The syllabus is at the bottom of this page.
Lesson 1: The Digital World
Overview : What is Social Media?
Texts: Inducting terrorists , Do's and Don't for Social Media
Discussion: Online Terrorism, How are Terrorists recruiting
Grammar Topics: Verbs:Present Tense, Auxiliaries, Modals
Comprehension:
Lesson 2: Media Ethics and Etiquette
Texts: Media ethics , Free Basics and Internet.Org
Discussion: Rules of Media, Meaningful posts
Grammar: Expressing Time: Verbs and tenses: Present Tense, Present Continuous and Present Perfect and their uses.
Comprehension/Compositions: Writing Emails and Meaningful posts.
Lesson 3: Astrology: Is there any truth in it?
Texts: An Astrologer's Day by R K Narayan
Grammar Topics: Expressing time: Verbs and Tenses: Future Tense and its uses.
Comprehension/Composition: Writing Emails (Etiquette in details) and Talking about your future.
Comprehension/Compositions: Writing a story.
Lesson 4: Endangered Species
Text: Elephant and the Cassowary by Ruskin Bond
Grammar Topics: Relative Clauses, Phrasal Verbs and Punctuation
Comprehension: Using parenthesis, writing about nature
Additional Texts:
Listen to this conversation on endangered species
Lesson 5: War and Peace
Discussion: Patriotism, Nationalism, National Hero, War and Peace
Text: The Charge of the Light Brigade by Lord Alfred Tennyson
Vocabulary: War terms in the poem , Talking about War
Grammar Topics: Agreement of the Verb with the Subject, past tense, Agreement of the Verb 2
Comprehension: Using idioms (download a list of idioms),
Lesson 7: God and Faith
Text: Pied Beauty by GM Hopkins
Lesson 6: Love Poems and Relationships
Topics: What is a love poem? How to write a love poem? How did Shakespeare write his sonnets?
Comprehension: Relationships
Text: Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
Lesson 7: Past and Present of Our Environment
Topics: Sports and environment in Colonial and present day India
Grammar: Prepositions, Prepositional Phrases
Text: Kunwar Singh from My India
Exercise padlets:
Lesson 8:
Text: The Villain by W H Davies
Lesson 9: Writing your CV
Follow these links:
How to write a CV - University of Kent
Lesson 10:
Text: Letter to My Daughter by Jawaharlal Nehru
End-semester Syllabus
Texts: The Villain, Sonnet 116, Kunwar Singh, Letter to My Daughter
Grammar: Subject-verb agreement, prepositions, verbs, articles,
Composition: emails, applications, letters, cv writing