Compulsory For B.A/B.Sc/B.Com Hons.

& Program

Short stories [ Recommended text : Rainbow an anthology of short stories ed.by Ashok
Chaskar, Bharati S. Khairmar, R.S Jain Orient Black swan, 2014 edition]
1. a) After twenty years – O. Henry
b) Kabuliwalah – Rabindranath Tagore
c) The Signal Man – Charles Dickers.

2. Reporting Writing
3. C.V/ Bio-data Writing

Marks Division: Comprehensive Questions from the prescribed text : 1x5 = 05

2x5=10
5x3 =15
Reporting writing -10
C.V/ Bio – data -10

B.A/B.Sc/B.Com Program
English – I (6 credits)
Recommended Text: Macmillan college prose ed.by T.Sriraman
Essay:

 Voluntary Poverty by M.K.Gandhi

 The Civilization of today by CEM Joad
 Professions for Women by Virginia Woolf

Short Stories:
 Out of business by RK Narayan
 A Cup of Tea by Catherine Mansfield
Writing Exercises:
 Formal Letter in reply to either a letter received
or a newspaper advertisement (both to be
reproduced in the question)
 Either a Report from a dialogue between two
persons, or from points given.
Or
Summary of a newspaper report.

Marks distribution:
Three passages to be chosen from the texts of Essays and short stories and the students to
be asked to answer on
a. Comprehensive Questions : 5x2
b. Vocabulary ( inferencing meaning from multiple choice alternative, etc.) : 2x5
c. Grammar (reorganising sentence, changing grammatical categories etc.) : 2x5