General English - III syllabus, 2nd Year, 3rd Semester, University of Madras, Syllabus with effect from 2023 onwards

  University of Madras

Syllabus with effect from 2023 onwards

General English - III

[2^nd Year, 3rd Semester]

UNIT – I : ACTIVE LISTENING

Short Story

1.1 In a Grove – Akutagawa Ryunosuke

Translated from Japanese by Takashi Kojima

1.2 The Gift of the Magi – O’ Henry

Prose

1.3 Listening – Robin Sharma

1.4 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech – Wangari Maathai

UNIT – II : INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

Prose

2.1 Telephone Conversation – Wole Soyinka

2.2 Of Friendship – Francis Bacon

Song on (Motivational/ Narrative)

2.3 Ulysses – Alfred Lord Tennyson

2.4 And Still I Rise – Maya Angelou

UNIT – III : COPING WITH STRESS

Poem

3.1 Leisure – W.H. Davies

3.2 Anxiety Monster – RhonaMcFerran

Readers Theatre

3.3 The Forty Fortunes: A Tale of Iran

3.4 Where there is a Will – Mahesh Dattani

UNIT – IV : Grammar

4.1 Phrasal Verbs & Idioms

4.2 Modals and Auxiliaries

4.3 Verb Phrases – Gerund, Participle, Infinitive

UNIT – V : Composition/ Writing Skills

5.1 Official Correspondence – Leave Letter, Letter of Application, Permission Letter

5.2 Drafting Invitations

5.3 Brochures for Programmes and Events

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