NEB Grade 11 Compulsory English Book:

The National Curriculum Framework (NCF) advocates for the promotion of skill-oriented, life skill-based, employment-driven and value-based school education.

It envisions developing the human capital dedicated to the nation, nationality, national integrity, and Nepali speciality. English textbook for grade 11 has been prepared following the spirit of NCF 2076 and Secondary Level Curriculum 2076 (Grade 11 and Grade12). An attempt has also been made to incorporate the emerging needs of learners. The book includes the contents to develop all four language skills blended in the tasks and activities with contextual grammar and related vocabulary.

The book has two sections: language development and literature. The language development section includes a range of contemporary issue-based local and global thematic texts intended to develop intensive reading skills and foster competence in grammar, vocabulary, speech and writing of different types. The literature section includes genre-based literary texts for both intensive and extensive reading so as to enable the learners to discern different aspects of the literary texts and practise creative writing. Each text is followed by adequate exercises to foster creativity and critical interpretation in the learners along with interactive skills and sensitivity about the culture and tradition.

This textbook was written by Mohan Singh Saud and edited by Prof. Dr. Bal Mukunda Bhandari, Dr. Ganga Ram Gautam, Dr. Gopal Prasad Pandey and Prof. Dr. Jiba Lal Sapkota. Director-General Keshab Prasad Dahal, Dr. Lekh Nath Poudel and Director Tuka Raj Adhikari also contributed to shaping the book in this form. Several experts and practitioners that include; Nim Prakash Singh Rathaur, Shankar Adhikari, Nabin

Kumar Khadka, Matrika Subedi, Ramesh Dhakal, Pashupati Pandey and Ananda Dhungana contributed to the revision and development of the tasks, particularly in the language development section. Similarly, Gangadhar Hada, Rani Jha, Purna Bahadur Lamichhane, Mahendra Kumar Shrestha, Hari Prasad Kafle, Hari Prasad Dhakal, Dipendra Regmi and Tanka Nath Acharya provided suggestions and feedback. The

Illustration of the book was done by Dev Koimee and the layout was designed by Khados Sunuwar. The Curriculum Development Centre (CDC) extends sincere thanks to all of them. The centre would like to acknowledge all the sources from where the texts, audios and tasks are borrowed and adapted.

The centre always welcomes constructive feedback for the betterment of its publications.

2020 Curriculum Development Centre, Sanothimi, Bhaktapur

Section I: Language Development

	S.N. Unit
1.	Education and Humanity
2.	Communication
3.	Media and Society
4.	History and Culture
5.	Life and Love
6.	Health and Excercise
7.	Ecology and Development
8.	Humour and Satire
9.	Democracy and Human Rights
10.	Home Life and Family Relationship
11.	Arts and Creation
12.	Fantasy
13.	Career and Entrepreneurship
14.	Power and Politics
15.	War and Peace
16.	Critical Thinking
17.	Globalization and Diaspora

Section II: Literature

	Unit 1 Short Stories
1.	The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
2.	The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe
3.	God Sees the Truth but Waits by Leo Tolstoy
4.	The Wish by Roald Dahl
5.	Civil Peace by Chinua Achebe
6.	Two Little Soldiers by Guy de Maupassant
7.	An Astrologer’s Day by R. K. Narayan

	Unit 2 Poems
1.	Corona Says by Vishnu S. Rai
2.	A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
3.	All the World's a Stage by William Shakespeare
4.	Who are you, little i? by E. E. Cummings
5.	The Gift in Wartime by Tran Mong Tu

	Unit 3 Essays
1.	Sharing Tradition by Frank LaPena
2.	How to Live Before You Die by Steve Jobs
3.	What I Require From Life by J.B.S. Haldane
4.	What is Poverty? by Jo Goodwin Parker
5.	Scientific Research is a Token of Humankind’s Survival by Vladimir Keilis-Borok