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Note:
a) One out of two extracts from poems from the text to test comprehension and
appreciation.
4
b) Three out of four short answer questions from the poems to test local and global
comprehension of text (upto 30-40 words each)
2x3=6

ENGLISH
CLASS-XI
One Paper
Section
A.

3 Hours

1OO Marks

Unit

Marks

I
)

Prose

20

II)

Poetry

10

III) Supplementary Reader

15

B.

IV) Reading Unseen Passages (two)

20

C.

V)

20

D.

VI) Grammar

W riting

Unit-III

Selected pieces :
(i) What is Science
(ii) The Man with the Scar
(iii) A Scene from Abraham Lincoln
(iv) The Psychological W recks
(v) God is Near

PROSE

POETRY

Selected Pieces :
(i) Seven Ages of Man
(ii) Stopping by W oods on a Snowy Evening
(iii) No Men are Foreign
(iv) La Belle Dame Sans Merci
(v) Ozymandias of Egypt
(vi) Death the Leveller

George Orwell
W .Somerset Maugham
John Drinkwater
L. Kamakhya Kumar Singh
James Herriot

Marks 20

Selected Pieces :
(i) Relative Duties of Young men
- Henry W ard Beecher
(ii) Exploring Space
- Navin Sullivan
(iii) The Image
- R.K. Narayan
(iv) No Time For Fear
- Phillip Yancey
(v) Paul Julius Reuter
- Harry Menicol
(vi) Life Skills
- K. Kalidas Singh
Note :
a) Six short answer questions on the lesson from the prescribed text (upto
30-40 words each).
2x6=12
b) One out of two long answer type questions based on text to test global
comprehension of about 100-125 words.
8
Unit-II

Marks15

Note:
a) One out of two long answer type questions based on Supplementary Reader to
test comprehension of theme, character and incidents of about 100-110words.
7
b) Four short answer questions from the supplementary Reader.
2x4=8

15
SECTION-A

Unit-I

SUPPLEMENTARY READER

Marks 10
-

W . Shakespeare
Robert Frost
James Kirkup
John Keats
P.B. Shelley
James Shirley

SECTION-B
Unit-IV

READING UNSEEN PASSAGES (TWO)

Marks 20

1.

One Unseen Passage of 400-450 words

(a) Short answer type questions to test local, global and inferential comprehension.
25=l0
(b) Vocabulary
2

2.

Note Making of a Passage of 250-300 words

(a) Note making in an appropriate format
(b) Vocabulary

5
3

Note : The passages could be any of the following types:

(a) Factual passages e.g. instructions, descriptions, reports.
(b) Discursive passages involving opinion, e.g., argumentative, persuasive.
SECTION-C
Unit-V

WRITING

Marks 20

a)

Factual description of any events, or incident, or a process, etc. in about 80-100

words (one out of two)
5

b)

Letter writing (i) business or official letters (for making enquiries, registering
complaints, asking for and giving information, placing orders and sending replies);

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DESIGN
QUESTION PAPER/UNIT TEST

(ii) letters to the editors (giving suggestions, opinions on an issue of public interest)
or (iii) application for a job (one out of two)
7
c)

GRAMMAR

Marks 15

a)

Determiners, Tenses, Clauses, Modals and Error Correction

b)

Editing Task

c)

Re-ordering of sentences.

Different grammatical structures in meaningful contexts will be tested. Item types

will include gap filling, sentence-reordering, dialogue-completion and sentence
transformation.

PRESCRIBED TEXTBOOKS:
1.

An Anthology of English Prose and Poetry for class XI

Published by: Frank Bros. & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., New Delhi for the Council
of Higher Secondary Education, Manipur.

2.

Supplementary Reader (for Classes XI and XII)

Published by: Council of Higher Secondary Education, Manipur.

REFERENCE BOOKS :
1.

W riting with a Purpose

By: Champa Tickoo and Jaya Sasikumar
Published by: Oxford University Press.

2.

Oxford English Grammar for Class XI

Published by: Oxford University Press

3.

Communicative English for Class XI

By: Renu Anand and Gayatri Khanna
Published by: Oxford University Press

4.

A Remedial English Grammar for Foreign Students by FT. W ood.

5.

A Practical English Grammar by A J. Thomson and A. V. Martinet.

6.

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary of Current English by A.S. Hornby

:
:
:
:

ENGLISH
XI
100
3 Hours

I.

SECTION-D

Note :

Subject
Class
Full Marks
Time

Compositions based on a visual and/or verbal input of descriptive or augmentative

nature such as an essay or an article for publication in a newspaper or a school
magazine in about 125-150 words (one out of two)
8

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WEIGHTAGE TO OBJECTIVES :
Objectives
Marks
Percentage
Knowledge (K)
20
20
Understanding/Comprehension (U/C)
30
30
Expression (Exp.)
50
50
TOTAL:
100
100
II.
WEIGHTAGE TO FORMS OF QUESTIONS:
Form of Questions
No. of Questions
Time
Marks Percentage
(in minutes)
Essay/Long Ans : (E/LA)
7
100
44
44
Short Ans. (SA)-I
Short Ans.(SA)-II
18
54
36
36
Very Short Answer (VSA)
20
26
20
20
TOTAL:
45
180
100
100
Note : VSA and O/MC questions are to be set from Extracts
III.
WEIGHTAGE TO CONTENT:
Content
Marks
Percentage
A.
Text:
) Prose
i
20
20
ii) Poetry
10
10
iii) Suplementary Reader
15
15
B.
Reading:
) Unseen Passage
i
12
12
ii) Unseen Passage
8
8
C.
W riting:
) Factual Description
i
5
5
ii) Letter W riting
7
7
iii) Composition
Essay/arguments/speech/articles
8
8
on given points)
D.
Grammar
15
15
Total
100
100
IV.
a) SCHEME OF SECTIONS : A,B,C,D
b) SCHEME OF OPTIONS:
LA and SA-II
c) DIFFICULTY LEVEL
Difficult - 15%
Average - 50%
Easy - 35%
Abbreviation : K(Knowledge), U(Understanding), C(Comprehension), Exp.(Expression), E(Essay Type),
SA(Short Answer Type), VSA(Very Short Answer Type), O(Objective Type)

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DETAILS
Subject : ENGLISH
Class : XI

ENGLISH
CLASS-XII

Unit
I.

II.

Prose

Poetry

No. of
Questions

Forms of Questions

1
6

Critical Question (L.A.-one out

of two) S.A.-II

Extract for comprehension :

(one out of two) 4 VSA questions
S.A.-II (three out of four)

Marks
Allotted
8x1= 08
2x6 = 12
Total = 20
1x4 = 04
2x3 = 06
Total =10

One Paper
Section

3 Hours
Unit
I
)
II)
III)
IV)
V)

A.
B.
C.

Prose
Poetry
Supplementary Reader
Reading Unseen Passages (two)
Advanced W riting Skills
SECTION-A

III. Supplementary Reader

1
4
IV.

Reading :
(a) Comprehension
(b) Note-making

V.

Writing:
(a) Factual description
(b) Letter writing
(c) Composition (Essay/
arguments/speech/
articles on given points)

VI. Grammar:
(a) Determiners, etc.
(b) Editing
(c) Reordering of
Sentences

Critical Question (L.A.-one out of two) 7x1 = 07

S.A.-II
2x4 = 08
Total =15

5
2
1
3

S.A.-II
VSA (Vocabulary)
L.A.
VSA(Vocabulary)

2x5 = 10
1x2 = 02
5x1 = 05
1x3 = 03
Total = 20

1
1

L.A.-one out of two

L.A.-one out of two

5x1 = 05
7x1 = 07

L.A. -one out of two

8x1 = 08
Total = 20

Unit-I

PROSE

Selected Pieces
(i) On the Conduct of Life
(ii) Sinking of the Titanic
(iii) The Kite Maker
(iv) The Dear Departed
(v) The Fourth Dimension
(iv) The Scourge of HIV
Note: a)

7
1

VSA
L.A.

1x7 = 07
4x1 = 04

4
44

VSA

1x4 = 04
Total = 15

1OO Marks
Marks
20
10
15
20
35

(b)

Marks 20
-

W illiam Hazlitt
M. Geelan
Ruskin Bond
Stanley Houghton
H.G. W ells
L. Kamakhya Kumar Singh

Six short answer questions on the lesson from the prescribed text (upto 30-40 words)
each.
2x6=12
One out of the two long answer type questions based on the text to test global
comprehension of about 100-125 words.
8

Unit-II

POETRY

Selected Pieces :
(i) God Made the Country
(ii) To the Skylark
(iii) Youth and Age
(iv) O Captain ! My Captain !
(v) The Soldier
(vi) The Snake

Marks 10
-

W illiam Cowper
W . W ordsworth
S.T.Coleridge
W alt Whitman
Rupert Brooke

- D.H.Lawrence

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b)

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O ne out of two extracts from poems from the text to test comprehension and
appreciation.
4
Three out of four short answer questions from the poems to test local and global
comprehension of text (upto 30-40 words each).
2x3=6

2.

A report or a factual description based on verbal input provided (one out of two) (100125 words)
9

3.

Letter W riting:

Unit-III

SUPPLEMENTARY

Selected Pieces :
(i) Love Across the Salt Desert
(ii) The Gift of the Magi
(iii) Terror
(iv) Coin Diver
(v) Fighting HIV/AIDS
Note: a)

b)

Business or official letters (for making enquiries, registering complaints, asking for
and giving information, placing orders and sending replies).

b)

Letters to the editor (giving suggestions on an issue)

c)

Application for a job.

Marks 15
-

Keki, N. Daruwalla
O. Henry
Jim Corbett
Cyprian Ekwensi
K. Kalidas Singh

4)

One out of two long answer type questions based on Supplementary Reader to
test comprehension of themes, characters and incidents of about 100-110 words.
7
Four short answer questions from the Supplementary Reader.
2x4=8
SECTION-B

Unit-IV

a)

READING UNSEEN PASSAGES (TWO)

One out of three compositions based on visual and / or verbal input of descriptive or
argumentative in nature such as an essay or an article or a speech in about 230-250
words.
12

PRESCRIBED TEXTBOOKS:
1.

An Anthology of English Prose and Poetry for class XII

Published by: Frank Bros. & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., New Delhi for the Council of Higher
Secondary Education, Manipur.

2.

Supplementary Reader (for Classes XI and XII)

Published by: Council of Higher Secondary Education, Manipur.

Marks 20

Selected Pieces :

REFERENCE BOOKS :

1.

1.

W riting with a Purpose

By: Champa Tickoo and Jaya Sasikumar
Published by: Oxford University Press

2.

Oxford English Grammar for Class XII

Published by: Oxford University Press

3.

Communicative English for Class XII

By: Renu Anand and Gayatri Khanna
Published by: Oxford University Press

4.

A Remedial English Grammar for Foreign Students by F.T. W ood.

5.

A Practical English Grammar by A.J. Thomson and A. V. Martinet.

6.

Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary of Current English by A.S. Hornby

2.

One Unseen Passage of 400-450 words

a) Short answer type of questions to test local, global and inferential
comprehension.
b) Vocabulary

9
3

Note Making of a passage of 250-300 words

a) Note making in an appropriate format
(b) Abstraction

4
4

Note: The passages will include two of the following types:

a) Factual passages e.g. instructions, descriptions, reports
b) Discursive passage involving opinion e.g., argumentative, persuasive or interpretative
text.
c) Literary passage e.g. extract from fictions, dramas, essay or biography.
SECTION-C
Unit-V
1.

ADVANCED WRITING SKILLS

Marks 35

One out of two short compositions of not more than 50 words each e.g. advertisement
and notices, designing or drafting posters, writing formal and informal invitations and
replies.
5

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DESIGN
QUESTION PAPER/UNIT TEST
Subject : ENGLISH
Class : XII
Full Marks : 100
Time : 3 Hours
I.
WEIGHTAGE TO OBJECTIVES :
Objectives
Marks
Percentage
Knowledge (K)
20
20
Understanding/Comprehension (U/C)
30
30
Expression (Exp.)
50
50
TOTAL:
100
100
II.
WEIGHTAGE TO FORMS OF QUESTIONS:
Form of Questions
No. of Questions
Time
Marks Percentage
(in minutes)
Essay/Long Ans : (E/LA)
8
115
58
58
Short Ans. (SA)-I
1
5
3
3
Short Ans.(SA)-II
16
50
32
32
Very Short Answer (VSA)
7
10
7
7
TOTAL:
32
180
100
100
Note : VSA and O/MC questions are to be set from Extracts
III.
WEIGHTAGE TO CONTENT:
Content
Marks
Percentage
A.
Text:
) Prose
i
20
20
ii) Poetry
10
10
iii) Supplementary Reader
15
15
B.
Reading:
) Unseen Passage
i
12
12
ii) Unseen Passage
8
8
C.
W riting:
) Notice W riting
i
5
5
ii) Factual Description
9
9
iii) Letter W riting
9
9
iv) Composition
Essay/arguments/speech/articles
12
12
on given points)
Total
100
100
IV.
a) SCHEME OF SECTIONS : A,B,C
b) SCHEME OF OPTIONS:
LA and SA-I
c) DIFFICULTY LEVEL
Difficult - 15%
Average - 50%
Easy - 35%
Abbreviation : K(Knowledge), U(Understanding), C(Comprehension), Exp.(Expression), E(Essay Type),
SA(Short Answer Type), VSA(Very Short Answer Type), O(Objective Type)

DETAILS
Subject : ENGLISH
Class : XII
Unit

No. of
Questions

Forms of Questions

Marks
Allotted

I.

Prose

1
6

Critical Question (L.A.-one out

of two) S.A.-II

II.

Poetry

4
3

Extract for comprehension :

(one out of two) 4 V SA questions
S.A.-II (three out of four)

1
4

Critical Question (L.A.-one out

of two) S.A.-II

7x1 = 07
2x4 = 08
Total =15

3
1
3
1
1

S.A.-II
S.A.-I
VSA (Vocabulary)
L.A. (Note making)
L.A. (Abstraction)

2x3 = 06
3x1 = 03
1x3 = 03
4x1 = 04
4x1 = 04
Total = 20

L.A.-(one out of two)

5x1 = 05

L.A.-(one out of two)

9x1 = 09

1
1

L.A.-(one out of two)

L.A.-(one out of two)

9x1 = 09
12x1 = 12

8x1= 08
2x6 = 12
Total = 20
1x4 = 04
2x3 = 06
Total =10

III. Supplementary Reader

IV.

Reading :
(c) Comprehension

(d) Note-making

V.

Advance Writing Skill :

(a) Advertisement
Notice writing etc.
(b) Report writing/Factual
Description, etc.
(c) Letter Writing
(d) Composition (Essay/
arguments/speech/
articles on given points)

32

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Our arch of empire, steadfast but for you.

A mutilated structure soon to fall.
(i)

COUNCIL OF HIGHER SECONDARY EDUCATION,

MANIPUR
( MODEL QUESTION PAPER )
Class : XII
Time : 3 Hours * 15 Minutes.
ENGLISH
Maximum Marks : 100
( * Fifteen minutes are given as extra time for reading questions )

How does Abel Merry weather teach his two daughters a lesson at the end ?
OR

4.

How does the Time Traveller try to convince his friends that time is the fourth
dimension?
2.

(iii) How would our arch of empire have been ?

(iv) What is it that enemies could never have done ?

(i)

What is the breathing house referred to here ?

(ii)

What does the poet mean by not built with hands ?

(iii) Why does the poet say This body that does me grievous wrong ?

(iv) What does it in the fourth line refer to ?

Answer any three of the following questions in about 20-25 words each :
(a)

Answer the following questions in about 20-25 words each :

It is some dream that on the deck.

Youve fallen cold and dead.
Why does the poet say It is some dream ?

2
2

(a)

What does an inattention to our own persons imply according to Hazlitt ?

(b)

What did the poet feel after having

(b)

Oh, I couldnt do it. I really couldnt do it. What was it that Elizabeth Jordan
could not do ?
2

(c)

What is Love-prompted strain ?

(d)

In hearts at peace , under an English heaven

Why does the poet say English heaven ?

(c)

What seemed most pathetic and horrible to the man in the life boats as the Titanic
was sinking ?
2

(d)

What did Mahmood give to the Nawab when he lost the dragon kite ?

(e)

What was the Medical Mans argument when the Time Traveller suggested that
time is the fourth dimension ?
2

(f)

Why was there a tone of guilt in Rajens voice when he came back from
Kolkata ?
(POETRY)

3.

(ii) What has the folly made of our arch of empire?

This breathing house not built with hands.

This body that does me grievous wrong.
Oer aery cliffs and glittering sands.
How lightly then it flashd along:

SECTION A
(PROSE)
Answer the following question in about 100 words.

OR

All questions are compulsory.

Answer in your own words as far as practicable.

1.

What is this folly of the townpeople mentioned in the lines ?

Read the extract and answer the questions that follow :

Folly such as yours.
Gracd with a Sword, and worthier of a fan.
Has made. which enemies could neer have done.

thrown the log at the snake ?

(SUPPLEMENTARY)

2
5.

Answer

the following question in about 80-90 words :

How are Jim and Della described as the Magi ?

OR

How did Fatimahs coming to the village of Khavda prove auspicious ?

6.

Answer the following questions in 20-25 words each :

(a)

Describe the life of the Garhwalis during the daytime ?

(b)

What is the window period ?

(c)

What has Nancy told Diamond Joe to do with Charlies canary ?

(d)

What does the WBC in our body do ?

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SECTION - B

(c)

How did Marias system of education inspire even the educationists.

(READING)

(d)

How did Marias children prove that they were not hopeless cases ?

(e)

Find words in the passage which mean the same as the following words/
phrase
(i) that makes somebody enthusiastic of something
(ii) comprehend/understand fully
(iii) desire

1
1
1

(A) Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow :
One of the worlds great educators, who looked to a child as an individual and
a very special human being, was Maria Montessori. She gave the very young children
the stimulating kindergarten, where children grew in an atmosphere of freedom and confidence.
Maria Montessori was born in Chiaravalle near Ancona, Italy, in 1870. As a little
girl, she was a dull student, unable to grasp and retain what her teacher taught her.
At the age of 10, she suddenly changed. Besides her heightened interest in religion,
she felt she had a long way to go.
Maria began topping her class, and her parents felt that she should become a teacher.
But she was determined to become an engineer.At the age of 14, she attended a technical
school for boys. After a year she took up biology and decided to study medicine.
In spite of a strong opposition from her father, she went ahead with medicine.
Maria became the first Italian woman to recieve a medical degree after she graduated
from the University of Rome in 1896. After getting her degree, she joined the universitys
psychiatric clinic. As a part of her duty, she had to visit the citys mental asylum, where
disabled children were housed with the insane. She watched the children shriek, stretching
thier hands out, with an urge to reach out or to touch something. Maria felt they needed
a normal and friendlier enviroment and a contact with the world. She worked out ways
by which she could help the disabled children. Dr. Bacelli opened an experimental state
school for disabled children with Dr. Maria Montessori as its head. Maria spent long
hours, almost 12 hours of the day with children, observing them and finding out what
could really help them. After two years of hard work, her students took the normal
state school examination. And, her children proved that they were not hopeless cases.
In fact, many did almost as well as other normal children.
Later, Maria was appointed professor of anthropology at the University.After seven
years, she took up another important mission of her life. She started a kindergarten for
the poor, normal children. She first taught them to become tidy, learn self-discipline
and then taught them to read and write. In her colourful, stimulating kindergarten, she
provided them with innovative learning objects, like cutout letters of sandpaper. Coloured
blocks and musical bells with diferent notes. Many more such innovations made her
system of education stimulating and even inspired the educationists.
(a)

How did Maria Montessori look up to a child ?

(b)

What did Maria feel after she watched the disabled children in the mental
asylum ?

B.

Read the following passage and do as directed :

It is rather the self-importance of man that he thinks he owns this world. Theories have
developed since the very beginning of cultural and religious development on these lines.
There is an Adam and Eve. There is an Adam and Hava. There is a Manu having brought
life on this planet after pralaya. All religious preceptors have preached that the world
is meant for man. They talk of communion between Man and God. But science has
exploded such myths. It was not really so that man owned the world in the beginning.
Man developed physically to the form as we find him now, over a period of time, at
a very late stage. The planet started with micro life. There is a period of millions of
years even between the existance of the micro life and the huge dinosaur who owned
the world and ruled over it.
But nature has been rather cruel to this animal world for whom actually. Everything
in the world was meant. Nature bestowed man with a devoloped brain that it did not
develop in any other creature. This partiality of nature made him Homo sapiens. It was
only man who could think and plan about his existance and welfare, polluting in the
process, the land, the space and the seas that nature had made for all. His own creation
may one day go against him. But now he owns the world and is the master of all that
he surveys. He feels that all the creatures on the earth and even beyond the earth are
meant for him.
The ego of ownership has made man the most cruel animal in the world. He builds
palatial buildings and big cities on the abodes of small creatures like ants and other
burrow dwellers. They are all meant to die for his facilities.
Nature made vegetation that is meant for all living beings. But man felt that all the
animals are meant for him. He killed elephant for its tusks, deer for the horns, a large
number of animals for their hide for shoes, decoration and dresses. He kills musk deer
to have the musk from its stomach. He kills large number of animals for his food. His
number is increasing in such a way that he will have no fear, ever of animals. Owning
the world again.
(288 words)

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11.

There is a lot of violence and bloodshed around. Prepare a speech in not more than
150-200 words to be delivered in the morning Assembly of your school on how educated
youth can play major role in establishing peace in society.
12

(a)

M ake notes of the main points in the pasage.

(b)

Develop the main points into a summary.

SECTION-C

OR

(ADVANCED WRITING SKILLS)

8.

You are Bharat Singh, the Secretary of the Science Club of your school. W rite a notice
for the School Notice Board, informing the students about the Science Exhibition to

Gautam read the following news report about the tendency in children to stay away from
any sort of physical activity. He decides to make use of the information to write an
article for his school magazine. W rite the article for him in not more than 150-200 words
using your own ideas on Health and Medicine.
12

be held and requesting them to participate in it whole-heartedly.Also inform them that

outsiders are also welcome to this exhibition. W rite out the notice in not more than
50 words

5
OR

News report :
The teachers and parents have expressed their disappointment about the children of today
being nothing but couch potatoes. Very seldom do you find children outside their houses,
playing their one time favourite outdoor games like Hide and Seek, Cricket etc.

Your elder sisters marriage has been fixed. Reproduce the probable form of the invitation
to be sent to friends and relatives requesting them to attend the ceremony. Use not more
than 50 words.
9.

You are Loya Khuman, a newspaper reporter, and you witnessed an incident of atrocity
towards child labourers by an employer.W rite a press report on this incident for publication
in your newspaper.

9
OR

Give the description of a Blood Donation Camp that you recently attended in your City.
9
10.

Riya came across an advertisment in the newspaper The Peoples voice, that read How
to look young. After reading it she feels strongly about the use of synthetic creams
and dyes to make people look young, and writes a letter about it to the Editor of the
newspaper. She emphasises on How to keep fit and be young. Reproduce the probable
form of her letter.
9
OR
You are Sumitra. W rite a letter to the Managing Director, Markande Beverages, Koirengei,
Imphal,applying for the post of Analytical Chemist in the factory. Mention your educational
qualification and experiences.