WESTBENGAL BOARD HIGHER SECONDARY : CLASS 11
ENGLISH – B (ENGB) SEMESTER I
UNIT 1 : PROSE
1. ‘An Astrologer’s Day’ – R. K. Narayan 04 05
2. ‘The Swami and Mother-Worship’ from The Master as I Saw Him by Sister Nivedita
3. ‘Amarnath’ from The Master as I Saw Him by Sister Nivedita
UNIT 2 : VERSE
1. ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ – William Wordsworth
2. ‘The Bangle Sellers’ – Sarojini Naidu
3. ‘The Second Coming’ – W.B. Yeats
UNIT 3 : RAPID READER
1. ‘Macbeth’ from A TextBook of English(B) Rapid Reader & A Book on ESP & Project by WBCHSE
2. ‘Othello’ from A TextBook of English(B) Rapid Reader & A Book on ESP & Project by WBCHSE
3. ‘As You Like It’ from A TextBook of English(B) Rapid Reader & A Book on ESP & Project by WBCHSE
UNIT 4 : TEXTUAL GRAMMAR
Textual Grammar from Unit 1 and Unit 2:
1. Tense,
2. Voice,
3. Indirect Speech,
4. Phrasal verbs,
5. Verbs,
6. Preposition,
7. Clause,
8. Participle,
9. Gerund,
10. Transformation of sentences
UNIT 5 : COMPREHENSION (UNSEEN)
Reading Comprehension (Unseen)
ENGLISH – B (ENGB) SEMESTER II SYLLABUS
UNIT 1 : PROSE
1. ‘The Garden Party’ – Katherine Mansfield
2. ‘Alias Jimmy Valentine’ – O’ Henry
3. ‘Of Studies’ -Francis Bacon
4. ‘Nobel Lecture’ by Mother Teresa
UNIT 2 : VERSE
1 ‘My last Duchess’ – Robert Browning
2 ‘And Still I Rise’ – MayaAngelou
UNIT 3 – RAPID READER
1 ‘The Ghost Brahman’ from Folk-Tales of Bengal by LalBehariDey
2 ‘A Ghostly Wife’ from Folk-Tales of Bengal by LalBehariDey
3 ‘The Man Who
Wished to be Perfect’ from Folk-Tales of Bengal by LalBehariDey
UNIT 4 : NON TEXTUAL GRAMMAR
Non-textual Grammar:
1. Tense,
2. Voice,
3. Phrasal Verbs
4. Preposition,
5. Clause,
6. Participle,
7. Gerund,
8. Transformation of Sentences
UNIT 5 : WRITING SKILL
1. Paragraph Writing
OR
2. Formal Letter Writing and Event Report Writing
WESTBENGAL BOARD HIGHER SECONDARY : CLASS 12
SEMESTER III and IV
PROSE
1. Night Train at Deoli by Ruskin Bond
2. Strong Roots by APJ Abdul Kalam
3. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
4. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
5. Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy
VERSE
1. Our Casuarina Tree by Toru Dutt
2. Ulysses by Alfred Lord tennyson
3. Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes
4. That Time of the Year sonnet 73 by Shakespeare
5. The Green House Effect by Carl Dennis
Drama
Tara by Mahesh Dattani Act 1 and 2
UNIT 4 : NON TEXTUAL GRAMMAR
Non-textual Grammar:
1. Tense,
2. Voice,
3. Phrasal Verbs
4. Preposition,
5. Clause,
6. Participle,
7. Gerund,
8. Transformation of Sentences
UNIT 5 : WRITING SKILL
1. Paragraph Writing
OR
2. Formal Letter Writing and Event Report Writing