This is the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) main English reader for Class XII, Flamingo, prescribed for the Core Course. It is an English medium (Roman script) book — the complete text, the prose, the poems and the exercises are in English, and there is no Hindi content in it. It is prescribed for CBSE schools and for state boards that follow the NCERT curriculum.
Flamingo is the principal textbook of the Class 12 English Core course and is read alongside Vistas, the supplementary reader; both are prescribed and both carry weightage in the board paper. It holds the prose and poetry sections. The prose includes The Last Lesson, Lost Spring, Deep Water, The Rattrap, Indigo, Poets and Pancakes, The Interview and Going Places. The poetry section carries My Mother at Sixty-six, An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum, Keeping Quiet, A Thing of Beauty, A Roadside Stand and Aunt Jennifer's Tigers.
At Class 12 the questions ask for interpretation and for a written answer in the student's own words. Each prose chapter carries "Think As You Read" prompts placed through the passage and a "Thinking About the Text" section at the end, followed by "Thinking About Language" work and "Talking About the Text" discussion prompts. The poems are examined on theme, imagery and the poet's intent, and the extract-based questions in the board paper are set on lines lifted directly from these poems — which is the practical reason to read the text as printed rather than a guide's paraphrase.
For students the board weightage is the immediate reason to work from this book. Beyond that, the reading and writing demands of the Class 12 English Core paper — comprehension of an unseen passage, inference, and answering in a controlled word limit — are the skills these exercises are designed to build.
Key Features:
English medium book — complete content written in English (Roman script), no Hindi content
Published by NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training)
Flamingo — Textbook in English for Class XII (Class 12), Core Course, the main reader
Prescribed for CBSE schools and state boards following the NCERT curriculum
Companion volume to Vistas, the Class 12 supplementary reader
Prose includes The Last Lesson, Lost Spring, Deep Water, The Rattrap
Prose includes Indigo, Poets and Pancakes, The Interview, Going Places
Poetry includes My Mother at Sixty-six, An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum
Poetry includes Keeping Quiet, A Thing of Beauty, A Roadside Stand, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
"Think As You Read" prompts placed through each prose passage
"Thinking About the Text" questions on theme, character and intent
"Thinking About Language" and "Talking About the Text" sections
Extract-based board questions are set on these poems directly
Base textbook for the CBSE Class 12 English Core board examination
Standard NCERT text — the base book before any guide or question bank
यह पुस्तक राष्ट्रीय शैक्षिक अनुसंधान और प्रशिक्षण परिषद (NCERT) द्वारा कक्षा XII (कक्षा 12) अंग्रेज़ी कोर पाठ्यक्रम हेतु निर्धारित मुख्य पाठ्यपुस्तक Flamingo है। ध्यान दें: यह पुस्तक पूर्णतः अंग्रेज़ी भाषा एवं रोमन लिपि में है — इसमें हिन्दी भाषा का प्रयोग नहीं है। यह पूरक पुस्तक Vistas के साथ पढ़ी जाती है; सम्पूर्ण पाठ्यक्रम हेतु दोनों पुस्तकें निर्धारित हैं। इसमें गद्य एवं पद्य दोनों खंड सम्मिलित हैं — The Last Lesson, Lost Spring, Deep Water, The Rattrap, Indigo, Poets and Pancakes, The Interview तथा Going Places जैसे गद्य पाठ और My Mother at Sixty-six, An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum, Keeping Quiet, A Thing of Beauty, A Roadside Stand तथा Aunt Jennifer's Tigers जैसी कविताएँ। प्रत्येक पाठ के साथ "Think As You Read", "Thinking About the Text", "Thinking About Language" तथा "Talking About the Text" खंड दिए गए हैं। बोर्ड परीक्षा में काव्यांश-आधारित प्रश्न इन्हीं कविताओं की पंक्तियों से पूछे जाते हैं, अतः मूल पुस्तक से पढ़ना आवश्यक है।
