DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
KAKATIYA UNIVERSITY
SYLLABUS FOR GENERAL ENGLISH AT UNDER-GRADUATE LEVEL
UNDER CBCS FROM (2016-17)
LESSON ONE (SHORT
FICTION)
TEXT
OLD MAN AT THE BRIDGE by
Ernest Hemmingway
PRONUNICIATION
GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY
SPELLING
CONSONANTAL SOUNDS
ARTICLES
SYNONYMS
PICK OUT THE WRONGLY-SPELT
WORDS
ICE-BREAKING
RUDRAMA DEVI
SELF-AWARENESS
INDIA AND DEMOCRACY by Dr.
B.R. AMBEDKAR
VOWEL SOUNDS: MONOPHTHONGS
PREPOSITIONS
ANTONYMS
USE OF ‘UN’ OR ‘DIS’
INTRODUCING
MEDARAM JATARA
EMPATHY
THE SCRIBE
by WALTER DE LA MARE
VOWEL SOUNDS: DIPHTHONGS
TENSES
HOMOPHONES & HOMONYMS
USE OF ‘TION’ OR ‘SION’
DESCRIBING
A
PERSON/PLACE/EVENT
KALOJI
CRITICAL THINKING & CREATIVE
THINKING SKILLS
THE NEVER-NEVER NEST by
CEDRIC MOUNT
PLOSIVES
FRAMING QUESTIONS
ONE-WORD SUBSTITUTES
USE OF ‘MENT’
GIVING DIRECTIONS
KUNTALA WATERFALL
DECISION-MAKING SKILL
LESSON TWO (PROSE)
CONVERSATIONS
READING PASSAGE
LIFE SKILLS
TEXT
LESSON THREE (POETRY)
PRONUNICIATION
GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY
SPELLING
CONVERSATIONS
READING PASSAGE
LIFE SKILLS
TEXT
PRONUNICIATION
GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY
SPELLING
CONVERSATIONS
READING PASSAGE
LIFE SKILLS
LESSON FOUR (DRAMA)
TEXT
PRONUNICIATION
GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY
SPELLING
CONVERSATIONS
READING PASSAGE
LIFE SKILLS
Semester II
LESSON FIVE (SHORT FICTION)
TEXT
LESSON SIX (PROSE)
PRONUNICIATION
GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY
SPELLING
CONVERSATIONS
READING PASSAGE
LIFE SKILLS
TEXT
LESSON SEVEN (POETRY)
PRONUNICIATION
GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY
SPELLING
CONVERSATIONS
READING PASSAGE
LIFE SKILLS
TEXT
PRONUNICIATION
GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY
SPELLING
CONVERSATIONS
LESSON EIGHT (DRAMA)
READING PASSAGE
LIFE SKILLS
TEXT
PRONUNICIATION
GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY
SPELLING
CONVERSATIONS
READING PASSAGE
LIFE SKILLS
THE RELUCTANT PHILANTHROPIST by
GOLLAPUDI SRINIVASA RAO
FRICATIVES
DISCOURSE MARKERS
IDIOMS & PHRASES
USE OF ‘IE’ AND ‘EI’
SEEKING INFORMATION
BATHUKAMMA
PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILL
ON READING BOOKS
BY VIRGINIA WOOLF
AFFRICATES & NASALS
VOICE & DEGREES OF COMPARISON
PHRASAL VERBS
USE OF ‘ABLE’ & ‘IBLE’
ORGANIZING A MEETING/INVITING GUESTS
RAMAPPA
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION SKILL
AFTER BLENHEIM by ROBERT SOUTHEY
LATERALS, SEMI-VOWELS
REPORTING SPEECH & QUESTION TAGS
LEXIS/WORD-BUILDING
USE OF PREFIXES & SUFFIXES
ORGANIZING A MEETING/PROPOSING A
VOTE OF THANKS
BONALU
INTER-PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
THE INFORMER by BERTOLT BRECHT
SYLLABIC STRUCTURE
COMMON ERRORS
COLLOCATIONS
KINNERASANI
COPING WITH STRESS AND EMOTIONS