The curriculum and curricular materials have been developed and revised on a regular basis with the aim of making education objective-oriented, practical, relevant, and job-oriented. It is necessary to instill the feelings of nationalism, national integrity, and democratic spirit in the students and equip them with morality, discipline and self-reliance, creativity, and thoughtfulness. It is essential to develop in them the linguistic and mathematical skills, knowledge of science, information and communication technology, environment, health and population, and life skills. It is also necessary to bring in them the feeling of preserving and promoting arts and aesthetics, humanistic norms, values, and ideals. It has become the need of the present time to make the students aware of respect for ethnicity, gender, disabilities, languages, religions, cultures, regional diversity, human rights, and social values so as to make them capable of playing the role of responsible citizens. This textbook has been developed in line with the Secondary Level English Curriculum, 2071 (2014) by incorporating the recommendations of various education commissions and the feedback obtained from various schools, workshops, and seminars, interaction programs attended by teachers, students, and parents.
In bringing out the textbook in this form, the contribution of the Executive Director of the Curriculum Development Center (CDC) Baburam Poudel, Prof. Dr. Chandreshor Mishra, Prof. Dr. Bal Mukunda Bhandari, Dr. Rishi Ram Rijal, Ganga Dhar Hada, Sita Sharma, Homnath Again and Arun Kumar Rai is highly acknowledged. The subject matter and language of this textbook were edited by Chandra Kanta Bhusal and Ramesh Prasad Ghimire. The Curriculum Development Center (CDC) extends sincere thanks to all those who have contributed to developing this textbook.
This textbook contains a variety of materials from various genres and engaging exercises which help learners to achieve the competency and learning outcomes set in the curriculum. Each unit deals with all the language skills and aspects in an integrated manner. An attempt has been made to make this textbook as much user-friendly as possible. The students, teachers, and other stakeholders are expected to make constructive comments and suggestions to make it a more useful learning material.
2017 Government of Nepal Ministry of Education
Curriculum Development Centre
