General English

Semester I

Unit I Poetry
     My Grandmother’s House – Kamala Das
     Love at First Sight – Wislawa Symborska
Unit II Short Story
    Lajwanti – Rajinder Singh Bedi
    Childhood – Ismat Chugtai
    Umpiring – Moti Nandi
Unit III: Prose
    South Indian Filter Coffee with Amma – Julie Sahani
    A Scientific Religion - V Raghunathan
Unit IV: Novella
    Pedaro Peramo – Juan Rulfo
Unit V:Audio-Visual Text
    Documentary: Nero’s Guests
Grammar and Composition:
     1. Sub-verb agreement
     2. Common Errors
     3. Tenses – both active and passive
     4. Cohesive devices
     5. Paragraph and Essay Writing


Semester II

Unit I:Poetry
      Casabianca – Ayyappa Panicker
      Song of the Last Meeting – Anna Akhmatova
      The Diameter of the Bomb -Yehuda Amichai
Unit II:Short Stories
       Rat – Ashok Mitran
       Rain – Raavi Shastri
       A London Cab Horse – Anna Sewell
Unit III:Prose
      Message in a Bottle – Amitav Baviskar
      A Corpse in the Well –Shankarrao Kharat
Unit IV:Play
      Riders to the Sea – J M Synge
Unit V:Audio-Visual Text
      Movie: The Pianist
Grammar and Composition:
      1. Idioms and Phrases
      2. Prepositions and Phrasal verbs
      3. Précis Writing
      4. Letter Writing and Emails
      5. Conversational Practice.

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