Unit 1

Kinds of sentences, usage of preposition, use of adjectives, adverbs for description, Tenses, Determiners- Agreement (Subject – Verb, Pronoun- Antecedent) collocation, Phrasal Verbs, Modifiers, Linkers/ Discourse Markers, Question Tags

Unit 2

Paragraph writing – Cohesion – Development: definition, comparison, classification, contrast, cause and effect – Essay writing: Descriptive and Narrative

Unit 3

Letter Writing – Personal (congratulation, invitation, felicitation, gratitude, condolence etc.) Official (Principal / Head of the department/ College authorities, Bank Manager, Editors of newspapers and magazines)

Unit 4

Reading Comprehension – Skimming and scanning- inference and deduction – Reading different kinds of material –Speaking: Narration of incidents / stories/ anecdotes- Current News Awareness

Unit 5

1. Prose: John Halt’s ‘Three Kinds of Discipline’ [Detailed]
2. Max Beerbohm’s ‘The Golden Drugget’ [Detailed]
3. Poems: Ogden Nash- ‘This is Going to Hurt Just a Little Bit’ [Detailed]
4. Robert Kroetsch– ‘I am Getting Old Now’, Langston Hughes- ‘I, Too’ [Detailed]
5. Wole Soyinka- ‘Telephone Conversation’ [Non- Detailed]
6. Kamala Das- ‘The Dance of the Eunuchs’ [Non-Detailed]

Short Stories: Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’, Ruskin Bond’s ‘The Time Stops at Shamili’ [Non- Detailed]

To help students obtain an ability to communicate fluently in English; to enable and enhance the student’s skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking; to impart an aesthetic sense and enhance creativity

Core Reading

1. Ruskin Bond, Time Stops at Shamli and Other Stories, Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 1989
2. Syamala, V. Speak English in Four Easy Steps, Improve English Foundation Trivandrum: 2006
3. Beerbohm, Max, The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm (NYRB Classics), Phillip Lopate (Introduction, Editor), The New York Review of Book Publishers.
4. Edger Allan Poe. The Selected Works of Edger Allan Poe. A Running Press, 2014.
5. Online sources

References

1. Ruskin Bond, Time Stops at Shamli and Other Stories, Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 1989
2. Martinet, Thomson, A Practical English Grammar, IV Ed. OUP, 1986.
3. Murphy, Raymond, Murphy’s English Grammar, CUP, 2004
4. Online sources