INTERMEDIATE FIRST YEAR ENGLISH SYLLABUS
PROSE
1. Thinking out of the Box: Lateral Thinking(An article on the internet)
2. Gender Bias Sudha Muthy
3. The Art of Wicket-Keeping : The Uttakh-Bhaitakh Breed Ramchandra Guha
4. Robots and People
Isaac Asimov
5. You’re on the 87th Floor, and Something’s Terribly Wrong Adam Mayblum
6. The Refund Fritz Karinthy
POETRY
1. On Friendship Kahlil Gibran
2. Television Roald Dahl
3. A Spider and A Fly Don Marquis
4. Mother’s Day Shiv K. Kumar
5. Anecdote for Fathers William Wordsworth
MOSAIC
(Non Detailed Text Book)
1. After Twenty Years O. Henry
2. The Gold Frame R. K. Laxman
3. The Story-Teller Saki
4. The Face on the Wall E.V. Lucas
5. The Nightingale and the Rose Oscar Wilde
6. Bepin Choudhury’s Lapse of Memory Satyajit Ray
GRAMMAR, STUDY SKILLS AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS
1. Parts of Speech
2 Articles
3. Subject-Verb Agreement
4. Modal Auxiliaries
5. Time and Tense
6. Active and Passive Voice
7. Direct and Indirect Speech
8. Forming Questions and Question Tags
9. Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences
10. Correction of Sentences