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II Year, III Semester English Syllabus

 

 Unit I

 

Poetry                          : O Captain! My Captain – Walt Whitman

Prose                            : Mallika Srinivasan

Pronunciation              : Monophthongs

Vocabulary                  : Onomatopoeic Words

Grammar                     : Punctuation

Additional Reading     : Jadav Payeng

Speaking                     : Role Play

Writing                       : Note-taking, Naote-making

 

Unit II

 

Poetry                          : The Solitary reaper – William

                                       Wordsworth        

Prose                            : How to live to be 2 – Stephen Leacock

Pronunciation              : Diphthongs

Vocabulary                  : Word origin

Grammar                     : Subject – verb Agreement

Additional Reading     : Organic Farming Gets a bad Rap : Why it

                                      Shouldn’t :  Raymond Auerbach.

Speaking                     : Monologues

Writing                       : Paragraph Expansion

   

Unit III

 

Poetry                          : la Belle Dame Sans Merci – John Keats

Prose                            : Ilyas – Leo Tolstoy

Pronunciation              : Consonant Sounds

Vocabulary                  : Clichés

Grammar                     : Prepositional Phrases

Additional Reading     : Five space exploration Missions to look

                                      Out for in 2023 – Gareth Dorrain  and

                                      Ian Whittaker

Speaking                     : Story Narration

Writing                       : Notices & Circulars

 

 

 

 

 

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