🇳🇵 NEB Curriculum 2076 | NCF 2076
Compulsory English Grade 11 & 12
Complete syllabus framework — competencies, grade-wise learning outcomes, scope & sequence, language functions, grammar, and assessment structure. Based on official NEB curriculum for grades 11 and 12 (subject codes: Eng.003 / Eng.004).
🎯 Core Competencies (Grade 11 & 12)Both grades
- Use spoken & written English for general and academic purposes in diverse contexts.
- Read a wide variety of texts for information, understanding, pleasure and appreciation.
- Critically analyze, evaluate and interpret ideas in level-appropriate texts.
- Create a variety of writing for different audiences with appropriate content, style and accuracy.
- Listen and respond with accuracy, fluency and critical thinking.
- Appreciate diverse cultures and communicate using verbal/non-verbal strategies.
📌 Learning Outcomes – Listening & Speaking (Grade 11)
👂 Listening
- Identify stress/intonation patterns and speaker’s attitude.
- Retrieve specific information, compare/contrast, identify gist.
- Make predictions and inferences while listening.
- Distinguish facts from opinions; draw conclusions.
- Take notes from lectures, conversations & narratives.
- Participate actively in interactions using appropriate non-verbal cues.
- Understand announcements and follow complex directions.
🗣️ Speaking
- Initiate, maintain and conclude conversations fluently.
- Ask for clarification, present ideas/opinions with confidence.
- Participate in formal/informal discussions and debates.
- Give and take interviews, use telecommunications (phone/Skype).
- Narrate events/processes, describe people/objects.
- Use stress, tone and intonation effectively.
- Make effective presentations, express cultural understanding.
📖 Reading (Grade 11) – Intensive & Literary
- Scan/skim for specific information, main ideas, supporting details.
- Distinguish cause/effect, fact/opinion, compare/contrast.
- Interpret graphic organizers (Venn diagrams, timelines).
- Read and respond to literary texts (short stories, poems, essays, dramas).
- Interpret figurative language, themes, character description.
- Determine writer’s attitude, purpose, intended meaning.
- Analyze structure, cohesive devices, discourse markers.
- Make predictions/inferences, take notes, summarize texts.
- Use dictionary, thesaurus, and online references.
✍️ Writing (Grade 11) – Genres & Process
Text types
- Paragraphs (topic sentence, support, conclusion)
- Personal letters, emails, blogs
- Descriptive, narrative, argumentative, expository essays
- News articles, study reports
- Personal experiences, stories, travelogues
- Character sketch, book/film review
- Transfer information from tables/charts
- Communiqué, press release basics
Strategies & mechanics
- Brainstorming, mind mapping, clustering
- Process approach (plan, draft, revise, edit)
- Use punctuation, spelling, capitalization correctly
- Critical analysis of sample writings
- Personal dictionary development
🧠 Language Functions & Grammar – Grade 11
🗣️ Key functions
- Expressing good wishes, agreement/disagreement
- Describing objects, people, places
- Asking/giving opinions, describing experiences
- Expressing certainty, probability, doubt, obligation
- Requesting, offering, suggesting, advising
- Narrating past events, reporting, encouraging/discouraging
📚 Grammar topics
- Adjectives & adverbs, subject-verb agreement
- Prepositions, modal auxiliaries
- Tenses & aspects, infinitives & gerunds
- Conjunctions, relative clauses
- Voice (active/passive), reported speech
- Word formation (prefixes, suffixes, derivation)
🌐 Thematic Areas & Text Types (Part I & II)
- Themes: Education, health, media, history & culture, ecology, science & technology, globalization, democracy, human rights, family, arts, career, war & peace, critical thinking, etc.
- Text types: interviews, book/film reviews, news reports, essays, literary writings, reports, letters, biographies, travelogues, blogs, brochures, emails.
- Literature (Part II): 7 short stories, 5 poems, 5 essays, 3 one-act plays → total 20 literary texts.
- Intensive reading + extensive reading for pleasure, analysis of literary devices, character, theme, and creative writing tasks.
📊 Assessment (Grade 11) – Internal + External
Internal (25 marks)
- Participation: 3 marks
- Listening test: 6 marks (2 sound files)
- Speaking test: 10 marks (interview + picture description + topic)
- Terminal exams score: 6 marks
External (75 marks)
- Reading: 35 marks
- Writing: 25 marks
- Grammar: 10 marks
- Vocabulary: 5 marks
Listening test: two sound files (max 3 min each) → multiple choice, fill in blanks, matching, short answers.
Speaking test: introduction (3 marks), describing pictures (4 marks), speaking on given topic (3 marks).
Alternative assessments for students with disabilities (visual/hearing) are described in full curriculum.
🎯 Advanced Competencies – Grade 12
- Use English with higher fluency, accuracy and social/cultural appropriateness.
- Critically evaluate multiple perspectives and arguments in complex texts.
- Produce sophisticated writing (CV, formal letters, press releases, project reports).
- Lead formal discussions and debates, manage group interactions effectively.
- Interpret and synthesize information from multiple sources, both literary and non-literary.
🎧 Listening & Speaking – Grade 12 (advanced outcomes)
Listening
- Identify supra-segmental features & phonological processes.
- Interpret speaker’s purpose, attitudes, emotions.
- Make predictions about events/actions using clues.
- Evaluate content/organization of presentations, separate facts from opinions critically.
- Take notes from extended lectures/conversations and restate.
- Collaborate to discuss understanding of spoken texts.
Speaking
- Initiate, maintain, conclude interactions with confidence and cultural awareness.
- Participate in long conversations with multiple speakers.
- Use discourse markers, negotiate meaning, respond with suggestions and arguments.
- Give persuasive interviews, use telecom for professional purposes.
- Make presentations with effective skills (posture, eye contact, discourse markers).
- Express and defend opinions with reasons, examples from diverse sources.
📖 Reading – Grade 12 (critical & analytical)
- Scan/skim for specific information; distinguish different points of view.
- Follow pattern of arguments using textual clues; compare organizational patterns.
- Read and interpret literary texts from wide range of authors/genres; analyze figurative language, diction, and multiple levels of meaning.
- Determine writer’s attitude, purpose, intended meaning; evaluate arguments.
- Synthesize information from different sources; present critical responses.
- Summarize, make inferences, use background knowledge for prediction.
- Interpret complex graphic and para-orthographic texts.
- Use dictionary, thesaurus, academic references efficiently.
✍️ Writing – Grade 12 (professional & academic)
Genres & forms
- Formal letters (editor, job application, business)
- Curriculum Vitae (CV) with proper format
- Essays (descriptive, narrative, argumentative, expository)
- News articles, formal reports (project/mini-research)
- Biographies, travelogue/memoire
- Book/film review (critical)
- Press release, study reports, communiqué
- Transfer information from tables/charts to prose
Process & style
- Process approach: planning, outlining, drafting, revising, editing.
- Strategies: brainstorming, mind mapping, clustering, webbing.
- Using authentic dictionaries, thesaurus, reference material.
- Editing for mechanics (spelling, punctuation, capitalization, abbreviations).
- Critical analysis of sample writings to improve style.
🧠 Language Functions & Grammar – Grade 12
🗣️ Advanced functions
- Expressing feelings/emotions, certainty, indifference
- Making comparisons/contrasts, arguing/defending a point
- Responding to counter arguments, disappointment, clarifying
- Describing processes, predicting, expressing necessity
- Speculating, giving reasons, denying, complaining/criticizing
- Reminding, summarizing, narrating, reporting, announcing
📚 Grammar (consolidated)
- Complex sentence structures, advanced modal auxiliaries.
- Relative clauses, reported speech, conditional structures.
- Voice transformation, subject-verb agreement in complex contexts.
- Use of conjunctions and discourse markers for cohesion.
- Vocabulary study: idioms, phrasal verbs, word derivation, and register awareness.
📚 Literature & Thematic Areas (Grade 12 – Part II)
- Literary genres: 7 short stories, 5 poems, 5 essays, 3 one-act plays → total 20 texts.
- Focus areas: glossary, literary devices, comprehension (short/long), summary writing, character sketch, compare/contrast, critical and creative writing.
- Themes (Part I): Globalization & economy, power & politics, war & peace, democracy & human rights, ecology & development, science & ethics, media & society, diaspora, gender, etc.
- Text types: interviews, reviews, news reports, academic publications, biographies, blogs, brochures, travelogues, and more.
📊 Assessment (Grade 12) – Internal + External
Internal (25 marks)
- Participation: 3 marks
- Listening test: 6 marks (authentic sound files – lectures, interviews, narratives)
- Speaking test: 10 marks (introduction, picture description, longer topic speaking)
- Score from terminal exams: 6 marks
External (75 marks)
- Reading: 35 marks
- Writing: 25 marks
- Grammar: 10 marks
- Vocabulary: 5 marks
Listening constructs: gist, main idea & supporting details, specific information, inference, critical evaluation, note-taking.
Speaking test (Grade 12): same pattern but topics and expectations are more advanced; includes persuasion, argument, and group interview scenarios.
Alternative evaluation for students with disabilities is provided.
⏳ Instructional hours breakdown: Language Development – 73 hours | Literature – 55 hours (total 128 hrs). Emphasis on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), real-world tasks, ICT use, and learner engagement.