BASIC ENGLISH

I. Text: Prose
1) How Economic Growth has become Anti-Life - Vandana Shiva
2) Future of Our Past: towards a Critique of Globalization and Culture Industry – K. Satchidananadan
3) The Death of a Government Clerk – Anton Chekhov
4) Commerce – John Ruskin
5) The Man of the House - Frank O’Connor
Poetry
1) Leisure – W. H. Davis
2) Scratch – Arun Kolatkar
3) Punishment in Kindergarten – Kamala Das
4) The Felling of the Bunyan Tree – Dilip Chitre
5) On Killing a Tree – Gieve Patel

II. Grammar and Communicative Skills
A) Use of Articles
B) Use of Prepositions
C) Transformation of Sentences
a) Remove too… to/use so… that (vice versa)
b) Remove if /use unless (vice versa)
c) Remove As soon/use No sooner…than (vice versa)
d) Change the assertive sentence into exclamatory sentence without changing the meaning (vice versa)
e) Change the degrees
D) Communicative Skills
a) Introducing: Self Introduction and Introducing the chief-guest
/principal/president/family member/friend
b) Welcome address and Vote of Thanks
c) Expansion of Proverbs/Sayings
d) Dialogue Writing