Common course I communication skills in english
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- SEMESTER I COMMON COURSE I READING LITERATURE IN ENGLISH MODULE ONE: ESSAYS 1. E.V. Lucas : “Bores”
- Ode to the Nightingale”
- The Lottery Ticket” 2. O. Henry : “Jimmy Valentine”
- “Monkey’s Paw” SEMESTER I COMMON COURSE I METHODOLOGY OF HUMANITIES AND LITERATURE Module (1)
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- SEMESTER I COMMON COURSE I ENCE I – GRAMMAR AND CONVERSATIONAL SKILLS Module – 1
- (26 hours) Module – 2
- (22 hours) The objective of modules 3 4
- (22 hours) Module – 4
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COMMON COURSE I COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN ENGLISH MODULE – I Speech Sounds Phonemic symbols - Vowels - Consonants - Syllables - Word stress - Stress in polysyllabic words – Stress in words used as different parts of speech - Sentence stress – Weak forms and strong forms – Intonation – Awareness of different accents: American, British and Indian – Influence of the mother tongue MODULE – II Listening Active listening – Barriers to listening – Listening and note taking– Listening to announcements – Listening to news on the radio and television MODULE- III Speaking Word stress and rhythm – Pauses and sense groups – Falling and rising tones –Fluency and pace of delivery – Art of small talk – Participating in conversations – Making a short formal speech – Describing people, place, events and things – Group discussion skills and telephone skills MODULE – IV Reading Reading: theory and Practice – Scanning - Surveying a textbook using an index - reading with a purpose – making predictions – Understanding text structure – Locating main points – Making inferences - Reading graphics - reading critically – Reading for research SEMESTER I COMMON COURSE I READING LITERATURE IN ENGLISH MODULE ONE: ESSAYS 1. E.V. Lucas : “Bores” 2. Jawaharlal Nehru : “A Glory has Departed” 3. Amartya Sen : “Tryst with Destiny” 4. Bertrand Russell : “How to Escape from Intellectual Rubbish” MODULE TWO: POETRY 1. William Shakespeare : Sonnet XXX 2. John Keats : “Ode to the Nightingale” 3. Robert Frost : “Mending Wall” 4. David Malouf : “The Bicycle”
3. R. K. Narayan : “A Shadow” 4. Anita Desai : “A Devoted Son” 5. A J Cronin : “Two Gentlemen of Verona” MODULE FOUR: ONE-ACT PLAYS 1. Fritz Karinthy : “Refund” 2. Tennessee Williams : “Lord Byron’s Love Letter” 3. W W Jacobs : “Monkey’s Paw” SEMESTER I COMMON COURSE I METHODOLOGY OF HUMANITIES AND LITERATURE Module (1) A : Understanding the humanities - the scientific method – how humanities explore reality – the natural and social sciences – facts and interpretation –study of natural and subjective world- tastes, values and belief systems B: Language ,culture and identity- language in history- language in relation to caste, class, race and gender- language and colonialism. C: Narration and representation- what is narration-narrative modes of thinking- narration in literature, philosophy and history- reading. Module (2) The following essays are to be dealt with intensively in relation with the methodological questions raised above(module 1) 1.Peter Barry : “Theory before ‘theory’ – liberal humanism”. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. New York,Manchester. 1995. 11-38 2.Sudhir Kakar, Katharina Kakar. “The Hierarchical Man” The Indians: Portrait of a People. Penguin India, 2007. 7-24. 3.G. N. Devy. “ Introduction” in Sharankumar Limbale’s The Outcaste:Akkarmashi. New Delhi, OUP. 2008 xii-xxvi 4.V. Geetha. “God made you different, Nature made us different”. Gender. Calcutta: Stree, 2002 11-23 5.Fridrun Rinner. “The ArabianNights: Telling Stories as a means of escape from death” .Narrative. A Seminar. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 1994 180-185.
METHODOLOGYAND PERSPECTIVES OF HUMANITIES published by Pearson Longman 2009 (except chapter 4 “Indian Philosophy”) SOCIAL ROOTS OF LITERATURE. Edited by Dr.K.M.Krishnan and Tom Thomas; to be published by DC BOOKS and M. G.UNIVERSITY. SEMESTER I COMMON COURSE I ENCE I – GRAMMAR AND CONVERSATIONAL SKILLS Module – 1 Articles – Agreement – Noun and Number – Partitive use of of - Concord – Adjectives – Words ending in ly: hard, hardly, late, lately, most, mostly – Fairly and Fair – Prepositions – Tenses – Redundancies – Errors in the use of individual words (26 hours) Module – 2 Introductory there and anticipatory it – position of adverbs – Tag questions and Appended questions – use of who, whom, much, many, much, very, still, yet, make, do, the verb have – shall, will, used to, to be used to, courtesy words, greetings and salutations – Synonyms and antonyms. (22 hours) The objective of modules 3 & 4 is to prepare students for different kinds of Compositions .
Reported Speech – Direct and Reported Speech – Tense changes in reported speech – Reported questions – Reported imperatives – Syntax - Conversation and conversational analysis – Conversation a highly structured activity – Turn taking – Features of conversation – Explicit and implicit rules of conversation – Word formation – Contemporary terms – Paradigms and paraphrases – Word formation clusters.
Letter writing - format - different kind of letters – organizing information – style and tone – paraphrasing and expansion – paraphrasing poems – general essays – descriptive writing – report writing – Précis writing – Paragraph writing - Expansion of passages – Writing stories from outlines – e-mail and fax (20 hours) Directory: wp-content -> uploads -> 2017 2017 -> Pueblo West High School International Baccalaureate Extended Essay Handbook Updated November 2015 2017 -> To begin with, it should be unsurprising that “fast food” is incredibly popular in countries like Britain and the usa. Consumers spend a large portion of their income on fast foods. For example 2017 -> Managing Equal Opportunity and Diversity 2017 -> Chapter 2: The Project Management and Information Technology Context true/false 2017 -> Mizzou Teach Ag Summer Academy Application 2017 -> Semester III core courses 2017 -> Chapter 2 Ethics and the Law True False Questions 2017 -> Chapter 2—Financial Reporting: Its Conceptual Framework multiple choice 2017 -> Vijayanagara sri krishnadevaraya university Download 34.95 Kb. Share with your friends:
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