PART - II – ENGLISH
I YEAR – I SEMESTER
COURSE CODE: 412E
COURSE 1- PROSE AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Text Prescribed
Pearls of Prose – An Anthology of Prose Ed. by Dr.V.Nagarajan, Dr.S.Ramanathan and Dr.P.Madhan, Harrows Publications, Chennai.
Active English Grammar and Composition Ed.Board of Editors, Macmillan.
Unit – I
My Visions for India - A.P.J.Abdul Kalam
On Saying ‘Please’ - A.G.Gardiner
Unit – II
My Financial Career - Stephen Leacock
Time and the Machine - Aldous Huxley
Unit – III
Sweets for Angels - R.K.Narayan
Dangers of Drug Abuse - Hardin B.Jones
Unit – IV
Tenses
Unit – V
Articles, Auxiliary Verbs, Active – Passive Voice
Allocation of Working Hours per week
Prose - 3 hours
Grammar - 3 hours
Total - 6 hours
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I YEAR – II SEMESTER
COURSE CODE: 422E
COURSE II – PROSE, EXTENSIVE READING AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Texts Prescribed
Pearls of Prose – An Anthology of Prose Ed. by Dr.V.Nagarajan, Dr.S.Ramanathan and Dr.P.Madhan, Harrows Publications, Chennai.
Six Short Stories, Ed. by Dr.V.Nagarajan, Dr.S.Ramanathan and Dr.P.Madhan, Harrows Publications, Chennai.
Active English Grammar and Composition Ed.Board of Editors, Macmillan.
Unit – I
My Greatest Olympic Prize - Jesse Owens
When You Dread Failure - A.J.Cronin
Forgetting - Robert Lynd
Unit – II
Tree Speaks - C.Rajagopalachari
The Gift of Language - J.G.Bruton
A Glory has Departed - Jawaharlal Nehru
Unit – III
Three Questions - Leo Tolstoy
The Happy Prince - Oscar Wilde
The Tell Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe
The Truth about Pyecraft - H.G.Wells
Unit – IV
Degrees of Comparison
Direct and Indirect Speech
Unit - V
Concord
Prepositions
Allocations of Working Hours per week
Prose - 2 Hours
Extensive Reading - 2 Hours
Grammar - 2 Hours
Total - 6 Hours
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II YEAR – III SEMESTER
COURSE CODE: 432E
COURSE III – POETRY, DRAMA AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Texts Prescribed
Fragrant Thoughts in Flowery Words – A Collection of Poems Edited by Dr.V.Nagarajan, Dr.S.Ramanathan and Dr.P.Madhan, Harrows Publications, Chennai.
English for Empowerment Vol. II – Emerald Publications, Chennai.
Active English Grammar and Composition – Macmillan
Unit – I
A Thing of Beauty - John Keats
Ozymandias - P.B.Shelly
My Grandmother’s House - Kamala Das
Unit - II
Ulysses - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Australia - A.D.Hope
Good bye Party for Miss.Pushpa.T.S. - Nissim Ezekiel
Unit – III
A Meeting in a Forest - G.B.Shaw
Bishop’s Candle Sticks - Normal Mc Kinnel
A Kind of Justice - Margaret Wood
Unit – IV
Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences
Letter Writing
Unit – V
Comprehension
Précis Writing
Allocation of Working Hours per week
Poetry - 2 Hours
Drama - 2 Hours
Grammar - 2 Hours
Total - 6 Hours
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II YEAR – IV SEMESTER
COURSE CODE: 442E
COURSE IV – SHAKESPEARE AND ENGLISH FOR COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS
Texts Prescribed
Twelfth Night – William Shakespeare
English for Competitive Examinations: by R.P.Bhatnagar & Rajul Bhargava, Macmillan, India.
Unit – I
William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night
Unit – II
Errors and How to Avoid Them
Spotting Errors
Unit – III
Sentence Completion
Reconstructing Passages
Unit – IV
Spellings
Vocabulary
Idiomatic Expressions
Unit – V Composition
Paragraph Writing (Proverbs Expansion)
Essay Writing
Report Writing
Allocation of Working Hours per week
Shakespeare - 3 Hours
English for Competitive Exams - 3 Hours
Total - 6 Hours
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