Paavai English Guide for Degree Examination

Paavai Guide for B.A., B. Sc., Degree Examination Fourth Semester Part II English 

Periyar University Foundation English CBCS Pattern With Explanation in Tamil

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PERIYAR UNIVERSITY

PART – II FOUNDATION ENGLISH

SYLLABUS

CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM

For

THE STUDENTS ADMITTED FROM THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2017 – 2018

ONWARDS

SECOND YEAR

SEMESTER-4

ENGLISH PAPER IV

UNIT-I PROSE

At School - M.K. Gandhi

A Work of Art - Anton Chekhov

Dusk – H.H. Munro (Saki)

Studying Climate Change - David Adam

UNIT-II POETRY

Night of the Scorpion - Nissim Ezekiel

Tyger - William Blake

My Grandmother’s House - Kamala Das

Snake - D.H. Lawrence

UNIT-III- SCENES FROM SHAKESPEARE

Twelfth Night –Act II Sc V Lines - 1-191

Julius Caesar -Act-III Sc-II Lines -44-280

UNIT-IV

GRAMMAR

Parts of Speech –Adverb, Conjunction, Interjection (Error Finding), Indirect speech

COMPOSITION

Advertisement, Report Writing, E-mail

UNIT-V COMMUNICATION

Different Types of Requesting, Interview

Prescribed Book: Panorama, Trinity Publishers, Chennai

MODEL QUESTION PAPER

II/ B.A. / B.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION

FOURTH SEMESTER

FOUNDATION ENGLISH PAPER-IV [From the academic year 2017 – 2018 onwards]

MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Time: Three hours                                                                             Maximum: 75 marks

SECTION A- (10X2=20 marks)

1. Unscramble the following words                                                   4 x ½ =2

            a) PENEXSVEI         

            b) SETNARE 

            c) DETAGITIM         

            d) SENMOISIS         

2. Fill up the blanks using the words given below                            4 x ½=2

The figures were smiling _______and altogether looked as though, had it not been for the necessity of supporting the________, they would have _______off the pedestal and have indulged in an orgy such as is _________for the reader even to imagine.

(skipped, improper, candlestick, coquettishly)

3. Choose the correct meaning of the highlighted phrases given below  

                                                                                                                   4 x ½=2

a) I was not regarded as a dunce at the High School

i) Not regarded as a Dull - witted, Stupid ii) Humorless iii) Intelligent iv) Stupid

b) No please do not refuse,” Sasha went on muttering as he unpacked the parcel.

i) Stop ii) continue iii) cease iv) quit

c) When I got there I found it had been pulled down some weeks ago and a cinema theatre run up on the site.

i) Demolished ii) Constructed iii) Shifted iv) moved

d) Due to the global warming scenario 20-40% of the Amazon may die off within 100 years.

(i) A sudden decline in natural population (ii) A sudden rise in temperature

(iii)A gradual destruction of trees (iv) none of the above

4. Give the meaning of following confusables                                       4 x ½=2

a)

i. Carat

ii. Carrot

b)

 i. Bear

ii. Bare

5. Answer the following Riddles                                                                2 x 1=2

a) Which letter of the alphabet has the most water?

b) What is Always coming but never arrives?

Choose the right answer:                                                                       10 x 1=10

6. a) “Gandhiji could never learn the art of ___________.”

(i) Copying (ii) Writing (iii) Talking (iv) Joking

b) The character Shashkin is a ______.

(i) lawyer (ii) doctor (iii) magician (iv) comedian

7. a) Gortsby was sitting on the park bench_________

(i) searching for his purse (ii) thinking about man‟s life (iii) waiting for a friend (iv)eating bread

b) Current level of Global warming is linked to .................

(i) Rainwater (ii) deserts (iii) fields (d) rockfalls in mountain region

8. a) _________ came in immediately after hearing about the incident

(i)The relatives ( ii) The snake (iii) The villagers)iv) The pet animals

b) The blacksmith is compared to the ______

(i) creator (ii) novelist (iii) poet (iv) mechanic

9. a) “an armful darkness means”_______

(i) old memories of the grandmother‟s house (ii) unhappy days

 (iii) some dark objects from the house (iv) wild snakes

b)_______ is described as a king in exile

(i)the monkey (ii) the poet (iii) the snake  (iv) the scorpion

10. a) The beloved‟s identity is represented by the letters _________

(i) M O U (ii) M O L (iii) M O A I     (iv) M O U L

b) “ Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more ______

(i) Antony (ii) Brutus (iii) Julius Caesar (iv) Indians

SECTION - B (5 X 5=25 marks)

11. a) Rewrite each sentence using the Adverb correctly

a) They have left for Germany.(already)

b) Let us hope we meet. (again)

c) Most Indians speak the truth. (always)

d) My mother tells a lie. (never)

e) The painting is good. (fairly)

or

b) Fill in the blanks with appropriate Conjunctions

a) “Neither a lender ................ a borrower be”.

b) Work hard ______ you should fail.

c) I gave him such advice ______ was necessary.

d) Though it was raining ................ the match was played.

e) He is rich _____ miserable.

12 a).Fill in the blanks with appropriate Interjection

a) ………!Our forces have defected an enemy. (Hello, Hurrah)

b) .........! It pains a lot. (Ouch, Hello)

c) ......... ! My grandma is no more (Oh, Alas)

d) . ........ ! You have lost the gift I had given. (Oh, What)

e) ........ ! The can has broken down again. (Alas, Oh)

or

b) Change the following sentences into Direct Speech

a) The General said that his soldiers were really brave.

b) She said that she might succeed.

c) The driver said that he had cleaned the car.

d) All said that I was telling the truth.

e) The child said that the sun rises in the east.

13. You need an assistant accountant for your office. Write the advertisement for the “Situation Vacant” column of a local daily.

14 a) You placed an order for some books but the books you received, are torn and of the old edition. Write an e- mail to the bookseller to replace your books.

or

b) Recently you visited India International Trade Fair at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. Write a report of your visit for a local newspaper in about 80 - 100 words.

15 a) Give five expressions of request

or

b) Imagine you are interviewing a popular actor. He has received a national award. What questions will you ask him?

SECTION - C (3 X 10=30)

Answer the following questions in about 200 words:

16 a) Briefly explain a few of the incidents in Gandhiji‟s life in school, which he recollected from the past.

or

b) In the Dusk does the young man really deserve to be sympathized?

17 a) How does Blake convey the feeling that it was not difficult for the creator to handle such a dreaded creature?

or

b)Describe the snake as seen by D.H. Lawrence.

18 a) Bring out the significance of Act II scene V in Twelfth Night

or

b) What justification did Brutus give for the killing of Caesar?

 MODEL QUESTION PAPER PATTERN

II/ B.A/B.Sc. DEGREE EXAMINATION

FOURTH SEMESTER

FOUNDATION ENGLISH PAPER-IV

[From the academic year 2017-2018]

MODEL QUESTION PAPER PATTERN

Time: 3 Hours            Marks: 75

           

SECTION ‘A’ 10 X 2 = 20

1. Unscramble the following words:                                                      (4 x 1/2 =2)

Questions a, b, c and d from Unit I prose only         

2. Fill up the blanks using the words given below                                (4 x 1/2 =2)

Question from Unit I prose only

3. Choose the correct meaning of the highlighted phrases given below (4 x 1/2 =2)

Questions a, b, c and d - From Unit I prose only      

4. Give the meaning of following confusables                                       (4 x 1/2 =2)

Questions a and b - From Unit I prose only  

5. Answer the following Riddles.                                                           (4 x 1/2 =2)

Questions a and b - From Unit I prose only  

Choose the right answer:                                                                       (10 x 1=10)

6. (i) Question from Unit I prose-I

(ii) Question from Unit I prose-II

7. (i) Question from Unit I prose-III

(ii) Question from Unit I prose-IV

8. (i) Question from Unit II Poem-I

(ii) Question from Unit II Poem-II                

9. (i) Question from Unit II Poem-III                       

(ii) Question from Unit II Poem-IV              

10. (i) Question from Unit III -Twelfth Night -I                   

(ii) Question from Unit III –Julius Caesar -II            

SECTION ‘B’ (5 x 5=25)

Answer the following questions                  

11. a) Rewrite each sentence using the Adverb correctly:     

From Unit IV Grammar                                                                         (5 x 1= 5) 

or

b) Fill in the blanks with appropriate Conjunctions

From Unit IV Grammar

12. (a) Fill in the blanks with appropriate Interjection.          

From Unit IV Grammar                                                                         (5 x 1= 5)

or

(b) ) Change the following sentences into the Direct Speech

From Unit IV Grammar

13. Advertisement From Unit IV Composition                                     (1 x 5=5)

14. a) Report Writing Question From Unit IV Composition                 (1 x 5=5)

or

b) E-Mail Question  From Unit IV Composition       

15. a) Expressions of request  From Unit V Communication               (1 x 5=5 )

or

b) Interview- dialogue From Unit V Communication

SECTION C  (3 x 10=30 Marks)

III. Answer the following questions in about 200 words.

Questions 16.a) or b) - From Unit I

Questions 17.a) or b) - From Unit II

Questions18.a) or b) - From Unit III

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Here are some things to consider when you wonder whether or not to save e-mail, particularly in light of the federal Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which imposes more requirements on mostly public companies to preserve records. Obviously, if you still have questions, talk to a lawyer.

Save important records. But e-mail is not always considered a record. Companies should save records of business transactions. If you sign a contract, save that contract. If you receive the contract as an attachment to an e-mail, and the other party says in the e-mail, "We accept the contract," save the e-mail too. That constitutes a record.

So if you would keep it as a paper document, keep the e-mail. Otherwise, pitch it. That includes e-mails generated during the contract process. This is work-in-progress material, and does not reflect the thinking of an organization. Rather, they are the thoughts of individuals.

When you do keep something, store it formally. Don't leave it in your e-mail program where no one can find it. You might be best off to print it and put it in a folder.

Sometimes, keep more. There are certain times in which you cannot discard things. For instance, if you are part of a legal process, you can't delete anything that is relevant. I`d err on the side of caution. Better yet, follow your lawyer's advice.

Even if you are not currently in a legal process, there are two other important words: imminent and foreseeable. If you're on notice that you'll be indicted, things are imminent. Now is not a good time to clean out your e-mails. If you make a big boo-boo and somebody gets hurt, a lawsuit is foreseeable. Again, be careful. Talk to your lawyer. According to Skupsky, only the securities industry is required to keep all of its e-mails. But the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has added considerably to the record-keeping burden of some companies — mostly public companies or companies who do business with public companies. (For more on Sarbanes-Oxley`s effect on private companies, see this article.

Again, if you think you may be affected by Sarbanes-Oxley, see your lawyer. But don`t keep everything. Most likely, those e-mails piling up probably won`t hurt anything (except your server space). Most of us get into business because we see an unanswered need. We want to help our customers. We`ve never been sued, and never expect to be.

However, it could very well happen. Let's say that, after exercising superhuman patience, you fire Joe Screw-up. You could not have treated Screw-up better, but, of course, he doesn't see it that way. So Screw-up sues.

You're not worried. But then you get a subpoena, ordering you to submit any e-mail from the past three years that bears on the case. There`s nothing in the e-mail that would affect the case, and Screw-up knows it. But you'll have to dig up everything you have, and your lawyer will go through it, looking for relevant material. How many hours, at $200 per hour, will it take her to do that? So you swallow hard and give Screw-up $15,000 to go away. You may never have thought about this, but you can bet that the plaintiffs` bar has. Worse, maybe they find an e-mail in which you express intemperate remarks. The e-mail was probably meaningless, but Screw-up’s attorney will make you look like Adolf Hitler.

Given the potential problems, why save e-mail? Sure, this scenario is pretty unlikely. But 99.9% of your old e-mail is junk, anyway. Why take the risk?

Develop a policy on e-mail retention. Skupsky recommends a personal 30-day deadline for taking action. After 30 days, your employees (and you) have to decide if an e-mail is a record. If not, it goes. This has the salutary effect of forcing your employees to think about what a record is, and is not. Attorney Chuck Fine thinks that's a good idea. But he goes further, and chucks (no pun intended) his e-mail immediately.

Don't back up your e-mail. This is no different than keeping it on your computer. If you're subpoenaed, you and your lawyer will have to go through it, whether it's on the computer or on tape. Delete the old stuff.

According to Skupsky, old e-mail is rarely useful to the other side. But if it costs $50,000 to go through it, the plaintiff doesn't care. Neither does his lawyer. They have nothing to lose. Discovery is a wonderful weapon to force a settlement. So I'm cleaning out my old e-mails. No, really! It's difficult, though. I've had them so long, they're like old pals. You should clean out yours, too. We have to be strong about this.

Here are eight easily avoidable mistakes you should know about to keep your image and inbox in tip-top shape.

Failing to follow e-mail etiquette. I believe in the old adage, "You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar." There's no point in belaboring the etiquette issue. We all know we should be polite. But here are a few points to consider:

Don't write when you're angry. Wait 24 hours. Calm down. Be reasonable. Have someone else edit your e-mail.

Don't use sarcasm. You may think you're clever, but the recipient will be put off.

DON'T USE ALL UPPERCASE! That's the e-mail equivalent of yelling. Your recipient won't be appreciative. Go easy on the exclamation marks, too. Overuse dulls their effectiveness. Use clear subject lines. That will help people decide whether to read the e-mail now or later. We're all busy. Your correspondent will appreciate your thoughtfulness.

Keep it short. If your e-mail is more than two paragraphs, maybe you should use the telephone.

Change the subject line if you change the topic of a thread.

Unless the recipient has previously agreed, don't forward poems, jokes, virus warnings and other things. You're just wasting valuable time and bandwidth.

Thinking you are anonymous. If you are sending nasty missives, you might think no one will be able to figure out that the e-mail came from you. After all, you set up a phony Web address. Think again. E-mail contains invisible information about the sender.

That information is in the header. All major e-mail programs can display header information. Here`s how:

In Microsoft Outlook, double click the e-mail. Then click View > Options.

In Microsoft Outlook Express, click the e-mail. Then click File > Properties and select the Details tab.

In Eudora, double click the message. Then click the Blah Blah button.

In Netscape, click the message to open it. Then click View > Message Source to display the header.

The sender's revealing information is in the sections that begin with "Received:" There may be several of these, depending on the number of computers the e-mail traversed. The originating computer is in the bottom "Received:"

That section will have an Internet Protocol (IP) number, such as 124.213.45.11. It can be traced on a number of Web sites. I use Inter NIC (www.internic.net). The number is probably assigned to the sender's Internet service provider, rather than the sender. But the ISP will be able to identify the sender using that number. Remember the header if you're tempted to send an anonymous e-mail. You may be less anonymous than you think.

Sending e-mail to the wrong person. Today's e-mail programs want to make it easy to send e-mail. This means that when you start typing the address of a recipient to whom you have previously sent mail, the "To:" field may already be populated. Be careful. Always double-check the recipient is the intended one.

In addition, if you're writing something ugly about Joe Smith, you'll have Joe`s name on your mind. Don't send it to him. I once knew an intern at a newspaper who did just that. He didn't like his supervisor and said so in graphic terms in an e-mail. Then he accidentally sent the e-mail to his supervisor. (The intern kept his position, but the atmosphere was cold, to say the least. And there was no job offer at summer's end.)

Using one e-mail address for everything. I have four different e-mail addresses: private, public, one I use for online mailing lists, and another for when I go shopping online. These addresses attract mail for those specific areas.

I can have as many as I want, because I host my own e-mail server. But if you are using an Internet service provider, you still can do this. Most providers will give you a half-dozen e-mail accounts. You can also use addresses on the Web for personal accounts. Both Hotmail and Yahoo! are good. You can reach those accounts from anywhere, assuming you have Web access.

Forgetting to check all of your e-mail accounts. Checking all these accounts can be a chore, especially from home. So I use ePrompter (www.eprompter.com), which can check 16 different password- protected accounts. Best of all, ePrompter is free. There are other programs that will do this for a fee, including Active Email Monitor (www.emailmon.com).

Clicking "Send" too fast. Reread every e-mail before you send it! I actually get e-mails from job applicants with misspellings and missing words. They all go to the same place: the garbage. This is a pet peeve. I'm not going to hire someone who is careless.

Even if you're not looking for a job, you want to be careful. People will judge you subconsciously on mistakes. None of us is perfect. But you can catch 99% of these problems by rereading the text.

And don`t depend on the spell-checker. It will catch misspellings. But if you use "four" instead of "for," or "your" for "you`re," it won`t tell you. It also is not likely to catch any missing words in a sentence that you inadvertently failed to include. So take a minute and reread your text.

Don`t look like an ignoramus.

Forgetting the attachment. This seems obvious, but I can`t tell you how many times I`ve received an e-mail with a missing attachment. Since we all do it occasionally, it shouldn`t be a huge deal.

However, if you consistently make this mistake, people (perhaps important people) may think you`re losing your marbles. They might even hesitate to do business with you in the future. When you get ready to send your e-mail, think: "What am I forgetting?"

Using your ISP`s domain and not your own. Make your company look big. If you use a Web account or an ISP`s name for your business, you`re not going to look professional. You can buy a domain name separately for $20-$30 per year from a company such as VeriSign (www.netsol.com), or as part of a package from a Web hosting and e-mail service such as that offered by Microsoft Small Business. Assuming someone else hasn`t already grabbed it, you can have your company in the domain name.

Let`s say you run The BoolaBoola Co. If you use an ISP`s address, you would have something like JoeBoolaBoola@SomeISP.com. But if you buy your own domain name, it could beJoe@TheBoolaBoolaCo.com. That`s much more likely to impress your customers.

E-mail is almost like talking. We use it so much that we don`t really think about it. But there are rules and courtesies, just as there are with talking. And there are other considerations involved in communicating by written word only.

Giving them some additional thought could make your e-mail experience more satisfying and your recipients much happier.

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