Compulsory English II

The Course of Compulsory English-II is common for BA and BCom Second year students.

The contents of the course are:

UNIT-I Essays i. ―The Power of Prayer by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam ii. ―Vivekananda: The Great Journey to the West by Romain Rolland iii. ―More Than 100 Million Women are Missing by Amartya Sen iv. ―On the Ignorance of the Learned (Excerpts by William Hazlitt) v. ―Simply Living (Excerpts by Ruskin Bond)  vi. “Towards Creating a Poverty-Free World by Muhammad Yunus   vii. “Climatic Change and Human Strategy by E.K. Federov. 

UNIT-II Poetry. i. ―A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ii ―Animals by Walt Whitman iii ―When I am Dead My Dearest by Christina Rossetti iv. ―If by Rudyard Kipling v. ―The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B. Yeats vi. ―The Olive Tree by Mark O' Conner vii. ―Refugee Mother and Child by Chinua Achebe 

Grammar: 1. One Word Substitution (5 Expressions) 2. Words Used as Nouns and Verbs (5 words) (Students will be required to use the given words in sentences both as nouns and verbs)  3. Transformation (i) Interchange of Degree (5 Sentences in all) 4. Homonyms, Homographs and Homophones (5 words) (Students will be required to use the given words in sentences so as to illustrate their meaning).