Unit – I : Prose
V.S.Srinivasa Sastri -- Mahatma Gandhi
John 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.
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