Class XII English Core

Class 12 English Core NCERT Notes — Flamingo & Vistas

Chapter-wise summaries • Word meanings • Q&A • Extract-based MCQs • Writing skills

Use the links below to open chapter notes from Flamingo and Vistas. Each post includes a short summary, meanings, solved questions, and practice MCQs (where available). A writing skills block is added at the end.

Flamingo — Prose Flamingo — Poetry Vistas Writing Skills

Flamingo — Prose (Class 12)

1. The Last Lesson — Alphonse Daudet
2. Lost Spring — Anees Jung
3. Deep Water — William O. Douglas
4. The Rattrap — Selma Lagerlöf
   • Complete solution with Q&A
5. Indigo — Louis Fischer (Summary, Explanation, Q&A, MCQs)
6. Poets and Pancakes — Asokamitran
7. The Interview
   • Part I — Christopher Silvester
   • Part II — An Interview with Umberto Eco
8. Going Places — A. R. Barton

Flamingo — Poetry (Class 12)

1. My Mother at Sixty-Six — Kamala Das
2. An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum — Stephen Spender
3. Keeping Quiet — Pablo Neruda
4. A Thing of Beauty — John Keats
5. A Roadside Stand — Robert Frost
6. Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers — Adrienne Rich

Vistas — Supplementary Reader (Class 12)

1. The Third Level — Jack Finney
2. The Tiger King — Kalki
3. Journey to the End of the Earth — Tishani Doshi
4. The Enemy — Pearl S. Buck
5. Should Wizard Hit Mommy — John Updike
6. On the Face of It — Susan Hill
7. Evans Tries an O-level — Colin Dexter
   • MCQs & extract-based practice
8. Memories of Childhood
   1. The Cutting of My Long Hair — Zitkala-Ša
   2. We Too Are Human Beings — Bama

Writing Skills (Class 12)

Formats & Guides

• Notice Writing — Format & Marking Scheme
• Invitations & Replies — All formats with samples

Practice & Models

• Report Writing — Format, topics, samples
• Letter Writing — Complete guide

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