WB Board Class 11 English syllabus (WBBSE)

WB Board Class 11 English syllabus (WBBSE) 

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📘 Class 11 English – WBBSE Syllabus

1. Textbook Lessons

Prose / Short Stories

1. The Portrait of a Lady – Khushwant Singh

2. We’re Not Afraid to Die…If We Can All Be Together – Gordon Cook & Alan East

3. The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse – William Saroyan

4. The Address – Marga Minco

5. Ranga’s Marriage – Masti Venkatesha Iyengar

Poetry

1. The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost

2. The Lake Isle of Innisfree – W. B. Yeats

3. The Solitary Reaper – William Wordsworth

4. The Voice of the Rain – Walt Whitman

Drama (Optional/Prescribed)

• Selected scenes from plays such as Othello or The Merchant of Venice

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2. Reading Skills

• Comprehension of seen and unseen passages

• Interpretation and critical analysis of texts

• Answering questions based on main ideas, themes, and language

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3. Writing Skills

• Letters (formal and informal)

• Paragraph and essay writing

• Reports, notices, advertisements

• Article and story writing

• Summarizing texts

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4. Grammar & Vocabulary

• Tenses and verb forms

• Active and passive voice

• Reported speech

• Modals

• Phrasal verbs and idioms

• Sentence transformation and error correction

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5. Assessment Pattern

• Reading comprehension (seen & unseen)

• Prose, poetry, and drama questions

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

• Grammar and vocabulary exercises

• Oral/Listening assessment