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English — 2nd Year

TS Intermediate 2nd Year English — 5 prose pieces, 3 poems, 3 short stories and extensive language skills (letter writing, dialogue, grammar). Based on the official TGBIE Annual Plan 2025-26. 80 marks, 3 hours.

Study Resources

Syllabus (2025-26)

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Prose

5 texts
How to Avoid Foolish Opinions — Bertrand Russell
The Awakening of Women — Annie Besant
Solution to the Plastic Pollution
Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa TS — Nissim Ezekiel
Guilty — Anton Chekhov
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Poetry

3 texts
Fear — Gabriela Mistral
Awake — Rabindranath Tagore
On the Grasshopper and Cricket — John Keats
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Short Stories

3 texts
The Woman on Platform No. 8 — Ruskin Bond
A Gift for Christmas
The Doctor's Word — R. K. Narayan
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Language & Composition

12 skills
Reading Comprehension (passages)
Listening Comprehension
Letter Writing (formal / informal)
Dialogue Writing
Word Stress and Phonetics
Idioms and Phrases
Verb Patterns
Resume / Bio-Data / SOP
Group Discussion
Presentation Skills
Note Making
Understanding Advertisements and Non-Verbal Data
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