CHSE Odisha Class 11 Alternative English Approaches to English Book 1, 2 Solutions

CHSE Odisha Class 11 Approaches to English Book 1, 2 Solutions (+2 1st Year)

CHSE Odisha Class 11 Approaches to English Book 1 Solutions

Prose

Unit 1 THE ADVENTURE OF LEARNING

• Text A: Memories of Crossgates School
• Text B: Make me a child again, Just for tonight
• Text C: Confessions of a Misspent Youth
• Text D: A Time to Think

Unit 2 MEN AND WOMEN

• Text A: Portrait of a Teacher
• Text B: My Mother
• Text C: Lucy Rowan’s Mother
• Text D: The Jam Sahib of Newanagar

Unit 3 MODERN LIVING

• Text A: The Telephone
• Text B: Saturday Morning Violence
• Text C: New Superstitions for Old
• Text D: Burnout

Unit 4 FOOD FOR THOUGHT

• Text A: That Lean, Hungry Look
• Text B: What is Art?
• Text C: Psychobabble
• Text D: The Case against Man

CHSE Odisha Class 11 Approaches to English Book 2 Solutions

Poetry

• Poem 1 Ecology
• Poem 2 Dog’s Death
• Poem 3 The Fog
• Poem 4 Girl Lithe and Tawny
• Poem 5 Ballad of the Landlord

Short Stories

• Chapter 1 The Rainbow-Bird
• Chapter 2 The Eyes Have It
• Chapter 3 The Little Wife

One-Act Plays

• Chapter 1 Mother’s Day
• Chapter 2 The Unexpected

Grammar & Usage

• Tense and Aspect
• Modals
• Non-finite Verb forms
• The Passive
• Prepositions
• Phrasal Verbs

CHSE Odisha Class 11 Alternative English Syllabus

CHSE Odisha Class 11 Alternative English Question Pattern and Distribution of Marks

Alternative English +2 1st Year
Full Marks: 100, Time: 3 Hours

1. Reading Comprehension.
(a) A prescribed prose piece or extract (10 Marks)
(5 questions including inferential questions are to be answered).
(b) A prescribed poem/extract (10 Marks)
(5 questions including inferential questions and those on poetic devices, figures of speech, mode, tone, style, etc.)
(c) A prescribed story/one-act play or its extract (10 Marks)
(5 questions including Inferential questions and those on literary devices, tone, etc.)
(d) An unseen passage of at least 200 words. (10 Marks)
(5 questions including inferential ones)

2. Reading-related skills.
(a) Guided note-making based on the passage 1(d) (5 Marks)
(b) Cohesive devices (10 Marks)

3. Writing skills
(a) Summarising an unknown passage as given in 1(d) with caption (10 Marks)
(b) Reconstruct a story from a given set of questions/fillers/outlines or completion of a story (10 Marks)
(c) Essay writing
(including brainstorming, organizing, outlining, writing the first draft, and revising) (10 Marks)

4. Grammar and usage (in context) (10 Marks)
(3 questions on the prescribed grammar units)

Books Prescribed: Approaches to English-I, II Published by Odisha State Bureau of Textbook Preparation & Production, Pustak Bhavan Bhubaneswar.