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ADVANCED ENGLISH
- Introducing students to phonetics in order to enable them to consult a dictionary for correct pronunciation (sounds and word stress).
- Strengthening compositional skills.
- Facilitating comprehension of prose and poetry.
Phonetics)
Transcription of Phonetic Symbols
Word Stress
Writing Skills I
CV’s and Job Applications
Precis Writing
Writing Skills II
Editing a Short Text with focus on grammar, coherence, and cohesion
Dialogue Writing (from ‘The Written Word’, OUP)
Critical Appreciation I
Analysis of a Literary Text Prose
(in terms of language, structure, theme, point of view, referential and connotative meaning)
(Jane Austen - An Excellent Father
E.V. Lucas – The School for Sympathy
Stephen Leacock – My Financial Career
O. Henry – A Gift for Christmas
Kahlil Gibran – Pity the Nation (from Language through Literature
Critical Appreciation II
Analysis of a Literary Text : Poetry (in terms of imagery, diction, rhyme, tone, symbolism, figures of speech, referential and connotative meaning)
Robert Browning – “Pippa’s Song
Siegfried Sassoon – “Everyone Sang”
John Masefield – “Beauty”
W. H. Davies – “In the Country”
Rabindranath Tagore – “Heaven of Freedom” (from Language through Literature)
- Leigh, Judith. CVs and Job Applications. Oxford UP, 2004. Print.
- Panja, Shormishtha, Sudesh Sawhney, and Promodini Varma, eds. English At The Workplace. Macmillan India Limited, 2006. Print.
- Punter, David. Metaphor. London: Routledge, 2007. Print.
- Singh, Vandana R. The Written Word. Oxford UP: New Delhi, 2006. Print.
- Waldhorn, Arthur, and Arthur Zeiger. English Made Simple. Calcutta: Rupa Co., 1981. 276. Print.
- Thaker, Praveen K. Appreciating English Poetry: A Practical Course and Anthology. Orient Longman Limited, 1999. Print.
- Waldhorn, Arthur, and Arthur Zeiger. English Made Simple. Calcutta: Rupa Co., 1981. 276. Print.