FA Part 1 students can download the new 2025-26 English textbook for Class 11 here for free. This book is published by Punjab Education, Curriculum, Training and Assessment Authority (PECTAA) and is based on the Revised National Curriculum of Pakistan 2023.
The new 2025-26 English book is a significant update from the older edition. It uses an integrated approach combining reading, grammar, oral communication, and writing skills in each unit. With 14 theme-based units, it prepares FA students for both board exams and real-world English communication.
Book Overview
- Class: 11th Class / 1st Year
- Subject: English
- Category: FA (Faculty of Arts)
- Publisher: PECTAA (Punjab Education, Curriculum, Training and Assessment Authority)
- Edition: 2025-26 (Based on National Curriculum 2023)
- Total Units: 14
- Format: PDF (Free Download)
Unit List
Unit 1: Khatam-un-Nabiyeen Hazrat Muhammad صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم
Theme: Ethics and Values / Handling of Trust / Self-discipline. This unit focuses on the life and teachings of the Holy Prophet and develops paragraph writing and informative essay skills.
Unit 2: Responsibility of the Youth in Nation-Building
Theme: Quality Education. Students develop argumentative essay writing and group presentation skills while reading about the role of youth in building a stronger Pakistan.
Unit 3: A Bird Came Down the Walk (Poem)
Theme: Connecting People and Nature. A nature poem that introduces figures of speech, compound prepositions, and objective summary writing skills.
Unit 4: Team Moon
Theme: Teamwork. This unit covers the Apollo moon mission and develops adjectival, prepositional, and adverbial phrases alongside book review writing skills.
Unit 5: Impact of Global Warming on Pakistan
Theme: Effects of Global Warming on Pakistan. Students read about environmental issues and practice writing informative essays using idioms, proverbs, and transitional devices.
Unit 6: The Echoing Green (Poem)
Theme: Environment Matters. A poem about nature and community that develops vocabulary skills including meaning of words, parts of speech, tenses, and paraphrasing.
Unit 7: What You Do is What You Are
Theme: Respecting Self and Others. This unit explores personal responsibility and character, with a focus on gerunds, infinitives, participles, and analytical essay writing.
Unit 8: Clean Water
Theme: SDGs / Clean Water and Sanitation. Students read about global water issues and develop formal letter and email writing skills along with word maps and commonly confused words.
Unit 9: Freedom (Poem)
Theme: Literature and Poetry / Freedom. A poem about the spirit of freedom that develops capitalization, punctuation, and precis writing skills.
Unit 10: The Punishment of Shahpesh, the Persian, on Khipil, the Builder
Theme: Soft Skills / Decision Making. A story that teaches decision making and builds sentence pattern skills and narrative writing ability.
Unit 11: Those Winter Sundays (Poem)
Theme: Human Relationships. A moving poem about family love and sacrifice that develops dictionary skills, thesaurus use, and dialogue writing.
Unit 12: The Impact of AI on Society, Human Relationships, and Ethics
Theme: Digital Media. A contemporary unit on artificial intelligence and its effects, building word map skills and short story writing ability.
Unit 13: Ruba’iyat (Poem)
Theme: Literature and Poetry / Spiritualism. Selected verses from the Rubaiyat develop indirect and direct speech skills alongside descriptive composition writing.
Unit 14: The End of the Beginning
Theme: Literature and Poetry / Gender Role. The final unit develops inferred meaning in context and editing and proofreading skills for strong writing accuracy.
Download English Class 11 PECTAA 2025-26 PDF
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Who Should Read This
This book is for all FA, FSC, ICS, and ICOM Part 1 students studying English under the new 2025-26 Punjab Board curriculum. Students currently appearing in board exams under the National Curriculum 2023 should use this edition. The integrated approach of reading, grammar, writing, and oral skills in each unit makes it much more practical than older editions.
Applicable Boards
This PECTAA textbook is used across all Punjab Board affiliated colleges — Lahore Board, Faisalabad Board, Gujranwala Board, Multan Board, Rawalpindi Board, Sargodha Board, DG Khan Board, and Sahiwal Board.
FAQs
Is this the new 2025-26 English book for Class 11?
Yes. This is the new PECTAA English textbook for Class 11 / 1st Year, based on the Revised National Curriculum of Pakistan 2023. It is different from the older Book I and Book III editions.
How is this book different from the old English Book I and Book III?
The old edition had separate books for short stories (Book I) and plays and poems (Book III). The new 2025-26 PECTAA edition is a single integrated book with 14 theme-based units that combine reading, grammar, writing, and oral communication skills.
How many units are in this book?
There are 14 units covering themes like ethics, environment, teamwork, digital media, human relationships, and literature.
Is this book for FA students only?
No. This book is common for all intermediate categories under Punjab Board including FA, FSC, ICS, and ICOM. All 1st year students follow the same English curriculum.
Which edition should I use for my board exams?
Students following the 2025-26 curriculum should use this new PECTAA edition. Students who were enrolled under the older curriculum may still need the old Book I and Book III. Check with your college for confirmation.