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NorthMaharashtraUniversity,Jalgaon

Syllabus
for

F.Y.B.A.(English)
SemesterI
(w.e.f.June,2009)

SemesterII
(w.e.f.Dec.,2009)

CompulsoryEnglish,
OptionalEnglish

F.Y.B.A.COMPULSORYENGLISH
TextPrescribedEnglishforArtsIed.byBoardofEditors,NMU,Jalgaon.

FIRSTSEMESTER:
A) ShortStories
1. PoorMansWishfulDreams:SaneGuruji
2. M.K.Gandhi:BhupenMahapatra

B) Prose
1. TowardsaGreenRevolution:M.S.Swaminathan
2. Examinations:R.K.Narayan

C) Poems
1. Pride:Dr.A.P.J.AbdulKalam
2. DoverBeach:MathewArnold
3. TheSolitaryReaper:WilliamWordsworth

D) CommunicationSkills
1. NoteMakingandNoteTaking
2. LetterWriting

E) Grammar

SECONDSEMESTER:
A) ShortStories
1. DefiningLove:GouriB.Nair
2. TheOnlyAmericanfromourVillage:ArunJoshi

B) Prose
1. IndifferenceRobertLynd
2. IntroductiontoI.T.P.Shailaja
2

C) Poems
1. WhoAreYou?SundaraRamaswamy
2. PrayerBeforeBirthLouisMacniece
3. FatherReturningHomeDilipChitre

D) CommunicationSkills
1. Applications
2. InformationTransfer
3. MessagesthroughEmail

E) VocabularyExercises

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F.Y.B.A.COMPULSORYENGLISH
SemesterI(w.e.f.June2009)
TotalMarks40

TimeAllowed2hrs.

FormatoftheQuestionPaper

Que.1:

Que.2:

Que.3:

Que.4:

Que.5:

ShortStories
Attemptinabout120wordsonly.
(ONEoutofTWO)

(8)

Prose
Attemptinabout120wordsonly.
(ONEoutofTWO)

(8)

Poetry
Attemptinabout120wordsonly.
(ONEoutofTWO)

(8)

i)Letterwriting(a)or(b).

ii)NoteMakingorNoteTaking(a)or(b).

(4)
(4)

(4)

(4)

a)DoasDirected
(Partsofspeech,voice,tense,typesofsentences,
tagquestions)
b)FillintheBlanksArticles&Prepositions.

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F.Y.B.A.COMPULSORYENGLISH
SemesterII(w.e.f.December2009)

TotalMarks40

TimeAllowed2hrs.

FormatoftheQuestionPaper

Que.1:

Que.2:

Que.3:

Que.4:

Que.5:

ShortStories
Attemptinabout120wordsonly.
(ONEoutofTWO)

(8)

Prose
Attemptinabout120wordsonly.
(ONEoutofTWO)

(8)

Poetry
Attemptinabout120wordsonly.
(ONEoutofTWO)

(8)

(8)

(4)
(4)

CommunicationSkills.

a)ApplicationWriting(a)or(b)

b)InformationTransfer
(a)

OR

or
c)Messagesthroughemail (b)

VocabularyExercises
a) MakeNouns/Adverbs/Adjectives/Verbs
b) SynonymsandAntonyms

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F.Y.B.A.GENERALENGLISH(G1)
TextPrescribedPopularShortStories;OUP;2000.

FIRSTSEMESTER:
A) ShortStories

Title

1.TheWorldRenownedNose
2.TheOpenWindow

3.TheGatemansGift

4.TheApple

Writer
V.M.Bashee
H.H.Munro
R.K.Narayan
H.G.Wells

B) StudyofLiteraryTerms
Fiction and Truth, Irony, Melodrama, Plot, Point of View, Satire, Setting,
Genre,MotifandTheme,Myth,Style,Comedy,Tragedy&Narrative.

SECONDSEMESTER:

A) ShortStories

Title

Writer

1.LivingorDead?

RabindranathTagore

2.TheReapingRace

LiamOFlaherty

3.OldManattheBridge

ErnestHemingway

4.TheNecklace

GuyDeMaupassant

B) IntroductiontotheStudyofPhonologyofEnglish.Thefollowingtopicsfrom
the book Written and Spoken Communication in English by Board of
Editors,UniversityPress:

a)
b)
c)
d)

TheProductionofSound
TheSoundsofEnglish
IntroductiontoPhoneticTranscriptionofSimpleWords
SyllableandStress

TwoShortStoriesaretobedeletedfromthesyllabus

i)HowMuchLandDoesAManRequire?byLeoTolstoy
ii)MonalHuntbyManoharMalgaonkar

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F.Y.B.A.OPTIONALENGLISH(G1)
SemesterI(w.e.f.June2009)

TotalMarks40

TimeAllowed2hrs.

FormatoftheQuestionPaper

Que.1:

ShortStories.
Attemptinabout120words[01/02]

(10)

(10)

(10)

(10)

Que.2:

Que.3:

Que.4:

ShortStories.
Referbrieflytothecontextandexplaininabout
60wordseach.[02/04]

LiteraryTerms.
ExplaintheTermswithexamplesinabout
60wordseach.[02/04]

LiteraryTerms.
WriteShortNotesinabout60wordseach.[02/04]

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F.Y.B.A.OPTIONALENGLISH
SemesterII(w.e.f.December2009)

TotalMarks40

TimeAllowed2hrs.

FormatoftheQuestionPaper

Que.1:

Que.2:

ShortStories.

Attemptinabout120wordsonly.
(ONEoutofTWO)

(10)

ShortStories.
Referbrieflytothecontextandexplaininabout
60wordseach.(TWOoutofFOUR)

(10)

IntroductiontotheStudyofPhonology.
WriteShortNoteson(TWOoutofFOUR)

(10)

(06)

(04)

Que.3:

Que.4:

a)

b)

IntroductiontotheStudyofPhonology.
ObjectiveType

Phonetictranscriptionofsimplewords.
(FOURoutofEIGHT)

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ListofSubstituteSubjects

OldCourses
FYBACompulsoryEnglish

NewCourses
FYBACompulsoryEnglish
(SemesterI&SemesterII)

FYBAOptionalEnglish

FYBAOptionalEnglish
(SemesterI&SemesterII)

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