ISC Class 12 Modern Foreign Languages Syllabus 2023-24: Download Syllabus PDF

Project Work in Class XII comprises of assessment of candidates in three projects, one each on Listening, Speaking and Writing Skills. 

Listening and Speaking skills are to be assessed internally, by the School in Class XII. 

Writing Skills are to be assessed externally by the Visiting Examiner, appointed locally and approved by the Council. 

Details of assignments for Project Work are given below: 

Listening Skills (to be internally assessed by the subject teacher) 

An unseen passage of about 500 words or a poem (of appropriate length) may be read aloud, twice, the first time at normal reading speed and the next time at a slower speed. The passage/poem may be taken from any book, newspaper, magazine, journal and so on but not from an ICSE or ISC textbook. A suitable audio clip may also be used. 

Students may make brief notes during the readings/playing of the audio clip, followed by answering objective-type questions based on the passage/poem/audio clip, on the paper provided. 

Speaking Skills (to be internally assessed by the subject teacher) 

Students are to be assessed through an individual presentation, e.g. extempore speaking, declamation, recitation, debate, of about three minutes followed by a discussion with the subject teacher, for another two or three minutes. 

List of suggested assignments for Project Work: 

1. Narrating an experience 

2. Giving directions or instructions on how to make or operate something 

3. Providing a description 

4. Giving a report 

5. Expressing an opinion or a theme-based conversation 

6. Giving a speech on a selected topic. 

Writing Skills (Language/Literature): to be assessed externally by the Visiting Examiner 

Candidates will be required to undertake one written assignment of about 250 words on any aspect of Language/Literature syllabus covered in Class XII. 

List of suggested assignments for Project Work: 

1. Summarising/paraphrasing of the chosen text. 

2. An autobiographical experience. 

3. Review of a book/serial/play/performance. 

4. Writing a short story based on a poem. 

5. Writing a poem based on a story. 

6. Analysing the relevance of a selected story/couplets in the present-day context. 

7. Imagining an alternate outcome or ending or extension of the chosen text and its impact on the plot/setting/characters/mood and tone. 

8. Imagining oneself as one of the main characters of the story/novel/drama and describing what one would like to change in the story/novel/drama, giving reasons for the same. 

9. Analysing the theme of the story/poem/novel and expressing one’s opinion on the same.