BASIC ENGLISH SYLLABUS NEP

FIRST SEMESTER BASIC ENGLISH SYLLABUS

FOR B.COM/ B.B.M/ B.H.M (NEP)

UNIT I – POETRY

1. “Money Madness” by D. H. Lawrence

2. “Don’t Despise Me” by Akkmahadevi

3. “Poet, Lover and Birdwatcher” by Nissim Ezekiel

4. “Playthings” by Rabindranath Tagore.

UNIT II – SHORT STORIES

1. “A Handful of Dates” by Tayab Salih

2. “The Gambling Match” by Marjorie Sykes

3. “An Afternoon with Shakuntala” by Vaidehi

4. “The Freedom Within” by Amaresh Nugadoni

UNIT III - READING AND COMPREHENSION

1. Comprehension Passages

2. Referencing Skills and Data Interpretation

UNIT IV – TRANSLATION SKILLS

1. Translation: English to Kannada, Kannada to English.

UNIT V - GRAMMAR 11 Hours Sentence Structures

1. Be forms

2. Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

3. Finite and Infinite Verb

FIRST SEMESTER BASIC ENGLISH SYLLABUS

FOR B.A/ B.S.W (NEP)

Unit 1 POETRY

1. “15THAugust”- John Celes

2. “My People” -Siddalingaiah (A String of Pearls, ed by H. S. Shivaprakash)

3. “Darn Sun” - Gavisidda N Ballari

4. “Petromax Bearers” –Jambanna Amarachinta

Unit 2 PROSE

1. Toasted English - R. K. Narayan

2. The Relevance of Gandhi for all Times - Ravikumar

3. Stephen Hawking speaks at MIT – Education and Technology, Sept 1994. MIT Video Productions.

4. Savitribai Phule – India’s First Teacher (Pranita)

Unit 3 Reading Comprehension:

1.Reading to identify and correct the errors such as spelling, subject-verb agreement.

2.Vocabulary building: Meaning, Replacement, Prefix, suffix, make a sentence, root word

Unit 4 Dialogue Writing and speaking: pick and speak, role play, mono acting, contextual writing.

Unit 5 1.Direct and Indirect Speech (Reporting newspaper – for practice)

2. Active and Passive Voice 

BASIC ENGLISH SECOND SEMESTER SYLLABUS

FOR B.com/ B.B.M/ B.H.M (NEP)

Unit I

1 POETRY

1. “The Village Schoolmaster” -Oliver Goldsmith.

2. “Sandals and I” - Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy.

(Chappali Matthu Naanu) (Translated by Rowena Hill)

3. “I ask for Waris Shah Today” -Amrita Pritam

4. “The Child’s Faith is New” -Emily Dickinson.

Unit II

2 PROSE

1. “The Sun, the planets and the stars” - C Jones.

2. “Tolerance is a Moral Virtue” - Rivka T. Witenberg.

3. “Youth and the Tasks Ahead” - Karan Singh.

 4. “Mourning Called Caste” - Chidananda Sali.

(Jathiyenba Soothaka) (Rishikesh Bahadur Desai)

Unit III

3 READING COMPREHESION

1. Subject-Verb Agreement.

2. Reading Comprehension- To identify and correct spelling errors.

3. Reading to Improve Vocabulary building- prefixes and suffixes.

4. Vocabulary Building - Meaning, Replacement, use the word in your own Sentence, Root Word.

Unit IV

4 DIALOGUE WRITNG AND SPEAKING

1. Dialogue writing and speaking- Contextual Writing.

2. Speaking Skills-Role Play, Mono-Acting, pick and speak.

Unit V

5 DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH

Direct and Indirect Speech-Explanation and Examples. -Examples of Letters to the Editors. -Newspaper Reporting for Practice.

2 .Active and Passive Voice –Rules and Exercises-Single Sentences and Paragraphs with Blanks to fill in with Suitable Verb Forms.