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II Semester – English Syllabus

 

Unit – I

Poem: The Felling of a Bunyan Tree – Dilip Chitre

Prose: The Bet – Anton Chekhov

Vocabulary: Oxymoron and Hyperbole

Grammar: Main Verb and Tenses

Paragraph Writing Essentials

Decision Making

 

Unit – II

Poem: a walk by Moonlight – Henry Derozio

Prose: How the Carona Vurus sparked a wave of innovation in India – Sreevas Sahasranamam

Vocabulary: Loan Words

Grammar: Auxiliary Verbs

Sequencing

Holistic Health

 

Unit – III

Poem: A different History

Prose: Nobel Lecture, 7 December 1993(extract) – Toni Morrison

Vocabulary: portmanteau words

Grammar: Non Finite Words

Descriptive Words

Conflict Resolution

 

Unit – IV

 Poem: Lady Macbeth speech from Macbeth Act 1, Scene 5 – William Shakespeare

Prose: How I became a Public Speaker (Abridge) – George Bernard Shaw

Vocabulary: Simile and Metaphor

Grammar: Adverbs

Argumentative Writing

Ethical Behaviour

 

 

 

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