WB Board Class 10 English syllabus (WBBSE) 2026

WB Board Class 10 English syllabus (WBBSE) 

📘 Class 10 English – WBBSE Syllabus

1. Textbook Lessons

Prose (Stories / Passages)

1. The Happy Prince – Oscar Wilde

2. A Visit to Cambridge – E. V. Lucas

3. Two Gentlemen of Verona – William Shakespeare

4. The Last Leaf – O. Henry

5. The Open Window – Saki

6. The Necklace – Guy de Maupassant

7. The Adventure of the Speckled Band – Arthur Conan Doyle

Poetry

1. If – Rudyard Kipling

2. The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost

3. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening – Robert Frost

4. Daffodils – William Wordsworth

5. Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley

6. The Ballad of Father Gilligan – William Butler Yeats

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2. Reading Skills

• Seen comprehension passages

• Unseen comprehension passages

• Interpretation, analysis, and answering questions

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3. Writing Skills

• Letters (formal and informal)

• Essays (narrative, descriptive, argumentative)

• Notices, advertisements, and reports

• Paragraph writing

• Article and story writing

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4. Grammar & Vocabulary

• Parts of speech

• Tenses

• Active and passive voice

• Reported speech

• Direct and indirect speech

• Phrasal verbs and idioms

• Sentence transformation

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5. Assessment Pattern

• Reading comprehension (seen & unseen passages)

• Questions from prose & poetry lessons

• Writing skills (letters, essays, reports, articles)

• Grammar exercises

• Oral/Listening assessment