ENGLISH (Special)
CLASS-XII M.M. 100
Unit-wise weightage :-
Marks
1. Prose
20
2. Poetry
14
3. Drama
10
4. Grammar
12
5. Vocabulary
08
6. Unseen
08
7. Precis
06
8. Essay
15
9. Letter-writing
07
100
Subject: English (Special)
Time 3 Hours
M.M.100
1. PROSE : Textual Material for Detailed Study : Dear to All the Muses ( An Anthology of
contemporary Prose) Published by M.P.Text Book Corporation Bhopal
1. The Horse. 2. Warrior Against Weeds. 3. A Most Forgiving Ape. 4. A Young Turkish
Catastrophe. 5. A Tiny Sanctuary. 6. Mano Majra.
7. A Jamaican Fragment. 8. The Heritage of India. 9. Gold in the North. 10. My Greatest
Olympic Prize. 11. The Green Revolution. 12. The Snob.
13. Most Dear to All the Muses. 14. The Case For the Defence. 15. On My Seventieth
Birthday.
2. POETRY (Detailed Study)---- Textual Material------- "ETERNAL LINES" Published by CBSE New
Delhi. All the poems to be taken up alongwith relevant notes on literary forms of poetry, figures of speech,
Simile, Metaphor, alliteration, hyperbole, allegory, fable, parable, sonnet, metaphor, ode, ballad, lyric.
(Specially prepared notes to be given)
3. DRAMA- (Non-detailed)
Arms and the Man. By George Bernard Shaw (Unabridged) (Published by Orient
Longman).
Textual Material to be studied in details. Characterisation and essential camponents of the
play to be taught, like-climax, etc.
4. GRAMMARAll the exercises given at the end of every lesson of prose book to be taken up in the
class. However special emphasis to be given to(1) Kinds of sentences-Simple, Compound Complex. Transformation of sentences.
(2) Tenses-Indefinite, Continuous Perfect, Perfect Continuous.
(3) Articles and Determiners.
(4) Preposition-Prepositional Phrases.
(5) Modals.
(6) Non-finites (i) Infinitives (ii) Gerunds (iii) Participles
(7) Transformation (without changing the meaning of the given sentences). of (a)
Degrees (b) Negative sentence (c) Interrogative sentence
(8) Punctuation.
(9) Phrasal Verbs
(10) Clauses (i) Nominal (ii) Relative (iii) Coordinate (iv) Adverbial (All Type)
(11) Reported speech
(i) Assertive (ii) Interrogative (iii) Imperative (iv) Exclamatory
(12) Voices - Active to Passive and Vice/ Versa
5. VOCABULARY - Usage of words from and related to the prescribed detailed study prose book.
6. PRECIS - A passage of about 250 words- Practice should be given in class- room
7. UNSEEN - An Unseen passage of about 250 words meant for comprehension
8. ESSAY - Current Topics, Generalised Topics, Extension of given ideas. Example : ' Prevention is
better than cure' (200 words).
9. LETTER - Formal and Informal Letters.