PROSE, POETRY, FICTION, GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY, SPOKEN ENGLISH AND COMPOSITION
Unit – I : Prose
V.S.Srinivasa Sastri -- Mahatma GandhiJohn Frazer -- Mother Terasa
R.N.Roy -- Martin Luther King
Unit – II Poetry
Wordsworth -- “Daffodils”
Byron -- “She Walks in Beauty”
Robert Frost -- “After Apple-picking”
Unit – III : Fiction: Short Stories
O. Henry -- “Gift of the Magi”Chekhov -- “The Bet”
Rabindranath Tagore -- “The Postmaster”
Unit – IV : Grammar and Spoken English
· Noun
· Pronouns
· Possessive forms
· Articles & Nouns
· Demonstratives
· Some, any, no etc.
(Response in one or two sentences)
Greeting a person; Introducing oneself; Inviting somebody to attend a function; Expressing inability to attend; Requesting; Seeking permission: Refusing permission; Asking for advice; Remembering something; Expressing sympathy; Reminding others; Congratulating; Complaining; Apologizing; Making suggestions; Warning; Asking for information/direction; Expressing annoyance; Encouraging others; Expressing possibility/impossibility; Starting a conversation with a stranger; Ending a conversation; Asking for someone’s opinion; Expressing happiness; Expressing something unpleasant; Expressing gratitude.
Unit – V Composition and Vocabulary
Composition
(1) Reading comprehension: 8 questions testing skills of locating direct information,
associative comprehension, overall understanding, drawing inferences, evaluative
comprehension and aspects of grammar and vocabulary.
(2) Arranging jumbled sentences in a chronological order or a coherent paragraph.
(3) Letter Writing (Personal letters).
Vocabulary
One Word Substitutes:
alimony, amateur, amnesty, anaesthesia, anarchist, anatomy, anonymous, archive, atheist, autobiography, cannibal, carcinogen, cardiologist, carnivorous, centenarian, contemporary, connoisseur, cosmopolitan, crew, detective, (21 – 40) emigrant, epitaph, extempore, fauna, feminist, fleet, flora, forgery, gymnasium, gynaecologist, herbivorous, hypocrisy, incorrigible, kleptomania, lexicographer, manuscript, mercenary, misanthrope, mortuary, novice, (41 – 60) obituary, omniscient, ophthalmologist, optimist, omnipotent, orphan, panacea, parasite, pedestrian, pessimist, philanthropy philatelist, polygamy, posthumous, post-mortem, secular, somnambulist , theology, unanimous, utopia.
Books Prescribed:
Jegadisan, S. Portraits in Prose. Orient Black Swan, Chennai: 2009.
Sadanand Kamalesh. & Punitha, Susheela. Spoken English: A Foundation Course. Part 2 Orient Black Swan, New Delhi, 2011
SEMESTER – I / Part III / Paper – I / Core I / Code BAE 101 / Periods 6 / Credits: 4
MODERN ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND USAGE – I
This is the first of the two grammar papers the curriculum offers, the next paper being offered in the second semester. The two grammar papers help to lay a strong foundation required for developing the student’s communicative skills and for his reaching levels of excellence in the study of literature.Unit I Words and Sentences (1—3): Nouns (76 –82); Pronouns (96 – 103)
Unit II Verbs – Present, Past, Continuous, Perfect (4 – 21)
Unit III Verbs – Future (22 – 33); Modal Verbs (44 – 53)
Unit IV Prepositions (118 – 131)
Unit V Language Lab
Prescribed Text:
Eastwood, John. Oxford Practice Grammar. 2nd ed. New Delhi: Oxford University Press,
1999.
Books for Reference:
Hewings, Martin. Advanced English Grammar. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Hornby, A.S. Guide to Patterns and Usage in English. 2nd ed. New Delhi: Oxford University
Press, 1975.
SEMESTER I / Part III / Paper – II / Core II / Code BAE 102 / Periods 6 / Credits: 4
PRE-ELIZABETHAN AND ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE
This paper is the first in the series of papers dealing with British literature. It introduces the student to writers of the Elizabethan period other than Shakespeare. The selection from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, though in modern English, gives the student a feel of the writings of the “Father of English Poetry”Unit I Poetry: Chaucer – “Nun’s Priest’s Tale”
Unit II Poetry: Edmund Spenser – “Prothalamion”
Unit III Drama Christopher Marlowe Dr. Faustus
Unit IV Drama Dekker -- The Shoemaker’s Holiday
Unit V Prose Francis Bacon -- Essays
“Of Truth”, “Of Nature in Man”, “Of Counsel”
SEMESTER I / Part III / Paper – III / Allied I / Code BAE 103 / Periods 6 / Credits: 4
LITERARY FORMS
Equally important as the understanding of the history of literature is an understanding about the various genres in which literature is created. The students need to have this knowledge before being exposed to works of literature. Hence the paper’s place in the first semester.
Unit I (a) Why We Study Literature? (b) The Lyric (c) The Ode (d) The SonnetUnit II (a) The Elegy (b) The Epic (c) The Ballad
Unit III (a) The Satire (b) Tragedy (c) Comedy (d) Tragi-comedy
Unit IV (a) The One Act Play (b) The Dramatic Monologue (c) The Essay
Unit V (a) The Novel (b) The Short Story (c) Biography (d) Autobiography
Book Prescribed:
Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. Madras: Macmillan, 1965.
Essential Reading:
Rees, R.J. English Literature: An Introduction for Foreign Readers. London: Macmillan Press Limited, 1978.
SEMESTER I / Part IV / Paper – I / NON-MAJOR ELECTIVE I / Code BAE 104 / Periods 4 / Credits: 2
COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH
The paper furnishes the student with the required professional skill for communicating effectively and successfully and is clearly job oriented. The paper, though aimed at proficiency in English, has the immediate purpose of teaching students to think creatively.
Unit I Writing Letters for Job Application (R 53) – Curriculum Vitae Preparation (R 52) –
Sending Messages by Email (R 56) – SMS (R 57) Writing Letters for Business
Communication: Purchase Orders and Sales Offer
Unit II Appointment Orders -- Writing Circulars or Notices -- Notice for Disciplinary Action -- Authorization Letters -- Technical Writing – Preparing User Manuals – Writing
Advertisements
Unit III Dynamics of Professional Presentations
Introduction, Combating Stage Fright, Preparing Power Point Presentation Slides for
Presentations, Describing Objects/ Situations/ People, Individual and Group
Presentation, Delivering Just a Minute (JAM)
Unit IV Public Speaking – Selecting an Appropriate Method – Speaking from Memory, Speaking from the Manuscript, Speaking Impromptu, Speaking from Notes, Making Speeches Interesting – Make Your Beginning Catchy, Use Wit and Humour, Use Appropriate Body Language, Use Proper Voice Modulation, Use Examples and Instances, End on an Emphatic Note, Delivering Different Types of Speeches – Welcome/ Introductory Speech, Vote of Thanks Speeches, Farewell Speeches.
Unit V Conversations and Dialogues
Self-expression and Interaction, Getting to know the other person better, Building
Trust and Credibility, Tips for Improving Conversations – Spend Unbroken Time,
Listen More Than You Speak, Ask Questions, Resist the Urge to Dominate, Use
Appropriate Body language, Situational Dialogues – Definition, Tips for Writing
Dialogues, Giving Characters Distinct Speech Patterns, Learn How to Write
Dialogues
Practical Writing Practice
Language Lab
SEMESTER I / Paper – I / Lab I / Code BAE 181 / Periods 6 / Credits: 3
LANGUAGE LAB I - Intermediate (Neutral English)
Module-1: (Phonetics Theory & Practice)
Module-2: (Communicative English-Interactive)
Module-3: (Situational Conversation-Listen)
Module-4: (Situational Conversation-Listen)
Module-5: (Situational Conversation-Listen)
Module-6: (Global Communication-Listen)
Module-7: (Global Communication-Listen)
Module-8: (Monologues with exercise)
Module-9: (Comprehension)
Module-10: (Biographies)
Module-11: (Errors in Spoken English)
Module-12: (Essential English Grammar)
Module-13: (Vocabulary)
Module-14: (Learning Through Cartoons)
Module-15: (Learning Through Fun)
Module-16: (Learning Through Games)
Module-17: (Learning Through Music)
Module-18: (Learning Through Stories)
Module-19: (Learning Through Situations)
Module-20: (Learning Through Activities)
Module-21: (Learning Through Discussion)
Module-22: (Learning Through Interview)
SEMESTER II / Part II / Paper – II / Code BAE 122 / Periods 6 / Credits: 3
PROSE, POETRY, FICTION, GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY, SPOKEN ENGLISH AND COMPOSITION
Unit – I : ProseD.H.Lawrence -- The Rocking Horse Winner
Anton Chekov -- The Bet
Somerset Maugham -- Princess September
Unit – II : Poetry
William Wordsworth -- “Lucy”
W.B.Yeats -- “The Wild Swans”
D.H.Lawrence -- “The Best of School”
T.S.Eliot -- “To the Indians who Died in Africa”
Philip Larkin -- “That Whitsun”
Unit – III : Fiction – Short Stories
William Somerset Maugham -- The Verger
R.K.Narayan -- An Astrologer’s Day
Bhabani Bhattacharya -- Glory at Twilight
Unit – IV : Grammar and Spoken English
Grammar:
1. Tenses
2. Active and Passive
Spoken English (Responses in one or two sentences)
Making assertions; Describing persons and objects; Taking a vow; Commenting on situations; Exclamations; Giving yourself time to think; Asking for someone’s opinion; Asking about preferences; Asking whether someone knows; Saying you know; Checking if someone has understood; Asking if someone agrees; Asking someone to repeat; Leaving someone for a short time; Asking if someone is able to do something; Saying you are unable to do something; Changing the subject; Avoiding giving an opinion; Ordering food at a restaurant; Talking about weather and season; Asking about daily activities; Making polite requests using, “Would (Will) you . . . . Please?”, etc.; Discussing Television Programme.
Unit – V : Composition & Vocabulary
(1) Letter Writing (Official) and Preparation of curriculum vitae.
(2) Developing hints into a story/general essay; Simple topics to be chosen for essay.
(3) Note making.
Vocabulary
Homophones:
beer – bier; berth – birth; deer – dear; desert – dessert; diseased – deceased; feat – feet; heard – herd; cast – caste; check – cheque; draught – draft; hangar – hanger; hear – here; knight – night; loan –lone; mane – main; Meet – meat; meter – metre; pair – pear; peal – peel; personal – personnel; piece – peace -- peas; pray – prey; root – route; sent -- scent – cent; cite -- site – sight; sow – sew; stationary – stationery; steal – steel; story – storey; wait – weight
Books Prescribed:
Board of Editors. Journey through Words. Orient Longman, Hyderabad: 2007.
Board of Editors. The Fragrance of Fiction. Orient Black Swan, Hyderabad: 2011.
SEMESTER II / Part III / Paper – IV / Core III / Code BAE 105 / Periods 6/ Credits: 4
MODERN ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND USAGE – II
This paper is the continuation of the grammar paper offered in the first semester and has the same objective.
Unit I The Infinitive and the – ing form (60 – 75);
Unit II Adjectives and Adverbs (104 – 117)
Unit III Reported Speech (132 – 136); Conditionals and Wish (144 – 149);
Appendices 1& 2
Unit IV Relative Clauses (137 – 143); Linking Words (150 – 153);
Appendices 3&4; Questions, Negatives and Answers (34 – 43) Appendices 5 & 6
Unit V Language Lab
Prescribed Text:
Eastwood, John. Oxford Practice Grammar. 2nd ed: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Books for Reference:
Hewings, Martin. Advanced English Grammar. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Hornby, A.S. Guide to Patterns and Usage in English. 2nd ed. New Delhi: Oxford University
Press, 1975.
SEMESTER II / Part III / Paper – V / Core IV / Code BAE 106 / Periods 6/ Credits: 4
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE
This paper is the second in the series of papers dealing with British literature. It introduces the student to the leading authors of this period and their works.Unit I Poetry John Milton Lycidas
Unit II Poetry John Donne The Extasie,
Herbert The Pilgrimage, The Collar
Andrew Marvel To His Coy Mistress
Unit III Drama Ben Jonson Every Man in His Humour
Unit IV Prose Thomas Moore Utopia
Unit V Prose The Gospel according to St. Mark (King James Version)
SEMESTER II / Part III / Paper – VI / Allied II / Code BAE 107 / Periods 6/ Credits: 4
SOCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND
This paper makes the students familiar with the different epochs in the history of England and the important social changes. This understanding is a prerequisite to a good understanding of British LiteratureUnit I (a) The Renaissance; (b) The Reformation; (c) The Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Unit II (a) Elizabethan Theatre; (b) The East India Company; (c) Colonial Expansion.
Unit III (a) Puritanism; (b) The Social Significance of the Civil War; (c) Restoration England
Unit IV (a) The Origin and Growth of Political Parties in England (b) Coffee House Life in
England; (c) Agrarian Revolution
Unit V (a) Humanitarian Movements; (b) The War of American Independence;
(c) Effects of the French Revolution; (d) The Victorian Age
Books Prescribed
Xavier, A.G. Introduction to Social History of England. Chennai: Macmillan, 1988.
Essential reading
Trevelyan, G.M. English Social History. London: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983.
SEMESTER II / Part IV / Paper II / Non Major Elective II / Code BAE 108 / Periods4/ Credits: 2
ADVERTISEMENTS AND MASS COMMUNICATION
Unit I Origins and Development of Advertising, Modern Advertising, Advertising Agencies, History of Indian Advertising, The Business of Advertising and Public Relations
Unit II Types of Advertising – Online Advertisements, Mobile phone Advertisements, the Nature and Role of Advertising and Public Relations, Advertising Planning, Testing Advertising Effectiveness, Principles of Advertising
Unit III Public Relations in Industry, Media Relations, Advertising and Social Responsibility, Ethics in Advertising and Public Relations
Unit IV Mass Communication and Social Sciences, Media Audiences, The Audience as ‘Market’, Psychology of Audiences, The ‘Mass’ Audience
Unit V Copy Righting – Sample – Exercise
Book Prescribed:
J.Kumar, Keval. Mass Communication in India. Mumbai: Jaico Publishing House, 2008.
SEMESTER II / Paper – II / Lab II / Code BAE 182 / Periods 6 / Credits: 3
LANGUAGE LAB II Advanced (International English)
Module-1: (Pronunciation Practice-Global Communicative English)
Module-2: (Pronunciation Practice-U.K Sounds & Words)
Module-3: (Communicative English-U.S & U.K Listen, Repeat)
Module-4: (Communicative English-U.S & U.K Listen, Repeat)
Module-5: (Communicative English-U.S & U.K Listen, Repeat)
Module-6: (Monologues with exercise)
Module-7: (Comprehension)
Module-8: (Biographies-ESL Lesson Plan)
Module-9: (BBC Current Events)
Module-10: (Dialogues-U.S Accent)
Module-11: (Idioms & Phrases)
SEMESTER III / Part II / Paper – III / Code BAE 212 / Periods 6/ Credits: 3
PROSE, POETRY, DRAMA, GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY, SPOKEN ENGLISH AND COMPOSITION
Unit – 1 Short Stories
Mulk Raj Anand --The Terrorist
Shama Futehally -- Photographs
Arun Joshi -- The Homecoming
Unit – II Poetry
Emily Dickinson – “Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church”
Willam Blake – “Poison Tree”
Wole Soyinka – “Telephonic Conversation”
Tagore – “Gitanjali Songs No: 35,36
Unit – III Drama (One-Act Plays)
Erisa Kironde - The Trick
M.Sajitha -- Matsyaganddhi
Unit – IV Grammar and Spoken English
Grammar
· Modals
· Introductory ‘it’,
· Introductory ‘there’
· Questions
· Reported Speech
· Infinitive forms
Spoken English Conversation in situations – dialogues
a) A father and his son talk about higher education.
b) A house owner and a tenant.
c) A Customer at a medical shop.
d) Two friends about the latest film.
e) A Salesman and a prospective buyer of a car
Unit – V : Composition and Vocabulary
Composition
1. Précis Writing 2.Email 3.Advertisement 4. Notices, Agenda, Minutes;
5.Writing descriptive and narrative passages
Vocabulary
Phrases:
in accordance with; on account of’; to account for; to aim at; apart from; to approve of; on behalf of; to carry on; in front of; in order to; to call off; to call upon; to consist of; contrary to; to depend on; to drop in; due to; in the face of; to get used to; be good at; in keeping with; in the light of; to look down on; to look up to; to look into; to refer to; in the long run; to look forward to; to make an attempt to make fun of; to opt out of; to persist in; to put an end to; with regard to; as a result of; to result in; to root out; to run into; to see through; in spite of; to take for granted; to turn against; in view of; to wipe out; be worthy of;
Books Prescribed:
K.Sujatha. On the Stage One-act Plays. Orient Black Swan, Chennai: 2011.
Mukherjee, Meenakshi. Let’s Go Home and Other Stories. Orient Black Swan, Chennai: 2009
SEMESTER III / Part III / Paper – VII / Core V / Code BAE 201 / Periods 6/ Credits: 4
NEO-CLASSICAL LITERATURE
The Greek and Roman classics gained new importance in the 1600's and 1700's. Artists, writers, and scholars of England modelled their works after those of the ancients. The neo-classicists or new classicists tried to achieve the clarity, and restraint of classical art. The purpose of this paper is to acquaint the students with the noticeable shift that had crept into the writings of the period. Writers like Dryden and Pope, divided from one another by almost half a century came together by their clear adoration of the Greek and Roman writers.
Unit I Poetry Dryden “A Song for St. Cecelia’s Day”; “Alexander’s Feast”
Unit II Poetry Pope “The Rape of the Lock”
Unit III Drama Sheridan The School for Scandal
Unit IV Prose Swift Gulliver’s Travels (Books1 & 2)
Unit V Prose Addison Selections from Coverley Papers
(i) “Sir Roger in Town”
(ii) “Sir Roger at the Theatre”
(iii) “On Witchcraft – Story of Moll White”
.