Term 1 CBSE Class 11 English Core Syllabus 2021-22 can be checked below and downloaded in PDF format. The link to download CBSE Syllabus for Class 11 English Core is given at the end of this article. It is applicable for CBSE Academic Session 2021-22 (Term 1).
CBSE Class 11 English Core Syllabus 2021-22:
Section A: Reading Comprehension – 13 Marks
- – Unseen passage (factual, descriptive or literary/ discursive or persuasive): 8 Marks
- – Case Based Unseen (Factual) Passage: 5 Marks
Section B: Creative Writing Skills and Grammar – 12 Marks
Short Writing Tasks
Notice Writing: 3 Marks
Long Writing Tasks – 5 Marks
- – Business or Official Letters( Making enquiries, registering complaints, asking for or giving information, placing orders and sending replies)
- – Speech
Grammar – 4 Marks
- – Determiners
- – Tenses
- – Re-ordering of Sentences
- {MCQs on Gap filling/ Transformation of Sentences}
Section C: Literature – 15 Marks (9 Marks for Hornbill + 6 Marks for Snapshots)
Literature:
Literary-prose/poetry extracts ( seen- texts ) comprehension and appreciation. (Two Extracts)
Questions Based on Texts to assess
comprehension and appreciation, analysis, inference, extrapolation
Book-Hornbill:
- – The Portrait of a Lady (Prose)
- – A Photograph (Poem)
- – “We’re Not Afraid to Die… if We Can All Be Together” (Prose)
- – Discovering Tut: the Saga Continues
- – The Laburnum Top (Poem)
- – Landscape of the Soul (Prose)
Book-Snapshots:
- The Summer of the Beautiful White
- Horse(Prose)
- The Address (Prose)
- Ranga’s Marriage (Prose)
| Total | 40 Marks |
| ASL | 10 Marks |
| Grand Total | 50 Marks |