FOR SECOND YEAR B.A/B.COM /EXTERNAL(YEARLY) FOR THE ACADEMIC YEARS -2022-23 TO 2024-25.
LANGUAGE THROUGH LITERATURE (LTL)
Text – Confluence ( Cambridge)
Course Code Course Title Core Compulsory Course in English ( Language Through Literature – YEARLY)
Last Review / Revision June 2022
Purpose of Course To enhance the communication skills of the students and to equip them with human values , language skills and knowledge.
Course Objective To cultivate writing skills and communication skills in English
through the medium of English literature .
Course Outcomes CO1: Students will be able to learn language and grammar skills through the medium of English literature.
CO2 : Students will be able utilize and implement
communication skills in their day to day tasks and at the future workplace.
CO3: students will get acquainted with human experiences and
issues and how to cope up with the same.
Pre-requisite Basic Knowledge of English
Course Outcome After studying the course, students will be able to learn the function of language components with an improved critical, analytical and communication skills.
Page 4 of 9 Main Reading CONFLUENCE ( Cambridge) by K.N.Shoba
Unit : 1: Poetry 1 - Leisure – W.H. Davies 2 - The Secret of the Machines – Rudyard Kipling 3- Very Indian Poem in Indian English- Nissim Ezekiel 4- Water – Ralph Waldo Emerson 5-Casey at the Bat –Earnest L. Thayer
Unit: 2: Fiction and Non- Fiction
1- Humanities vs Sciences - S. Radhakrishnan 2 - The Boy Who Broke the Bank – Ruskin Bond 3- The Squirrel – Ambai 4 -On the Rule of the Road - A.G.Gardiner 5- Witches’ Loaves – O. Henry 6-Facebook is Making Us Miserable- Daniel Gulati 7- Portion Size is Trick – Ranjani Raman
Unit :3 : Composition and Communication skills
(Unit numbers as allotted in the textbook are mentioned into each bracket.) 1. Converting a story into a play/ dialogues.(Unit-3.3) *An abstract from the prescribed story along with exercise given in the textbook shall be utilized for this skill. 2. Filling Form, Letter Writing. ( Unit- 3.4) 3. Resumes, Cover letters, Format of a cover letter. ( Unit-4.3) 4. Writing blogs, Creating vlogs. ( Unit -4.1) 5. A. Expressing opinions on contemporary issues (Unit-4.4) B. Argumentative Essay
Unit :4: Vocabulary and Grammar
(Unit numbers as allotted in the textbook are mentioned into each bracket.) 1. Compound words. ( Unit-2.1) 2. Commonly confused words, prefixes, suffixes and negative prefixes. ( Unit -2.2) 3. Vocabulary – Metonymy (Unit- 2.5) 4. Conversion of Sentences ( Active and passive voice) (Unit-2.1) 5. Conversion of word class (Unit -2.2) 6. Selected Literary devices (Unit-1.3) 7. Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs,Hetronyms (Unit -2.3) 8. Error identification, Types of questions: Wh- and yes/no. ( Unit – 1.3) 9. Gerunds, Participles (Unit-2.3) 10.Phrasal Verbs (Unit-2.4)
Page 5 of 9 Reference Books 1. Paul Emmerson. Business English –Handbook Advanced.India:Macmillan Publishers,2007. 2. Norman Whitby. Business Benchmark( Cambridge English). Cambridge University Press, 2014. 3. Sanjay,Kumar.,Pushp, Lata., Communication Skills Oxford Higher Education,2nd Ed. OUP,2015. 4. Kaul. Effective Business Communication, Pentice Hall:New Delhi. 5. Robinson, Netrakanil and Shintre . Communication Competence in Business English, Orient Longman: Hyderab
Distribution of Marks Que Question Type Marks
for the university no 1 Short Questions from Poetry and Prose(5/7) exams 20 2 Long / Descriptive question answer from Poetry . (1/2) 20 3 Long / Descriptive question answer from Prose . 20 (1/2) 3 A. . Write a blog /vlog on the given subject (1/2).(10)
OR Write a brief argumentative essay. (1/2) 20
B. Resume for job application with cover letter.
(1/2)(10)
4 Do as Directed. (20/24) 20 A. Six questions from vocabulary . (5/6) ( Compound words, Commonly confused words, prefixes, suffixes, negative prefix and metonymy)
B. Six questions from grammar. (5/6)
( Conversion of sentences, conversion of word class)
