PSEB 11th Class Syllabus 2025 English Elective

Punjab Board

SYLLABUS
2024-2025

2024-25
ENGLISH ELECTIVE
Class- XI
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

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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 Forms

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

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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

2. Selections from English Verse

3. A Book of Essays and Stories

4. A Practice Book of English Grammar

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Study Materials
Notes

Model Papers Class 6 Notes

Sample Papers Class 7 Notes
Half Yearly Sample Papers Class 8 Notes

Class 9 Notes
Important Resources
Class 10 Notes
Periodic Table
Class 11 Notes
Writing Skills / Formats

Maps of India / World Class 12 Notes

Books and Solutions

NCERT Books
NCERT Book Solutions
HC Verma Chapter Wise Solutions
RD Sharma Solutions
CGBSE Solutions