WB Board Class 12 English syllabus (WBBSE)

WB Board Class 12 English syllabus (WBBSE) 

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📘 Class 12 English – WBBSE Syllabus

1. Textbook Lessons

Prose / Short Stories / Essays

1. The Last Lesson – Alphonse Daudet

2. Lost Spring – Anees Jung

3. Deep Water – William Douglas

4. The Interview – Christopher Silvester

5. On the Face of It – Susan Hill

6. Indigo – Louis Fischer

Poetry

1. A Thing of Beauty – John Keats

2. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Extracts) – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

3. Daffodils – William Wordsworth

4. Snake – D. H. Lawrence

5. The Solitary Reaper – William Wordsworth

Drama / Play

• Selected scenes from plays like Othello or Macbeth

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2. Reading Skills

• Comprehension of seen and unseen passages

• Analytical and interpretive questions

• Critical understanding of texts and language

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3. Writing Skills

• Letters (formal and informal)

• Essays (descriptive, narrative, argumentative)

• Reports, notices, advertisements

• Article and story writing

• Summarizing texts and passages

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4. Grammar & Vocabulary

• Tenses and verb forms

• Active and passive voice

• Reported speech

• Modals and auxiliaries

• Phrasal verbs and idioms

• Sentence transformation and error correction

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5. Assessment Pattern

• Reading comprehension (seen & unseen passages)

• Questions from prose, poetry, and drama

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

• Grammar and vocabulary exercises

• Oral/Listening assessment