UG II YR- FC

UG II Year (BA / BSc / BCom / BHSc / BBA) Foundation Course (English)
Session 2026–27
Course Title: English Language
Course Type: AEC-4 (Ability Enhancement Course)
Credit Value: 02
Total Marks: Max Marks – 100; Min. passing Marks – 35; Exam Duration - 02 Hours
Content of the Course:
Unit I: Text Interpretation Skills
(i) The Homecoming – R. N. Tagore
(ii) Bangle Sellers – Sarojini Naidu
(iii) Patriotism Beyond Politics and Religion – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
(iv) Letter to God – G. L. Fuentes (Translated by Donald Yates)
(v) God Sees the Truth but Waits – Leo Tolstoy
Keywords: Bridal imagery, Politics, Religion, Patriotism, Truth, urban struggle.
Activities:
(a) Poetry Recitation and Performance: Students can individually or in pairs practice and present an expressive recitation of 'Bangle Sellers', focusing on rhythm, tone, and vocal modulation (e.g., 'rainbow-tinted circles of light' of the bangles).
(b) Imagery & Nature Interpretation: They can explain their interpretation of the imagery. Students can be asked to bring out the beautiful scene in nature they have encountered, using strong sensory details and vocabulary related to the poem.
(c) Descriptive Advertisement: Bangle Sellers – write a descriptive advertisement for the bangles, highlighting what each colour signifies (e.g., 'shining', 'bridal').
Unit II: Grammar
(a) Active - Passive Voice
(b) Direct - Indirect Narration
(c) Transformation of Sentences
Keywords: Narrations, Active Passive, affirmative, negative, interrogative sentences.
Activities:
(a) Divide the class into small groups and ask them to transform sentences.
(b) Prepare them for competitive exams by giving objective-type questions.
(c) Ask them to make a handbook of various forms of verbs and helping verbs according to tense, person, and numbers.
Unit III: Comprehension Skills – Reading
(a) Unseen passages
(b) Multiple-choice questions based on unseen passages
Keywords: Understanding, quick analysis.
Activities (Focusing on reading speed, accuracy, and critical analysis):
(a) Timed Reading Challenge: Present students with a short, unseen passage and instruct them to read it only once. Immediately after, give them a set of multiple-choice questions (MCQs) to answer within a strict time limit (e.g., 5–7 minutes).
Unit IV: Basic Language Skills
(a) Use of idioms, phrases, and punctuations
(b) Misspelt words
(c) Re-organising jumbled sentences
Keywords: Idioms, phrases, jumbling words.
Activities:
(a) Idioms and Phrases in Context (Speaking/Writing): Divide the class into teams and conduct an 'Idiom Charades' or 'Pictionary' competition. One student acts out or draws an idiom/phrase, and their team guesses it. Students will use the guessed idioms/phrases to construct short, relevant dialogues or a paragraph, focusing on using them naturally and correctly in context.
(b) Punctuation and Rewriting: Provide students with several short paragraphs that are deliberately missing all or most punctuation (commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, full stops) to correct and rewrite.
(c) Jumbled Sentence Relay (Team Activity): Give students jumbled words and ask them to write grammatically correct sentences.
Unit V: Writing Skills
(a) Notice Writing
(b) Advertisement
(c) Expansion of an Idea
Activities:
(a) Focus on different registers used in advertisements.
(b) Give different areas of advertisement to students and ask them to highlight the product quality.
(c) Practice how to organize thoughts and make a coherent paragraph.

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