CBSE Class 12 English syllabus 📘 2026

CBSE Class 12 English syllabus 📘 2026

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📘 CBSE Class 12 English Syllabus

CBSE Class 12 English (Core – 301) is based on three prescribed books:

• Flamingo (Prose & Poetry)

• Vistas (Supplementary Reader)

• Writing & Grammar

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📗 Flamingo – Prose

1. The Last Lesson – Alphonse Daudet

2. Lost Spring – Anees Jung

3. Deep Water – William Douglas

4. The Rattrap – Selma Lagerlöf

5. Indigo – Louis Fischer

6. Poets and Pancakes – Asokamitran

7. The Interview – Christopher Silvester

8. Going Places – A. R. Barton

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📜 Flamingo – Poetry

1. My Mother at Sixty-Six – Kamala Das

2. An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum – Stephen Spender

3. Keeping Quiet – Pablo Neruda

4. A Thing of Beauty – John Keats

5. A Roadside Stand – Robert Frost

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📙 Vistas – Supplementary Reader

1. The Third Level – Jack Finney

2. The Tiger King – Kalki

3. Journey to the End of the Earth – Tishani Doshi

4. The Enemy – Pearl S. Buck

5. Should Wizard Hit Mommy? – John Updike

6. On the Face of It – Susan Hill

7. Evans Tries an O-Level – Colin Dexter

8. Memories of Childhood

   • The Cutting of My Long Hair – Zitkala-Sa

   • We Too Are Human Beings – Bama

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✍️ Writing Skills

• Notice writing

• Invitation & reply

• Letter writing (official/business)

• Article writing

• Report writing

• Speech & debate writing

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🧠 Grammar

• Tenses

• Modals

• Subject–verb agreement

• Determiners

• Active & passive voice

• Reported speech

• Editing & omission

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📖 Reading Skills

• Unseen factual passage

• Unseen literary passage

• Case-based comprehension

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