Punjab Board Class 10 English Syllabus 2026-27

Reading skills

• Unseen passage of up to 300 words, followed by questions
• Poster-based comprehension, followed by questions

English Main Course Book

1. The Happy Prince
2. Where is Science Taking Us?
3. Secret of Happiness
4. A Gift for Christmas
5. Some Glimpses of Ancient Indian Thought and Practices
6. The Home-Coming
7. The Making of the Earth
8. The Rule of the Road

Poems

1. Character of a Happy Man
2. Death the Leveller
3. A Ballad of Sir Pertab Singh
4. Razia, the Tigress
5. Where the Mind is Without Fear

Supplementary reader

1. Bed Number-29
2. Half A Rupee Worth
3. One Thousand Dollars
4. The Dying Detective
5. How Much Land Does a Man Need
6. Return to Air

Vocabulary

Pairs of words generally confused; idioms; one word for many; common errors; common proverbs.

Grammar

Determiners, prepositions, modals and sentence connectors; non-finites; simple, complex and compound sentences; voice; reported speech; tenses; punctuation.

Writing skills

Notices and note-making; messages; advertisements; paragraphs; letters (personal, business and official).

Translation

English to Punjabi/Hindi, and Punjabi/Hindi to English.

Prescribed books

Published by Punjab School Education Board: English Main Course Book for Class X; English Literature Book (Supplementary Reader) for Class X; A Practice Book of English Grammar and Composition for Class X.

Exam scheme

From the official Class X scheme of studies: English (subject code 02) is 80 marks theory + 20 marks internal = 100.