Rusk Publishers Published by S.J. Desai
(1) General Descriptive Question (Any one out of three) 10 Marks
(2) Short Questions (Any five out of eight) 15 Marks
(3) Vocabulary -
(a) Matching words with their meanings 05 Marks
(b) Using words in sentences 05 Marks
(4) Grammar -
(1) Reported Speech 04 Marks
(2) Revision of Tenses 04 Marks
(3) Prepositions of time, place, state, motion etc. 04 Marks
(4) Complex Sentence 04 Marks
(5) Making sentences from given words 04 Marks
(5) Social Latter
OR
Application Writing 07 Marks
(6) Report-writing on the subjects like natural calamities and festivals, speeches of important person etc.
OR
Short-essay 08 Marks
Books recommended for language work :
(1) Contemporary English Grammar and Composition by David Green
(2) A Practical English Grammar by Thomson and Martinet
The following are the prescribed texts in keeping with the structure specified
in the framework section earlier.
1) Sir. Walter
Scott.
Kenilworth
2) George
Eliot
Silas Marner
3) Ed. S.K.Sinha
English Essayists, o.u.p., Bombay. Only the following essays are to besudied:
a) Charles Lamb 'Dream Children ! A Reverie'
b) Charles Lamb 'The Two Races of Men'
c) William Hazlitt ' On the Feeling of Immortal ity in
Youth'
d) R.L. Stevenson 'Waliking Tours'
e) G.K. Chesterton 'On the Pleasures of No Longer Being
very young.'
The
following are the prescribed texts in keeping twits the structure specified in
the framework section earlier.
1) Oliber
Goldsmith The Stoops to
Conquer
2) R. B.
Sheridan The
Rivals
3) Ed. David
Green The Winged Word.
Macmillan India. Only the following poems are prescribed :
1. Sir Thomas Whatt 'I Find No
Peace
2. Edmund Spencer ' The Amoretti'
3. Sir Philip Sidney 'The
Nightingale'
4. W. Shakespeare Sonnet No.116.
5. W. Shakespeare No.
130.
6. J. Donne 'Lover's Infiniteness'
7. G. Herbert 'The Pullery'
8. W. Cowper 'The Castaway'
9. W. Wordsworth 'The Years She Grew' 10. S. T.
Coleridge 'Kubla Khan'
11. Lord Byron 'When We Two Parted'
12. P. B. Shelly 'Ode to the West Wind'
13. John keates 'Ode to a Nightingale'
14. R. Browning 'A Grammarian's Funeral'
15. Acnold 'Shakespeare'
1. Use of Dictionary and understanding of idiomatic
phrases and expressions. A list of such phrases and expressions shall be provided separately.
2. Rapid Reading (advanced) One abridged prose text-book
shall be prescribed for the purpose of teaching Rapid reading comprehension Shall be tested by an
unseen passage of descriptive prose of about 400 words. There shall also
be question of a general nature on the comprehension
of either of the text-books.
3. Writing of applications, letters to the editor and
official letters and business letters of moderate length placing orders.
4. Conversational English for various situations.
5. Translation of a paragraph of about 100 words from.
Gujarati or Hindi into English and Vice-versa or or paraphrasing a short perm.
Note : (1) All the topics listed above
shall carry equal marks.
(2) Conversational English listed at 4 above shall carry 14
marks but shall be tested through questions on dialogue.
1. To turn out to
be
26. To do without
2. To be on
duty
27. To die of
3. To be down
with
28. To pass by
4. To be go
it
29. To care for
5. To be somebody's
pardon
30. To travel by
6. To care to do
somebody's
31. To suffer from
7. To have a look
at 32. To think of
8. To feel like doing
something
33. To think over
9. To make a
joke
34. Come on
10. To make abs
effort 35. All right
11. To make up one's
mind
36. I'm afraid
12. To put
on 37. There's no
13. To give
up 38. I wouldn't
14. To get
on 39. I see
15. To look
for 40. A lot of
16. To hold
on 41. Now that
17. To go
on 42. Not at all
18. To send
for 43. So long as
19. To keep
on 44. Of course
20. To Leave
for 45. By any chance
21. To leave
out 46. Later on
22. To leave
behind 47. After all
23. To get
off 48. By the time
24. To grow
up 49. Would better do
25. To start
with 50. A practical joke.
Text : Adam Bede by George Eliot
(Macmillan's Stories to remember)
Part - I (History)
Following
topics must be taught : The Renaissance; humanism; the Reformation; the Civil
War and Protectorate;
the Restoration; drama; the rise of the periodical essay and the novel.
Part - II (Texts) :
1. Poetry : Following poems are prescribed :
(1)
Sidney, Farewell World.
(2) Raleigh, Farewell to the Court.
(3) Shakespeare, The Phoenix and Turtle.
(4) Drayton, Last Verses.
(5) Wyatt, The Lover Sheweth How He is Forsaken of such as he sometime
enjoyed.
(6) Donne, Song sweetest love. I do not go.
(7) Herbert, Vertue
(8) Kerrick, To Daffadills
(9) Vaughan, The Retreate.
(10) Marvel, Bermudas.
Note
: A short History of English Poetry by Birjadish Prasad
(Macmillan India Ltd.) is recommended for
background reading.
2.
Shakespear, Julius Caesar
3. Pope, The Rape of the Lock
4. Bacon : (1) Of Marriage & Single Life, (2) Of Travel (3) Of Friendship
(4) Of Ambition (5) Of Studies,
(6) Of Superstition (7) Of Death (8) Of Advertising (9) Of Envy, (10) Of youth
& Age.
Format of the Questions - paper :
All Questions carry equal marks :
Q-1
It is questions on the history topics listed in Part-1 with an internal option
from the same part.
Q-2 Critical appreciation of a poem from the Unit-I (Poetry) of the Part-II
with an internal option from the same unit.
Q-3 An essay-type question on the Unit-2 (Julius Caesar) by Shakespeare) with
an internal option from the same unit.
Q-3 An essay-type question on the Unit-3 (The Rape of the Lock by Pope) with
an internal option from the same unit.
Q-3 An essay-type question on the Unit-4 (Bacon's essays) with an internal
option from the same unit.
Part - I (History)
Following topics must be taught : the French Revolution : the American War of Independence; the Reform Acts; the impact of industrialization; scientific thought and discoveries; faith and doubt; classical and Romantic; Victorian poetry; the Victorian novel; Victorian prose; aestheticism.
Part - II (Texts)
1.
Romantic poetry : Following poems are prescribed.
(1) Burns, A Red, Red Rose
(2) Blake, The School Boy
(3) Coleridge, Kubla Khan
(4) Wordsworth, Afterthought
(5) Byron, The Eve of Waterloo
(6) Shelley Ozymandias
(7) Keats, Old on a Grecianum
(8) Scott, Love
(9) Hunt, Abou Ben Adhem
(10) Hood, The Bridge of Sighs
Note
: A short History of English Poetry by Birjadish Prasad
(Macmillan India Ltd.) is recommended for
background reading.
2. Dickens, Oliver Twist :
3.
Five Short stories from Poe, Hawthome, Melville, O. Henry :
O' Henry : (1) Cop and the Anthems
(2) The Last Leaf
Poe : (3) The Purloined Letter
(4) Ligeria
Melville : (5) I and My Chimney
4.
Five essays from Lamb, Hazlits, Emerson and other of the same age. Lamb, (1)
Dream Children : a reverie (2) New
Years Eve (3) Hazlitt : The Indian Juggler (4) On Reading Old Books (5)
Emerson : Self-Reliance.
Note : (The same as notes to Paper - III)
Format of the Questions-paper :
All Questions carry equal marks
Q-1
It is questions on the history topics listed in Part-I with an internal option
from the same part.
Q-2 Critical appreciation of a poem from the Unit-1 (Poetry) of the Part-II
with an internal option from the same unit.
Q-3 An essay-type question on the Unit-2 (Oliver Twist by Dickens) with an
internal option from the same unit.
Q-4 An essay-type question on the short stories of the Unit-3 with an internal
option from the same unit.
Q-5 An essay-type question on the essays of the Unit-4 with an internal option
from the same unit.
All Questions carry equal marks :
Prescribed Text Book :
R.J. Rees, English Literature : an Introduction for foreign Readers, Macmillan India, 1982.
Format of the Question Paper :
All
questions carry equal marks :
Q- 1 It should be on nature, structure, function, definition and
characteristics of imaginative literature in general.
Q- 2to5 : These four questions will test the student's knowledge of various
from of literature.