Higher Secondary Plus One/Plus Two English Notes

Higher Secondary English Course Book is designed to meet the growing demands of students in the challenging and competent age. It mainly focuses on making the learners use the language efficiently and appropriately in the situations they encounter. All units are based on specific objectives centered on learner outcomes. To know the progress of study, assessments are done through two types of evaluation – Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CE) and Term Evaluation (TE).

Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation

CCE is done to ensure the learner participation in the learning process, his comprehension skills, ability to present the knowledge acquired , his clarity of concept and its originality etc. CE is done by 3 types – learning process assessment, Portfolio assessment, Unit based assessment. Maximum score for CE is 20.

Term Evaluation

Unlike other subjects, here assessment is done by considering language elements, discourses, language skills. Maximum score is 80.

A Glance at Units

Higher Secondary First Year(Plus One) English

English Course Book consists of 6 units. Each unit comprises number of chapters like prose, poem, play etc. and they are topically linked also.

UNIT 1: GLIMPSES OF GREATNESS

Four chapters are there in the first Unit

• His First Flight (story)
• I will Fly (speech)
• Quest For the Theory of Everything(Profile) and
• IF(poem)

This Unit introduces unique characters who motivate the learners to dream high. It stresses the need to develop self confidence and fight against the hardships and overcome them.
Activities on focus - Read and comprehend stories, speeches, profiles, personal essays, writing reviews, prepare interview questions and using cohesive devices and conditionals effectively.

UNIT 2: WORDS AND DEEDS

Three Chapters are there in the Second unit

• And Then Gandhi Came (Essay)
• Death the Leveller (Poem)
• The Price of Flowers (Short story)

It creates an awareness that good deeds give meaning to life. It upholds the significance of values and attitudes in life.
Activities on Focus – Note making, speech, drafting letters, character sketches, using concord appropriately, literary elements etc:-

UNIT 3: BEYOND THE HORIZON

Three Chapters are there in the Third unit.

• Sunrise on the Hills (poem)
• The Trip of Lehorla (Short story)
• Sacred Turtles of Kandavu (based on Fijian legend)

It is about the journey to explore knowledge and how it proves to be a different entertaining and informative experience.
Activities on Focus- Drafting the script of live TV report, designing travel brochure, travel essay and info, write ups, narrating events from different points of view, performing debates etc.

UNIT 4: BRAVING THE HAZARDS

Three Chapters are there in the Fourth unit.

• Disasters and Disaster management(Essay)
• Serang of Ranaganji (Short story)
• The Wreck of the Titanic (poem)

This unit familiarizes the students with the major disasters, its causes and disaster management as well. The poem is also about the one of the greatest disasters in sea, the wreck of the Titanic on its maiden voyage. 
Activities on Focus –note making, précis writing, report writing, letter writing, critical appreciation, use of language elements like participles, adverbs, passive forms of verbs etc.

UNIT 5: HARMONY OF LIFE

The Chapters are

• Gooseberry (Story)
• To Sleep (poem)
• Going Out for a walk (Essay)

Here students discuss the role of health and wellness for a successful life and understands the necessity of proper rest in order to have a peaceful mind and happiness. They get familiar with the features of personal essay.
Activities on Focus – seminar report, welcome speech, understanding the structure of exclamatory sentence, framing questions, preparing critical appreciation of poem etc.

UNIT 6: LEAPS AND BOUNDS

The Chapters are

• Cyber space (Essay)
• Is society dead? (Article)
• Conceptual Fruit (Short story)

Varied aspects of technology and its economical, sociological, cultural and philosophical dimensions are discussed here. It also attempts to study the influence of technology in our life and the future challenges of IPod generation.
Activities on focus – persuasive essay writing, email writing, report writing, writing reports on interviews etc.

For Theory Examination(TE) preparation:

Activities based on text be practiced. Speech, profile, emails, write ups. etc related to textual content be given focus.
Debates, discussions, interviews on textual and general – should be practised
Character sketches and review writing are prominent.
Letter writing, report writing, note making, précis writing, essay writing - text based but with general ideas be done with.
Travel brochures, travel essay, travel info, live TV report have to be focused.
Cohesive devices, concord , editing, if clause etc must be familiarized.
Format of each type of activities be specially followed.
Textual content be familiarized where as it should be modified with personal ideas and language as required in the examination.
Language elements should be made clear to enhance answering application level questions.

Higher Secondary Second Year(Plus Two) English

English Course Book for second year has been developed on the basis of specific themes and concepts so that it enhances their language skills to cater to their needs after their completion of the Higher Secondary Course. It includes different literary works – short stories, poems, plays, interviews etc. Due importance is given for grammatical elements. An integrated approach is adopted aiming at the linguistic and pragmatic competence of the students. There are five units.

UNIT 1: FLIGHTS OF FREEDOM

The Chapters are

• The 3Ls of Empowerment (speech)
• Any Woman (poem)
• Horegallu (anecdote)
• Match Box (Story)

This unit analyses the concept of women empowerment, the rights and privileges of women and her multifarious role. It upholds the importance of freedom for women also. The story displays the typical Indian woman and how she endures her male chauvinist husband.
Activities on focus: speech, panel discussion, poem review, designing blurb, narrating events from different points of view, analyzing characters etc.

UNIT 2: HEIGHTS OF HARMONY

The Chapters are

• Mending Wall (poem)
• Amigo Brothers (Story)
• The Hour of Truth (one act play)

It helps the students to develop values like honesty, friendship, love, truthfulness etc. Also it presents the dangers of misusing one’s power.
Activities on focus: appreciating poem, character sketches, preparing and presenting announcements for various programmes, writing reviews, making news reports, preparing for debates and language practice – tense, reported speech, voice etc:-

UNIT 3: CHALLENGES OF LIFE

Chapters - 

• A Three Wheeled Revolution (interview)
• Didi (life writing)
• Stammer (Poem)

The concept of social entrepreneurship and the importance of social commitments are introduced here.
Activities on foucs: creating blogs, preparing job application and resume writing, responding to interview questions, writing emails, using idiomatic expressions and phrasal verbs.

UNIT 4: LIVE AND LET LIVE

Chapters - 

• When A Sapling is Planted? (speech)
• Rice (poem)
• Dangers of Drug Abuse (essay)

This unit insists on the need of preserving nature, the values of farming and the impacts of reducing significance of agriculture sector and commercialization of it. Also it creates an awareness of health hazards due to over use of drugs. 
Activities on focus: drafting letters of enquiry, write ups on current social issues, preparing short essays , understanding different language expressions adverbial phrases etc.

UNIT 5: THE LIGHTER SIDE

Chapters – 

• Post Early For Christmas ( one act play)
• This is Going to Hurt a Little Bit ( poem)
• Crime and Punishment ( Story)

This unit depicts a sense of humour. The story presents the significant role of Parent and teacher in the life of a student.
Activities on focus: poem appreciation, writing scripts, writing arguments for debate and using ‘as if’ and prepositions.

For Theory Examination(TE) preparation:

Textual content must be clear to the students.
Preparation be done to answer varied forms of questions – objective type, multiple choice, short answer and essay type etc.
Write ups, reviews, essays, character sketches, narrations – based on texts be expressed in own words. In addition to this,your own points related to the concept would make better answer.
Topic related debates and interviews can be expected.
e-mails, job applications, letters of enquiry – be given special attention
Practices on report writing (newspaper report,seminar reports and reports for school magazine), blog and blurb writing would be helpful.
Announcements/ compering and script writing be familiarized.

MUST KNOW (Plus One & Plus Two)

• Students are advised to follow the right format of each activity.
• Textual content and general ideas related to the topic be get readied for better performance 
• Grammar part must be worked out at the application level.
• Score of each question be taken into care while answering questions.
• In the case of language, along with the content, organization of ideas, presentation, originality of language and competence in it will be considered.

To aid the students’ preparation for their Higher Secondary board examination, study notes and sample question papers of Kerala Higher Secondary Plus One and Plus Two English prepared by Reena Mathai, HSST, Govt HSS, Pirappancodu, Vembayam, Trivandrum, Ananthi M, HSST, Govt HSS Perumpalam, Alappuzha, Jeeja R, Govt HSS, Oachira and Vidya V.T, Govt HSS,Kayanna, Kozhikkodu based on the above said expected learning outcomes are published here.

Make use of your time and study materials to take maximum score. Prepare the best to perform the best. Wish you all a great success!!!!

Plus One English Notes(Text Book Based)-Unit I
Unit 1: Lesson 1 His First Flight- Liam O’ Flaherty
Unit 1: Lesson 2 I Will Fly- Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam
Unit 1: Lesson 4 IF-Rudyard Kipling
Unit 1: Lesson 4 IF-Rudyard Kipling(Analysis-PPT Slide)
Unit 2: Lesson 1 And then Gandhi Came
Plus One English Notes(Text Book Based)-Unit II
Unit 2: Lesson 2 The Price of Flowers-Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyaya
Unit 2: Lesson 3 Death the Leveller
Plus One English Notes(Text Book Based)-Unit III
Unit 3: Lesson 1 Sunrise on the Hills
Unit 3: Lesson 1 Sunrise on the Hills(Review)
Unit 3: Lesson 2 The Trip of Le Horla
Unit 3: Lesson 3 The Sacred Turtles of Kadavu
Plus One English Notes(Text Book Based)-Unit IV
Unit 4: Lesson 2 Character of Serang
Unit 4: Lesson 3 The Wreck of the Titanic(Review)
Plus One English Notes(Text Book Based)-Unit V
Unit 5: Lesson 1 Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov-Review
Unit 5: Lesson 1 Gooseberries by Anton Chekhov-Character Sketch
Unit 5: Lesson 3 Going out for a Walk - Activity 3-Speech
Plus One English Question Bank
Plus One Question Bank by VHSE Career Guidance Cell
Plus One English Quick Notes by Malappuram District Panchayath
Plus One(+1) English Focus area based Notes
Plus One(+1) English Focus area based notes-Vijayabheri by Malappuram District panchayath
Plus One(+1) English Focus area based notes prepared by Sindhu P, Govt GHSS, Kallai
Plus One(+1) English Grammer notes prepared by Sindhu P, Govt GHSS, Kallai
Plus One(+1) English All-in-one notes prepared by Sreenath Belay J Z, Govt. Fisheries HSS,Kozhikkodu
Plus One(+1) English Kite Victers Video Links PDF(based on focus area 2021)
Plus One(+1) English Model Question Paper Solved(Detailed Answer key)
Plus One(+1) English Discourses
Higher Secondary Plus One English discourses with format
Plus One(+1) English Focus area based Revision Test
Plus One(+1) English Focus area based Revision Test-1-Question Paper & Key
Plus One(+1) English Focus area based Revision Test-2-Quetion Paper & Key
Plus One(+1) English Focus area based Revision Test-3-Quetion Paper
Plus Two English Notes-Unit I
Unit 1: Chapter 1 The 3 L's of Empowerment
Unit 1: Chapter 1 The 3 L's of Empowerment-Video Class by Remadevi M.P
Unit 1-Lesson 2 Any Woman Prepared by Vidya
Unit 1: Lesson 2 Any Woman-Notes by Ananthi.M
Unit 1: Lesson 2 Any Woman-Video Class by Remadevi M P
Unit 1: Lesson 3 Match Box-Character Sketch of Nomita
Unit 1: Lesson 3 Match Box-Character Sketch of Nomita's Mother(Reena Mathai)
Unit 1: Lesson 3 Match Box-Character Sketch of Ajit
Unit 1: Lesson 3 Match Box-Activity II Panel Discussion
Unit 1: Lesson 3 Match Box-Video Class by Remadevi M P(Part 1)
Unit 1: Lesson 3 Match Box-Video Class by Remadevi M P(Part 2)
Unit 1: Lesson 4 Horegallu-Video Class by Remadevi M P
Plus Two English Notes-Unit II
Unit 2: Lesson 1 Mending Wall-Review of the Poem
Unit 2: Lesson 1 Mending Wall-Video Class by Remadevi M P
Unit 2: Lesson 3 The Hour of Truth -Character Sketch of Baldwin
Unit 2: Lesson 3 The Hour of Truth - Activity 4-Corruption curtails Development of Nation
Plus Two English Notes-Unit III
Unit 3: Lesson 1 A Three Wheeled Revolution -Activity 1-Email
Unit 3: Lesson 1 A Three Wheeled Revolution -Entrepreneurship(Reena Mathai)
Unit 3: Lesson 2 DIDI -Activity 1 -Job Application
Unit 3: Lesson 3 Stammer-A reading
Unit 3: Lesson 3 Stammer-Review
Unit 3: Lesson 3 Stammer-Review in Malayalam
Plus Two English Notes-Unit IV
Unit 4: Lesson 1 When a Sapling is Planted-Activity 1-Speech
Unit 4: Lesson 2 Rice - Activity 2 & 3
Plus Two English Notes-Unit V
Unit 5: Lesson 1 Post Early for Christmas -Review
Unit 5: Lesson 2 This is going to Hurt just a little bit- Review
Unit 5: Lesson 3 Crime and Punishment - Review
Unit 5: Lesson 3 Crime and Punishment -Importance or role of Teacher-Student  Relationship(Ananthi.M)
Kaithang Short Notes
Plus Two(XII) English- Quick Notes(Kaithang) by Pathanamthitta District Panchayath
Plus Two English Exam Tips
Plus Two(XII) English- Points to remember Prepared by Ananthi.M
Plus One/Plus Two English Question Paper
Plus One Model Question Paper(Unit 1)
Plus One Model Question Paper by SCERT
Plus One Probable Questions
Plus Two Probable Questions
Plus Two Model Question Paper-1
Plus Two Model Question Paper 1-Answer Key by Ananthi.M
Plus Two Model Question Paper-2
Plus Two Model Question Paper 2-Answer Key(Ananthi)
Plus Two Model Question Paper 2-Answer Key(Reena Mathai)
Plus Two Question Paper-3
Plus Two Question Paper 3-Answer Key(Reena Mathai)
Plus Two Model Question Paper by SCERT
Solved SCERT Question Paper(Plus Two)
Higher Secondary Previous Question Papers
Higher Secondary Plus Two Question Bank Edumate by SCERT
Plus Two English Focus Area 2021
Class 12 English Notes based on SCERT focus area 2021 & 2022 by Team Hsslive
Class 12 English Notes based on SCERT focus area 2021 by Malappuram District Panchayath
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