SEMESTER III

SEMESTER: III CREDIT: 3

PART: II English 22UENGL32 - English Through Literature 1 HOURS: 5/W

Course Objectives:
1. To enable the students, learn the art of Communication through reading
Literature.
2. To make students acquire Basic English Skills.
3. To enable the students, understand and appreciate the beauty of life through
Literature.

Unit I-Poetry
1. William Shakespeare : Time and Love
2. William Blake : Auguries of Innocence
3. Grammar : Phrases and Clauses

Unit II-Prose
1. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam : My Visions for India
2. Robert Lynd : Forgetting
3. Grammar : Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences.

Unit III-Short Story

1. O’ Henry : The Purple Dress
2. Oscar Wilde : The Happy Prince
3. Grammar : Transformation of Sentences

Unit IV- One-Act Play

1. Anton Chekhov : The Bear
2. W.W.Jacob : The Monkey’s Paw
3. Grammar : Sequence of Tenses and Reported Speech

Unit V-Communication Skills

1. Greeting Introducing
2. Expressing Gratitude
3. Offering Help and Asking for Help
4. Congratulating over Telephone
5. Note-making
6. E-mail Writing
7. Resume Writing
 8. Preparing Brochure/Advertisement

Course Outcomes:
1. Obtain competency in communication, both in written and oral skills
2. Acquire fluency in English language
3. Become knowledgeable about construction of sentence structures
4. Develop English vocabulary to use the English language effectively
5. Exhibit proficiency in the four communication skills

Text Books:
1. P.K.Mohanty: An Anthology of Short Stories: Chand & Company.
2. Pillai, Radhakrishna. G, Rajeevan. K, Bhaskaran Nair. P. Written English For You.
Madra: Emerald Publishers, 1995. Print.
3. Text Book: Expressions-III (Anu Chitra Publications), Prescribed Communication
Skills found in this Book.
 SEMESTER IV

SEMESTER: IV 22UENGL42: English Through Literature II CREDIT: 3

PART: II HOURS: 5/W

Course Objectives:
1. Enable the learner to communicate effectively and appropriately in real life situations.
2. Develop and integrate the use of the four language skills Listening, Speaking,
Reading and Writing.
3. Grasp meanings of words and sentences.
4. Revise and reinforce sentence structure already learnt.
5. Enable the students to widen their vocabulary.

Unit-I
1. Wilfred Owen : Insensibility
2. Robert frost : Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
3. Grammar : Affirmative sentences

Unit-II
1. Gorge Orwell : Shooting Of an Elephant
2. Nirad C Chaudhuri : The Eternal Silence of these Infinite Crowds
3. Grammar : Negative Sentences

Unit-III
1. Somerset Maugham : The Verger
2. Frank R Stocktol : Lady or the Tiger
3. Grammar : Question Tags

Unit-IV
1. W H Andrews : The Referee
2. Cedric Mount : The Never Never Nest
3. Grammar : Spotting Errors

Unit-V
1. Inviting someone
2. Making and accepting a request
3. Asking for help and offering help
4. Asking for advice
5. Expressing gratitude
6. Congratulating someone
Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
1. Identify and understand phrase and sentence groups.
2. Grasp meaning of words and sentences.
3. Develop correct reading habits.
4. Put ideas in proper sequence.
5. Write descriptions of people, places and things and respond imaginatively to textual
questions.

Text Books:
1. Wordsworth poetry library. The poems of Wilfred Owen 2013.
2. Frost, Robert. Poems of Robert Frost coyote canyon press, 2009.
3. Maugham W, Somerset. The great novels and short stories of Somerset
Maugham. Skyhorse publications,2014
4. Stocktol, R Frank. The lady or the tiger? And other stories by Frank R Stocktol
5. Swan, Michael. Practical English usage: oxford university press, 2016.