Punjab Board Class 12 English Syllabus 2026-27

General English. Unseen passages for testing reading skills.

Section A — Lessons for intensive study

1. Hassan’s Attendance Problem — Sudha Murthy
2. The March King — Katherine Little Bakeless
3. Thinking Out of the Box: Lateral Thinking
4. On Saying ‘Please’ — A. G. Gardiner
5. The Story of My Life — Helen Keller
6. Two Gentlemen of Verona — A. J. Cronin
7. In Celebration of Being Alive — Dr. Christian Barnard
8. Ghadari Babas in Kalapani Jail — Dr. Harish K. Puri

Section B — Poetry

1. Prayer of the Woods — Anonymous
2. On Friendship — Kahlil Gibran
3. The Echoing Green — William Blake
4. Once upon a Time — Gabriel Okara
5. Father Returning Home — Dilip Chitre
6. The Road Not Taken — Robert Frost
7. On His Blindness — John Milton

Section C — Lessons for extensive study

1. The School for Sympathy — E. V. Lucas
2. A Chameleon — Anton Chekhov
3. Bholi — K. A. Abbas
4. The Gold Frame — R. K. Laxman
5. The Barber’s Trade Union — Mulk Raj Anand
6. The Bull beneath the Earth — K. S. Virk

Grammar

Determiners; non-finites (infinitives, gerunds, participles); transformation of sentences; voice; narration.

Composition

Precis writing; letter writing (official/business/to editors); applications; explaining newspaper headlines; e-mail writing.

Translation

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

Prescribed books

Published by Punjab School Education Board: A Rainbow of English for Class 12; English Grammar and Composition for Classes 11 and 12.