University of madras [Established under the Act of Incorporation XXVII of 1857 – Madras University Act 1923]

PAPER-I

SCHEME OF EXAMINATION

SEMSTER SYSTEM:

Semester Title of Paper Hours Marks
I Paper I: Prescribed Text and Grammar-I 3 75
II Paper II: Prescribed Text and Grammar-I 3 75

SYLLABUS

FIRST YEAR

• 
  Module 1 - Parler de soi Pages 7 – 39
  

And the following related pages: Test 1, pg 166;Test 2, pg 167;Test 3, pg 168;

Autoévaluation du module 1, pg 38.

• 
  Module 2 - Echanger Pages 41 – 73
  

And the following related pages: Test 4, pg 169; Test 5, pg 170;Test 6, pg 171;

Autoévaluation du module 2, pg 72.
(The following pages are not included: pg 40 & 74)
SEMESTER-II
PAPER – I PRESCRIBED TEXT AND GRAMMAR – I
Prescribed Text book: MERIEUX, Régine, LOISEAU, Yves. Connexions - Niveau 1, Didier, Paris, 2004.

• 
  Module 3 - Agir dans l’éspace Pages 75 – 107
  

And the following related pages: Test 7, pg 172;Test 8, pg 173;Test 9, pg 174;

Autoévaluation du module 3, pg 106.

• 
  Module 4 - Se situer dans le temps Pages 109 – 141
  

And the following related pages: Test 10, pg 175;Test 11, pg 176;Test 12, pg 177;

1. 
   Comptez et écrivez les nombres en lettres 
   
2. 
   Complétez avec les articles définis 
   
3. 
   Complétez avec des adjectives féminines
   
4. 
   Complétez avec les verbes à la forme qui convient 
   
5. 
   Complétez avec des adjectives possessifs 
   
6. 
   Ecrivez les verbes entre parenthèses au présent
   
7. 
   Complétez avec les verbes indiqués au futur proche
   
8. 
   Regardez les pendules et écrivez l’heure en lettres 
   
9. 
   Remplacez les mots soulignés par lui, elle, eux ou elles
   
10. 
    Transformez les phrases
    
11. 
    Complétez les phrases avec le, la, l’, les, du, de l’ ou de la
    
12. 
    Ecrivez des phrases à la forme négative
    

1. 
   Répondez aux questions suivantes : (5x1=5)
   

1. 
   Qu’est-ce que c’est un TGV.
   
2. 
   Nommez deux chaînes de télévision française ?
   
3. 
   Nommez deux fêtes françaises ?
   
4. 
   Quels sont les plats préférés des Anglais quand ils ne sont pas chez eux ?
   
5. 
   Relevez deux loisirs des jeunes Français.
   
1. 
   Chassez l’intrus (5x1=5)
   
2. 
   Choisissez la meilleure réponse (5x1=5)
   
3. 
   Faites des phrases avec les expressions tirées du manuel prescrit . (5x1=5)
   

1. 
   Ecrivez une carte postale à votre ami en décrivant vos vacances de Noël /une fête nationale ou religieuse / un repas que vous avez aimé/ votre appartement
   
2. 
   Complétez le dialogue ( tiré du texte)
   
3. 
   Remettez le dialogue dans l’ordre ( tiré du texte)
   
4. 
   Lisez le passage ( tiré d’un autre manuel destiné aux débutants -Niveau 1) et répondez aux cinq questions qui s’en suivent.
   

1. 
   Ecrivez des verbes soulignés à l’impératif
   
2. 
   Trouvez une autre façon d’exprimer chaque phrase
   
3. 
   Complétez avec qui, que, où
   
4. 
   Mettez les phrases au passé
   
5. 
   Remplacez l’élément souligné par un pronom
   
6. 
   Rétablissez ces phrases familières en français standard
   
7. 
   Transformez les questions (Est-ce que -> l’inversion)
   
8. 
   Mettez les verbes entre parenthèse au passé composé
   
9. 
   Remplacez les mots soulignés par leur contraire
   
10. 
    Mettez les verbes entre parenthèse au futur simple
    
11. 
    Mettez les verbes entre parenthèse au subjonctif
    
12. 
    Complétez les phrases avec des indicateurs de temps
    

1. 
   Nommez deux jeux préférés des Français.
   
2. 
   Pourquoi faut-il trier les déchets ?
   
3. 
   Que veut dire BD ?
   
4. 
   Nommez deux pays francophones à part la France  ?
   
5. 
   Quelle invention française est –elle aujourd’hui complètement dépassée par l’internet ?
   

3. 
   Choisissez la meilleure réponse (5x1=5)
   
4. 
   Faites des phrases avec les expressions tirées du manuel prescrit. (5x1=5)
   

1. 
   Ecrivez une carte postale à votre ami en décrivant vos vacances de Noël /une fête nationale ou religieuse / un repas que vous avez aimé/ votre appartement
   
2. 
   Complétez le dialogue (tiré du texte)
   
3. 
   Remettez le dialogue dans l’ordre (tiré du texte)
   
4. 
   Lisez le passage (tiré d’un autre manuel destiné aux débutants -Niveau 1) et répondez aux cinq questions qui s’en suivent.
   

(Common to all U.G Degree Courses and P.G Five Year Integrated Courses)

CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM

(Effective from the academic year 2008 -2009)

1. 
   Antony Robbins – Living Excellence
   
2. 
   David J. Schwartz – Use Goals to Help You Grow
   
3. 
   Rudyard Kipling – If
   

Unit II Prose : Words of Wisdom Ed; S. Subramanian (Anu Chitra)

4. 
   W. R. Inge - Spoon Feeding
   

6. M. K. Gandhi - Women not the Weaker Sex – M. K. Gandhi

7. 
   William Wordsworth - Te Tables Turned
   

7. 
   Robert Frost - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
   

Unit IV Short Stories : Spectrum of Short Stories Ed., K. V. Ragavendra

11 Somerset Maugham - A Friend in Need

12. K. A. Abbas - The Sparrows
Unit V - Functional English
Text Based : Synonyms, Antonyms, Substitution of a single word for a group of

Words, Word Classes

Verbs – Tense - Present and Past – Aspect – Infinitive, Present

Participle, Past Participle, the Auxiliaries, Concord
Comprehension (Text based)


QUESTION PATTERN
SEMESTER – I - ENGLISH I
PART –A (25 MARKS)
SECTION – I Short Answers – 50 words – Choice 5 out of 7 - Marks - 5 x 2 = 10

Question 1 & 2 - Prose

Question 3 & 4 – Poetry

Question 5 , 6 & 7 - Touchstone and Short Stories

Question 2 & 3 – Poetry

Question 4 & 5 - Touchstone

Question 6 & 7 - Short Stories

Question 3 – Poetry

Question 4 - Touchstone

Question 5 - Short Stories

Model Question Paper

First Semester – English Paper I

1. 
   Explain Inge’s reference to Lord Averbury’a ants.
   
2. 
   Why does Gandhi feel that the future is with women?
   
3. 
   How does Frost describe the forest on the snowy evening?
   
4. 
   Sum up Wordsworth’s criticism of intellect.
   
5. 
   Why is Kipling’s poem titled, ‘If’?
   
6. 
   In what context does Schwartz refer to Dave Mahoney?
   
7. 
   What motivated Rosemary Fell to take Miss. Smith home for a cup of tea?
   

8. Rewrite as directed any Ten of the following

i. The man in the white hat who --- ( walk) past the door --- (work) in our

complex

ii You ( speak) to my sister yesterday?’

No, I ---- ( not see) her for some months.

( Fill up the blanks with suitable verbs given in the brackets)

iii She did it pretty well

( Change into negative)

iv. Yes, they are French

( Frame a question for the above reply)

v. I intend to meet her next week

(Frame a question for the above reply )

vi. You didn’t respond to my invitation,

( Add a question tag)

vii. Neither money nor fame have given him happiness

(Correct the sentence if necessary)

viii I want to know why did you not attend the meeting..

(Correct the sentence if necessary)

ix How do you come to college?

( Frame an answer to the question)

x . Does she come regularly to classes?

( Frame a negative response to the above question)

xi Use Waste both as noun and verb in sentences of your own

xii. Give the synonyms of Monotonous Obliterate

9. Read the following passage and answer the questions given below

1. 
   What was the author doing while he was on his way to his school which made some good people shake their heads?
   
2. 
   Why did some good people shake their heads?
   
3. 
   How does the author describe his father and why?
   
4. 
   What was the father’s tolerant view?
   
5. 
   What is the charm of being illegal?
   

10 Why does Gandhi want to rebel when women are called the weaker sex? What is

his advice to women as to how they should fight against this libel?

11. Describe the conflict in the mind of the traveler in Stopping by the Woods and how it is

Resolved.
12. What attraction does the Lake Isle of Innisfree hold for Yeats?

13. How does Robbins show that happiness and success in life are not the result of what

we have but rather how we live?
14. What are the qualities does Kipling want a man to develop to possess the earth?
15. Why did Rahim Khan decide to avenge himself on his parents, his family and on

society and how did he execute his resolve?

16. ‘Rosemary Fell was not exactly beautiful’ – Bring out the significance of this

opening sentence of “ A Cup of Tea’.

17. What, in Inge’s view, are the damages which civilization has been causing to man?

18. 
    What are the various wrong reasons for which people read books? How does
    

18. 
    Why does Wordsworth call books ‘ barren leaves’ and why does he want books to be
    

20 Why does Schwartz establish that no one stumbles into success without a goal?

21. Bring out the calculated callousness and cruelty of Burton to his friend in need?
SEMESTER – II – Paper - II
Unit I Touchstone : Synergy of Values (Madras University Publications)

1. 
   Essential characteristics of Human Rights – H. Victor Conde
   
2. 
   A Negro Labourer in Liuverpool – David Rubadri
   
3. 
   Adams and Eves - Anand Kumar Raju
   

4. 
   Try Prayer Power – Norman Vincent Peale
   
5. 
   On Not Answering the Telephone – W. Plomer
   
6. 
   Ecology – Barry Commoner
   

Unit III Poetry : Symphony Ed., S. Devaprasad (Allied Publishers)

7. 
   Promotheus Unbound - A. D. Hope
   
8. 
   Looking for a Cousin on a Swing - A. K. Ramanujam
   
9. 
   My Grandmother’s House - Kamals Das
   

Unit IV Short Stories : Spectrum of Short Stories Ed., K. V. Ragavendra

10. 
    An Astrologer’s Day – R. K. Narayan
    
11. 
    Search for A Stranger – Gordon S. Livingstone
    
12. 
    The Model Millionaire – Oscar Wilde
    

Functional English

Words, Word Classes

Grammar : Revision of tenses, Voice, Conditional Sentences,

Infinitive and Gerund, Introductory It, There

Comprehension (unknown text)

Question 1 & 2 - Prose

Question 3 & 4 – Poetry

Question 5 , 6 & 7 - Touchstone and Short Stories

(2 questions)

(ix) Changing a word class to another – 2 – ( I question)

An unknown passage of about 100 words followed by 5 questions

Question 2 & 3 – Poetry

Question 4 & 5 - Touchstone

Question 6 & 7 - Short Stories

Question 3 – Poetry

Question 4 - Touchstone

Question 5 - Short Stories

Model Question Paper

Second Semester – English Paper II
Time 3 Hrs Max 75 Marks

PART –A (25 MARKS)
SECTION – I (5 x 2 = 10 Marks)
Answer Five of the following each in about 50 words

1. 
   Account for Plomer’s dislike for typewriters.
   

3. Why is Promotheus described as a ‘ Friend of Man’ ?

4. What does the girl in Ramanujam’s poem try “to be innocent about it”?

5. How did Surekha handle Bimmy and his group?

6. Why did Colonel Merton not approve of Hughie as his son – in – law ?

7. How did the astrologer endear himself to the hearts of his clients?

7. Rewrite as directed any Ten of the following

i. We would have won the match if the rain ----( play) the spoil sport.

(Fill up the blank with suitable form of the verb given in the brackets)

ii It was so hot -------

(Complete the sentence with a subordinate clause)

iii. On my pressing the button the lift came to a stop

(Change the phrase ‘On my pressing the button’ into a main clause)

iv. Poverty drove him to desperation.

(Change the voice)

v. My mood was noticed by others with sympathy

(Change the voice)

vi. W hat ---- (do) about this?

(Complete using passive voice - present perfect tense of the verb given)

vii. We are not certain when the results will be announced.

( Rewrite the sentence with an introductory It)

viii Having failed in my practicals, the examiner asked me to try again.

(Correct the sentence if necessary)

( Complete the sentence using a particle)

x Give one word equivalent for

Not fit to live in , To make an open declaration

xi. Give the synonyms of Listless, Asphyxiated
xii. Change the following into nouns.

Humble, Practise

8. 
   Read the following passage and answer the questions given below
   

One Indian virtue that has impressed me greatly and touched me deeply is the Indian people’s freedom from rancour. When you the people of India , find yourselves forced to struggle with other people – there are situations in which this cannot be avoided – you manage, so it seems to me, to do this without letting yourselves fall into adversaries. A recent example is the spirit in which you conducted your successful struggle with my country for your country’s independence. And when one struggle is over you certainly do not brood over the past or nurse grievances

1. 
   To which country does the speaker belong? How do you know?
   
2. 
   How did the Indian people’s freedom from rancour impact the speaker?
   
3. 
   What does ‘freedom from rancour ’ mean?
   
4. 
   Is the speaker critical of India’s struggle with other people? How do you know?
   
5. 
   What is special about Indian way of struggle?
   

10 . How does Peale bring out the effectiveness of prayer power?

11. How does Hope re- create the myth of Promotheus and to what end?

12. How does Kamal Das contrast her past with the present?

13. What do you understand from Uncle T’s discussion to be the various reasons for the

prevalence of eve- teasing?

14. How does Rubadri present the loneliness and hopelessness of the Liverpool labourer?

15. Outline the role of Alan Trevor.

16. How did the astrologer escape the wrath of Guru Nayak?
PART – C (3 x 10 = 30 MARKS)

Answer four of the following each in about 250 words, choosing two from each section

17. Why does Barry Commoner caution us against reckless scientific enterprises in the name of

expansion of technology?

18. How does Plomer defend his dislike for telephone? Is his dislike absolute?

19. Critically examine, ‘ Looking for a Cousin on a Swing’.

20 What are the distinctive characteristics of human rights and explain the various

functional principles necessary to implement human rights in a non –political way?
21. Describe Livingstone’s search for a stranger and how it ends.

SYLLABUS

01. B. A. DEGREE COURSE IN APPLIED SANSKRIT

I Semester - Core Major Paper I Introduction to Sanskrit Literature I

(4 credits)

Unit I Introduction to Sanskrit (not for exams)

Unit II The four Vedas

Unit III Brahmanas

Unit IV Upanisads

Unit V Sutra Literature

Unit I Basic Samskrit

Unit II Epics

Unit III Puranas

Unit IV Mahakavyas

Unit V Khandakavyas

Unit I Definition of Ayurveda

Unit II Objects of Ayurveda

Unit III Parts of Ayurveda

Unit IV Panchabhutas and their specific qualities
II Semester - Core Major Paper III Poetry -I (4 credits)

Prescribed text : (Kumarasambavam) 5^th Canto

Unit I Introduction to the Kavya

Unit II Verses 1 to 30

Unit III Verses 31 to 60

Unit IV Verses 61 to the end.

Core Major Paper IV- Prose –I (4 credits)

Prescribed text : Panchatantra (Mitralabha)

Unit I Story - I

Unit II Story - II

Unit III Story - III

Unit IV Story - IV

Unit V Story - V

Unit VI Story - VI

Core Allied I Paper –II

-Introduction to Agama Literature (5 credits)

Unit I History of Agamas

Unit II Types of Agamas

Unit III Diferences between the various systems

of Agamas.

Unit IV Relevance of Agamas