMAR

1. The Sentence and its Foms

2. The Sentence and its Kinds

3. The Clause and its Kinds

4. The Structure of the Noun Phrase

5. Nouns

6. Pronouns

7. Determiners (The Use of Articles and their Equivalents)

8. Adjectives

9. The Structure of the Verb Phrase

10. The Main Verb: Transitive and Intransitive

11. Linking Verbs

12. The Tense

13. Preposition and Prepositional Phrases

14. Adverbs

15. Conditional Sentences

16. Adjective Clauses

17. Active and Passive Voice

18. Direct and Indirect Speech

19. Vocabulary Expansion

20. Short Responses

21. Various Concepts- How to express them(1)

22. Various Concepts- How to express them(2)

23. The Patterning of Certain Verbs

Composition

1. Translation from English into Vernacular 2. Application

3. Letter 4. Essay

Note: A paragraph in lieu of translation for foreign students.

Books Prescribed & Published by the Punjab School Education Board.

1. English Reader Book-V 3. A Book of Essays and Stories

2. Selections from English Verse 4. A Practice Book of English Grammar

Note: All the lessons in the above books are included in the syllabus. No part has

been deleted.