Manners in classrooms
Sandeep Rai, Editor, GJIMT STUDY CIRCLE

What are manners?

People in prehistoric times learned to act in various ways that made life much easier and more pleasant for one another, after that early civilizations developed some rules for social conduct that were later called as etiquettes(Manners).Good manners show that you have respect for others.

How to implement manners in the classrooms?

It is very necessary for the students to be in manner and teachers to help them in doing so, in and throughout the class to gain what the teacher is teaching in the class.
Before we go to solutions, let us see some common examples that tend to make classroom etiquette a problem.
Habits Like
• Arriving late in the class Room .
• Chatting with each other during class or while fellow student is discussing something with the teacher.
• Trying to dominate your teacher on topics that he/she is teaching.
• Eating and drinking in class.
•Not concentrating when other students ask questions from the teacher.
• Packing before the lecture is fully completed.
• Leaving class early.
• Sleeping in class.
Use of Electronic Devices in classrooms
•Answering a cellphone in the classroom, use of devices like MP3 players, Handheld Games etc .

Solutions of these problems.

Beginning of the class.

Be on time in the class, if possible 5 minutes before the starting of the class.
Switch off Cell phones
Before the starting of the class switch off your mobile phones as they can disturb the study environment of the class..
Way of talking
 Whenever saying/asking something be polite and use professional language.

Always come to the class prepared

 Every student need to come prepared with their subject books, notebook and a pen, if possible give a reading to the topic to be taught in the class.

 Bring your assignment, homework by the due date. Do not make excuses.

Avoid Unwanted Frustration

 Angrily confronting the teacher will create an unacceptable and ugly environment for all involved.

Eatables

 Classrooms are not canteens .Food and other Eatables should not be consumed in the classroom.

Respect the Facilities

 Students are supposed to help in maintaining the appearance of the classroom.

 Do not write on college property such as benches, chairs, books, etc.

 Do not waste classroom resources (Markers, papers, etc.)

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Panjab University M. A. Part 1 ,ENGLISH Sample Questions from previous years papers

1. Examine the view that the machinery gave Pope an unrivalled opportunity of indulging his descriptive powers in The Rape of the Lock.
2. How does the use of the mock-epic conventions affect the structure of The Rape of the Lock ?
3. How are the two announced themes balanced in The Rape of the Lock ?
4. Trace the development of thought and imagery in any one of Keats’s odes.
5. Show from the odes the distinctive qualities of Keats” treatment of Nature.
6. It has been said of Keats : “Greek in temper, he is the very reverse of the Greeks in style.” Examine this view with reference to the Odes of Keats.
7. Discuss and illustrate the view that in Browning’s dramatic monologues poetry is sacrificed to the needs of the drama.
8. Attempt an essay on Browning as a poet of men and women.
9. Examine the range and variety of Browning’s use of the dramatic monologue.
10. Is Eliot’s Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock merely a character sketch, the ironical self-revelation of a neurotic case? Or does the poem carry more ? Give a reasoned answer.
11. Examine the modern qualities in the poetry of W.B. Yeats.
12. Write a critical note on Yeats poetic diction with reference to the prescribed poems.
13. Write a detailed note on Aristotle’s concept of Mimesis (‘Imitation’) and its significance in art.
14. State briefly Aristotle’s grounds of the psychological defence of poetry against its moralistic assailants.
15. What, according to Aristotle, are the constituent elements of tragedy?
16. Express your opinion about Wordsworth’s view that there is no “essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.”
17. How far do you agree with the remark that in spite of his moralistic attitude. Wordsworth’s theory of poetry is essentially psychological in nature ? Give reasons in support of your answer.
18. Assess the significance of the preface to the Lyrical Ballads as a manifesto of the Romantic Movement in English Literature.
19. Comment on Eliot’s view that Arnold is a “propagandist for Criticism” rather than a critic.
20. Discuss Arnold’s view of poetry as a substitute for religion.
21. Discuss the Rape of the Lock as a social satire.
22. Comment on Pope’s use of the supernatural machinery in The Rape of the Lock.
23. Comment on Wordsworth’s philosophical theory as embodied in Ode to the Intimations of Immortality.
24. Discuss the central theme in Keats” Ode to Psyche.
25. Consider the merits of Ode to Nightingale as the most representative Ode of Keats.
26. Comment on the sources of Browning’s Optimism.
27. Discuss Browning’s use of the dramatic monologue with special reference to The Last Ride Together.
28. Discuss the view that Prufrock’s love song is the confession of the despair of a romantic aesthete.
29. Comment on Yeats myth-making with reference to the prescribed poems.
30. How does Aristotle distinguish pity from fear in the effect produced on us by tragedy? How are these emotions socially and psychologically useful ?
31. ‘Without action there can not be a tragedy; there may be without character’ (Aristotle). Discuss.
32. Summarise Wordsworth’s views on the language of poetry.
33. How does Wordsworth justify his choice of subjects in his poetry from ‘common life’?
34. Comment on the view that the entire ethos of the Eighteenth Century is reflected in ‘The Rape of the Lock.”
35. Discuss the narrative and artistic significance of the ‘toilet scene’ in ‘The Rape of the Lock.’
36. Discuss the theme of illusion and reality in the ‘Odes of Keats.’
37. Comment on the recurring themes in relation to life and art in Keats Odes.
38. Discuss Browning as a poet of love with special reference to the prescribed poems.
39. Consider the merits of ‘My Last Duchess’ as a dramatic monologue.
40. Discuss the view the Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ is symptomatic of the plight of modern man.
41. Discuss Yeats use of symbols with reference to the prescribed poems.
42. Comment on the compulsive need of Yeats to create his own mythology.
43. What relative importance does Aristotle give to plot and character in tragedy?
44. Write an essay on Aristotle’s conception of the tragic hero.
45. Discuss Aristotle’s views on the cathartic function of tragedy.
46. Discuss the significance of ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’ as a statement about poetry at the time when it appeared.
47. Comment on Wordsworth’s statement that ‘poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.’
48. Summarise and discuss Arnold’s view that the most useful way of judging poetry is to apply ‘lines and expressions of the great master’s as a touchstone to other poetry.
49. Consider Arnold’s belief that great poetry is a criticism of life.
50. Consider Mother Courage as Anti-war play.
51. What is ‘Alienation Effect?’ How far does Brecht succeed in achieving it in Mother Courage?
52. Mother Courage’s contradiction and inconsistencies are rooted in her instinct survival in a system the ultimately proves stronger than her wits. Discuss.
53. Compare and contrast Anouilh’s Antigone with Sophocle’s Antigone.
54. Discuss the theme of loneliness in the play, Antigone.
55. Analyse the character of Creon
56. Discuss the Waiting for Godot as an image of the existential situation of modern man.
57. Write a critique on the stylistic devices employed in the waiting for Godot.
58. Consider the significance of Lucky and Pozzo.
59. Write a short not of any one of the following:
(a) Epic-theatre
(b) Expressionism in the twentieth-century European drama.
(c) Naturalism and theatre.
60. What characteristics of Augustanism do you find reflected in The Rape of the Lock?
61. What light does The Rape of the Lock throw upon the manners and morals of the people living in the eighteenth century England?
62. What are the contrary pulls towards which Keats feels drawn in Ode to a Nightingale?
63. What is the main theme of Ode on a Grecian Urn, and how has it been worked out?
64. In what way is the Renaissance temper reflected in Browning’s poetry? Illustrate.
65. Did Browning evolve ‘dramatic monologue’ as a compensation for his failure as a full fledged dramatist?
66. What are the peculiarities of Love-Song of Prufrock as a love poem?
67. Comments on ‘Character comes second(Aristotle)’
68. Identify the mock-heroic elements in ‘The Rape of the Lock’ and comment on their significance in the poem.
69. ‘The Rape of the Lock’ has been described as the triumph of the insignificant.’ Do you agree with this judgement?
70. What function does the process of reminiscencing play in The Prelude, especially in Bk. I ?
71. Would you regard ‘Love Song of Prufrock’ as a study in an alienated soul?
72. In what sense is W.B. Yeats a Seminal poet of our times?
73. Comment on one of the following;
a) A plot does not have unity, as some people think, simply because it deals with a single hero (Aristotle)
b) The poet thinks and feels in the spirit of human passions (Wordsworth).
74. What is the function of poetry according to Wordsworth?
75. Explain Arnold’s concept of disinterestedness.
76. Discuss Brecht’s concept of epic theatre with reference to Mother Courage.
77. “Mother Courage lives by war but does not realize that war also lives by her.” Discuss.
78. Discuss the salient features of the theatre of the Absurd in relation to the Waiting for Godot.
79. Discuss the role of Lucky in the ‘Waiting for Godot’.
80. Comment on the view that Pope’s ‘The Rape’ of the Lock’ represents the triumph of the insignificant’
81. What is the significance, moral and aesthetic of the employment of the Rosicrucian spirits in ‘The Rape of the Lock?
82. What is the significance of the Italian Renaissance and the background to Browning’s major poems?
83. Write critically on Browning’s treatment of the grotesque in art. Illustrate your answer with reference to specific poems that you know.
84. Write an essay on the new poetic technique evolved by Eliot in the ‘Prufrock’ poem.
85. Comment on one of the following:-
a) A probable impossibility is to be preferred to and improbable possibility (Aristotle).
b) Poetry is the spontaneous over flow of powerful feelings (Wordsworth).
c) The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum (Eliot).
86. Explain Aristotle’s view on Epic poetry.
87. What aspects of contemporary life in eighteenth century England have been satirically expressed in The Rape of the Lock.
88. Comment critically on the significance of the Cave of Spleen in The Rape of the Lock.
89. In what sense does Ode to Autumn represent the perfection of Keat’s sensuous art?
90. Write a brief critical essay on Keats’s notion that genuine poetry does not need to have a palpable design on the reader.
91. Write an essay on Browning as the poet of love, illustrating your answer with reference to specific poems.
92. Is Browning concerned with reflecting the crisis of the soul at a particular moment of time in his most characteristic poems?
93. In what sense may Eliat be said to break new ground in poetic technique in The Love Song Purfrock?
94. Comment on the form of Songs of Myself.
95. Comment on Miller’s dramatic technique with reference to Death of Salesman.
96. What role do the Rosicrucian spirits play in The Rape of the Lock.
97. Does the Toilet Scene in the Rape of the Lock contain any religious motifs? Write on this aspect on the poem fully and convincingly ?
98. Evaluate Keats’ Ode to Autumn as a distinctive example of his concrete sensuous art.
99. Make a critical assessment of Keats theory of poetry as reflected in his Letters and as my be inferred from his poems.
100. Is it correct to hold that in Browning’s poetry passion is offered in its crude elemental from ?
101. Write a brief essay on Browning as a poet of love. Illustrate your answer from his poems.
102. Explain Eliot’s method’s of critical enquiry.
103. Write a critical essay on Pope’s mode of satiric portraiture in The Rape of the Lock.
104. How do you identify the ethos of the eighteenth century Society in England that has been satirized in The Rape of the Lock ?
105. What are the different attitudes to death that have been dramatized in Ode to A Nightingale?
106. Write a brief essay on Keats notion of Negative Capability. Illustrate it with the help of his poems.
107. In what way does Browning’s poetry reflect the ethos of the Italian Renaissance? Illustrate from the poems that you have read.
108. How does the technique of the dramatic Monologue bring out the strength and limitations of Browning’s genius as a poet and dramatist ?
109. Explain fully the description of The Rape of the Lock as a mock-heroic poem.
110. ‘In the main; The Rape of Lock is matching artificiality with artifice, pretentiousness with pretence-satirically, but with a mitigating gaiety and lightness of touch’ Discuss in the light of the remark, Pope’s satiric method in The Rape of the Lock.
111. ‘Keat’s profound sense of reality saves The Ode on a Grecian Urn from being a mere escapes poem about the supremacy of art., Elucidate.
112. The union of amplitude and economy that the from of Ode has given Keats unique opportunities for a concentrated intensity and concreteness of idiom.’ Discuss the odes of Keats in the light of remark.
113. Bring out Browning’s mastery of the dramatic monologue with the help of any one of the poems you have studied.
114. Show from the poems you have studied how Browning’s optimism is never skin-deep and it always spring from a sense of the mobility of life.
115. The rich disorganization of The Waste Land is symbolic of the modern, uprooted civilisation’, Discuss.
116. Analyse The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock as a typically modern love poem.
117. In what sense does The Rape of the Lock represent the triumph of the insignificant’ Amplify.
118. What is the parodic intention of the Cave of Spleen in The Rape of the Lock ?
119. What are the recurrent themes and Motifs in Keats’s five famous Odes ? Elucidate and illustrate with the reference to the text of the poems.
120. Write a brief essay on Keats’s development from a sensuous to a deeply contemplative poet.
121. “While the odes were not composed as parts of any coherent programme , they are naturally linked together as variations on some central ideas and questionings which had long been active in Keat’s mind.” Discuss.
122. In the twentieth century Browning has been praised for his development of the dramatic monologue, his analysis of the passion of love, and for his refreshing diction. Write a critical note on any one of these in the light of the poems you have read.
123. Write a critical appreciation of “Sailing to Byzantium” or “The Second Coming” showing how history and anthropology provide both the symbolic framework and the bulk of the details by which the over riding myth is established.
124. “We value the poetry of Yeats, like other good poetry, because it fixes moments of experience in memorable image and distinctly heard rhythms, and so seems to make them timeless. His art has an additional value for us because it belongs so definitely to our own time.’
125. Discuss the above statement with particular attention to Yeats’s “distinctly heart rhythms” or “modernity” as found in the poems you have read.
126. First, clearly state Wordsworth’s views on the language of poetry; and then examine their validity on their own merit.
127. What new criteria of judgement of poetry does Arnold offer in his essay Study of Poetry ? Give your own assessment of their distinctive value.
128. Do you agree with the view that, in The Rape of the Lock, the familiar devices of epic are observed, but the incidents or characters are beautifully proportioned to the scale of mock-epic?
129. Do you think the sylphs and gnomes in The Rape of the Lock are not so much external guardians as projections outward of states of mind, from conquettish concern with one’s appearance to the self-pitying rancor of the spoilsport, and the ideal of good humour, explicity introduced by Clarissa, is a everywhere present?
130. Write a brief note on the theme and imagery of the Ode on a Grecian Urn, and show that the statement, ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an integral part of the poem.
131. Write an appreciation of Ode to Psyche or Ode to a Nightingale.
132. Does Browning seem out of step with his fellow Victorian poets in style ? Illustrate your answer with examples from the poems prescribed in your course.
133. In the light of the poems prescribed in your course examine the following statement: ‘A blind optimist might be simply unreadable, but Browning’s optimism was not blind”.
134. In what respect does The Love Song of J. Alfred Purfrock represent twentieth century poetic revolution?
135. Write an essay on
a) Imagery in Metaphysical poetry.
b) The theme of alienation in contemporary British of American drama.
c) The Humanitarian novel in the Victorian age.

M.A. I, PAPER III sample paper
ENGLISH (BRITISH LITERATURE - 1750 to 1900)
Time : 1¼ hours M. Marks : 40
Note : First question is compulsory.
1. Explain any four of the following terms :—
Romantic Revival, Neo-classicism, Dramatic Monologue, Victorian Compromise, Pre-Raphaelites, Evolutionary theories. 20
2. Discuss the Mansfield Park as a comedy of Manners.
OR
Discuss Jane Austen as a novelist on the basis of the novels you have read.
OR
Discuss Wordsworth as a poet of nature on the basis of poems you have read.
OR
Highlight the salient characteristics of Romantic Poetry as expressed in the poetry
of Wordsworth. 20

M.A. I, PAPER IV
ENGLISH
Time : 1¼ hours M. Marks : 40
1. Write short notes on any of the following in not more than 200 words :
Modernism, German Expressionism 10
2. For Forster, the tourist experience opens out a challenging perspective, leading to
a questioning of the volume of class X nationalism. Discuss the above in the light of the Mosque section of the novel, A Passage to India. 10

Attempt all the questions.
1. Write notes on any three of the following terms :
The Elizabethan Age, Reformation, Metaphysical Poetry, Satire, Wit
2. Bring out the metaphysical elements in Donne’s Love poetry and Religions
poems, with special reference to the poems you have studied.

Q1: What is Communication ? Delineate various kinds of Communication.

Q2: What is the role of a reporter? Explain briefly the traits of a reporter with reference to his rights and responsibilities.

Q3. What are major sources of news ? Write about various news departments in a newspaper.

Q4. The assemblage of headline, story and picture is called page make-up in a newspaper. Write about terries of make-up of the front page. What are the tips for an attractive format.

Q5. Write about the role of an editor as a Communication. What points should he keep in mine while selecting an article ?

Q6. Write a story on any two of the situations :
(1) Computer Education in Colleges.
(2) Use of readymade Photostat material for cramming in university examinations.
(3) One-day Cricket Match at Mohali.
(4) Harmful effects of Ozone depletion.
(5) Annual Convocation of your college.

Q7. Write about interviewing skills required for reporting. Structure an interview with newly elected CM of a state.

Q8. Write short notes on any three of the following.
(1) Public Relation and Press.
(2) Copy making and Copy Correction
(3) News room-its organization and operations.
(4) Investigative story or a scam.
(5) Role of Press Council of India.
(6) Proof reading symbols and manner of direction.

Q9. Explain in 4 to 5 lines any five of the following terms.
(1) Beeper
(2) The Lead
(3) Stop Press
(4) Kill the story
(5) Middles
(6) Color stories
(7) Photojournalism
(8) Stringer
(9) Newspaper ‘Goes to sleep’.
(10) Prasar Bharti.

Sector 17

By Bhupinder Singh,Media Coordinator,GJIMT
Irresistible sector 17, That is how I describe it. I am addicted to a walk on its pavements for the last thirty plus years.
As a student, I remember the bus that would pass in front of Neelam Theatre and we would alight to see the movies. Later the road was converted into a plaza.
Why I love seventeen ! One—modernity — a cross-section of glamorous people moving from one shop to another. It is really a cosmopolitan joint.
Second—The long stroll !
One gets all the friends at around 7.00 p.m. in the evening. One of them is a landlord Arun, Another owns a big eating joint but loves to have coffee, three are university professors and four are college lecturers among strollers.
Luckily ten of my students own shops. So it is delight to have long walks with my friends Gobind, Kuku, Prem, Jasvinder, Manik and Ashok. In a gregarious group one, indulges in badinage covering all the topics from DVD’s of western movies to the self help book.
Third reason for my stroll in Sector 17 is quality of eatables. First of all the ubiquitous Coffee Houses. I remember the day when first coffee house started in Sector 22. 25 p for a cup of tea—now it is Rs. 8/- but who doesn’t love aroma of coffee. As poet Pope applauds coffee in his famous poem.
So all my group invariably takes coffee—I prefer tray coffee - separate concoction, milk and sugarfree pills. My average is 3 cups a day. Sometimes I, after discussing TS Eliot in my MA classes—who in one of his poem said : ‘I have measured my life with coffee spoons’ — I go from college to Sector 17 only for a cup of coffee.
And at 12.30 p.m. all my colleagues who have retired from college job collect together. First for a long walk and then for dosas and idlis.
Fourth reason for my stroll in Sector 17 is books shops. Right on the pavement one finds books on Vikram Seth, Rushdie, Dale Carniege, Agatha Christie and Omar Khayyam. The four famous books shops of Seventeen have the latest fare. I spend about one hour moving from one book shop to another. One find magazines on Internet which is also one of my hobbies. The fifth reason for my visit to the Coffee House is Saturday evenings where some or other music programme is held, I love the Punjabi folk music shows.
Sector 17 is a great leveller where rich and poor, fashionable and simple, scholar and the ignorant all jostle together.
It is really Chandigarh’s heart-throb——my beloved Sector 17.
Sector 17

By Bhupinder SinghMedia Coordinator,GJIMT
Irresistible sector 17, That is how I describe it. I am addicted to a walk on its pavements for the last thirty plus years.
As a student, I remember the bus that would pass in front of Neelam Theatre and we would alight to see the movies. Later the road was converted into a plaza.
Why I love seventeen ! One—modernity — a cross-section of glamorous people moving from one shop to another. It is really a cosmopolitan joint.
Second—The long stroll !
One gets all the friends at around 7.00 p.m. in the evening. One of them is a landlord Arun, Another owns a big eating joint but loves to have coffee, three are university professors and four are college lecturers among strollers.
Luckily ten of my students own shops. So it is delight to have long walks with my friends Gobind, Kuku, Prem, Jasvinder, Manik and Ashok. In a gregarious group one, indulges in badinage covering all the topics from DVD’s of western movies to the self help book.
Third reason for my stroll in Sector 17 is quality of eatables. First of all the ubiquitous Coffee Houses. I remember the day when first coffee house started in Sector 22. 25 p for a cup of tea—now it is Rs. 8/- but who doesn’t love aroma of coffee. As poet Pope applauds coffee in his famous poem.
So all my group invariably takes coffee—I prefer tray coffee - separate concoction, milk and sugarfree pills. My average is 3 cups a day. Sometimes I, after discussing TS Eliot in my MA classes—who in one of his poem said : ‘I have measured my life with coffee spoons’ — I go from college to Sector 17 only for a cup of coffee.
And at 12.30 p.m. all my colleagues who have retired from college job collect together. First for a long walk and then for dosas and idlis.
Fourth reason for my stroll in Sector 17 is books shops. Right on the pavement one finds books on Vikram Seth, Rushdie, Dale Carniege, Agatha Christie and Omar Khayyam. The four famous books shops of Seventeen have the latest fare. I spend about one hour moving from one book shop to another. One find magazines on Internet which is also one of my hobbies. The fifth reason for my visit to the Coffee House is Saturday evenings where some or other music programme is held, I love the Punjabi folk music shows.
Sector 17 is a great leveller where rich and poor, fashionable and simple, scholar and the ignorant all jostle together.
It is really Chandigarh’s heart-throb——my beloved Sector 17.

B.A.PART-II

1. Annoy (noun), fail (noun), sympathy(verb), marvellous (verb), woman(adjective), influence (adjective), evident(adverb), consequent (adverb).

2. Hen Pecked husband, An Iron hand, To pull a long face, to grease the palm, Manifestation, Commence, to knock down, to enlarge upon.

3.1. Ludhiana is one of the most industrialized cities in India.(Change into Comparative).
2. Those who live in glass house must not throw stones at others. (Change Voice).
3. Every wants to go heaven.(Make Interrogative)
4. He is too timid to be soldier(Remove too)
5. A soldier and afraid of death! (Change into assertive)
6. “Will you forgive me for my rudeness”? said the student to the teacher. (Change narration).
7. It was a very problem to solve (Change into exclamatory)
8. We eat that we may live (Make a simple sentence)
9. He did not forget me (Make positive)
10. I could not but laugh. (Use ‘help)

1. wealth (adjective) ridicule (adjective), hesitate (adverb), decision)adverb), fragrant (noun), obey (noun) definition (verb), critical (verb).
2. To break the ice; Cat and dog life: To draw a blank : To give way; to knock down: A narrow escape ; to pull a long face ; To stab in the back.

3.1. Why cry over spilt milk? (Change into assertive).
2. His services are too valuable to be dispenses with (Remove too).
3. The doctor felt the Pulse of the patient. (Change voice).
4. Krishna said to me, “Let us celebrate our success.”(Change narrations)
5. Romi is the most intelligent boy in our class. (Change into positive).
6. Nobody wants to die by inches.(Change into interrogative).
7. How cowardly he was in War ! (Change into assertive).
8. It was done in my absence. (Make complex).
9. Ranjit is a very fine young man.(Change into exclamatory).
10. Had you not helped me, I….. (Complete the sentence).

1. Wealth (Adjective), illustrate (Adjective), powerful (Adverb), dreadful (Adverb), assure (Noun) fragrant (Noun), tolerance (verb) elective (Verb).

2. A cock and bull story; Tall talk: An axe to grind; To take law into one’s own hands: Sword of Damocles: Rand and file; Once in a blue moon;.

3.1. As soon as the rain stops….(Complete the sentence).

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2. While in Rome, do as the Romans do. (Change into complex)
3. We shall not forget your good deeds. (Change voice)
4. The young girl said, “what happiness”!(Change narration).
5. Fe students are as honest as Vivek. (Change into comparative)
6. He is too gentle to misbehave(Remove Too).
7. Tell the facts. You are in for trouble (Changing into compound).
8. Who does not want money? (Change into assertive).
9. Everybody wants to be happy.(Change to interrogative).
10. It was a grand victory. (Change into exclamatory).

1. Definition (verb), fail (noun) beauty (adjective) conclusion (verb) danger (adverb) crate (adjective) assure (noun) confident (adverb).

2. (a) an open secret (b) out of pocket (stick to one’s guns (d) the apple of one’s eye (e) white elephant )(f) to bring to light (g) ups and downs (h) a hard nut to crack.

3.1. Who does not love the fragrance of flowers?(Change into assertive)
2. Who can defeat the Indian army) (Change the voices).
3. The President said to the people, “Let us join hands to root out corruption.” (Change the narration).
4. Spring is the most beautiful season of the year.(Change into comparative degree).
5. Nobody recognized his services. (Change into interrogative).
6. Sanjay is too smart to be believed. (Remove too).\
7. As soon as the President finished his speech, the people began to leave the hall.(Use No sooner-did).
8. His father died. His family was ruined. (Join the two sentences).
9. It was a lovely scene. (Change into exclamatory).
10. I wish I ….. (Complete the sentences.

1. Definition (verb), fail (noun), beauty (adjective), sympathy (verb) flatter (noun), marvel(adjective), consequent (adverb), obedient (adverb).

2. (a) the apple of one’s eye (b) lame excuse (c) break out (d) white elephant (e) ups and downs (f) bag and baggage (g) at arm’s length (h) off an on.

3.1. He is too tried to walk (Remove too)
2. Every one wants to be happy (Change into interrogative)
3. He did not dislike me (Change into positive)
4. What a lame excue ! (Change into assertive)
5. The thief was arrested. (Change the voice)
6. You should accept his proposal (Change into negative).
7. The father said to his daughter , “Did you prepare the lunch?” (Change the narration)
8. Ritu is the best dancer in the college. (Change into comparative degree).

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9. He worked so that …… (Complete the sentence)
10. Dot it at the first opportunity. (Change into compound sentence)

1. a) to add fuel to fire b) build castles in the air (c) Make up one’s mind (d) give away (e) let the cat out of bag (f) play with fire (g) look around (h) in the air

2. Tempt (noun) star (adjective) beauty (verb) near (adverb) act (noun) efficient (adverb) memory (adjective) advice (verb).

3.1. She gave me the key of the house (Chang the voice).
2. She said to her, “You must look after your parent”. (Change the narration).
3. Ha anyone ever known the ways of God? (Change into assertive).
4. He will come tomorrow). (Change into a question).
5. You are too late to be considered for admission.(Remove too).
6. This the most informative book on science.(Change the degree of comparison).
7. As soon as the bell rang, the children ran out (Use non sooner than).
8. He came home. He came late (Join the two sentences).
9. I am very happy today. (Make exclamatory sentences).
10. Who knows.(Complete the sentence)

1. differ (adjective), hate (adjective), greedy (adverb), noble (adverb) mix (noun), bathe (noun), satisfaction (verb), memory (verb).

2. look upto, manifestation, neck and neck, over the moon, play with fire, out of the question, root and branch, scapegoat.

3.1. They understand will his point of view. (Change the voice).
2. He left no plan untried (Change into affirmative).
3. He is too proud to beg. (Remove Too).
4. It is a glorious view.(Change into exclamatory).
5. Winter is the coldest season of the year (Change the degree of comparison)
6. He said, “You must meet him tomorrow”(Change the narration)
7. This knife is sharp (Transform into a negative sentence)
8. She asked me the reason of my coming. (Change into complex)
9. We should not bother about such things (Change into interrogative).
10. I shall go to Bangalore and bring a saree for you. (Rewrite as: If I go to…..)

WORKSHEET (B.A. II)
GRAMMAR
1. Do as directed :
(i) “Do you know many of the prominent writers in our country “ ? Said the young man.
(Change the narration)
(ii) The next war will destroy humanity.
(Change into interrogative)
(iii) He is so weak that he cannot stand. (Use ‘too’)
(iv) O that my mother were alive ! (Change into assertive)
(v) Mohan is smarter that any other boy in his class.
(Change the degree of comparison)
(vi) No sooner did the meeting end than I started for home. (use as soon as)
(vii) He must work very hard to make up for the lost time.
(Change into a compound sentence)
(viii) We must eat, or we cannot live. (Rewrite as a simple sentence)
(ix) The telephone wires have been cut. (Change the voice)
(x) I shall not go unless I am invited. (Begin with ‘if’)
2. Correct any five of the following :
(i) May I take your leave.
(ii) There is no place for us in the bus.
(iii) Everthing settled between you and I.
(iv) Little money is better than none.
(v) This pen is more inferior than that.
(vi) Walking on the road, a snake bit him.
(vii) It is no good to visit him today.
3. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions of the following sentences :
(i) Do not scoff _________ old men.
(ii) We all look _________ better days.
(iii) I am sick _________ advising you.
(iv) She is confined _________ bed these days.
(v) He has a distaste _________ country life.
(vi) Do not jeer _________ him.
(vii) He is intemperate _________ his habits.

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
B.A. II WORKSHEET NO. 1
Transformation of Sentences (Some Rules)
A. The transformation of sentences is an interesting exercise of changing a sentence from one grammatical structure to another, retaining, however, almost the original meaning of the sentence, e.g.—
A
By the Change in the adverb ‘too’.
Following rules govern this change :—
(a) Use ‘that’ in place of ‘to’.
(b) Use ‘so’ in place of ‘too’.
(c) If the sentence is in the past tense, ‘could’ is used in the subordinate clause.
(d) If the sentence is in the past tense, ‘could’ is used in the subordinate clause.
Example :—
1. He is too poor to give money.
He is so poor that he cannot give money.
2. She is too weak to walk.
She is so weak that she cannot walk.
3. She was too angry to talk to him.
She was so angry that she could not talk to him.
4. The car was too full to accommodate us.
The car was so full that it could not accommodate us.
5. I am so hungry to wait.
I am so hungry that I cannot wait.
Removing “too” with “not”
When ‘too’ is to be removed in a sentence construction in the negative, the Subordinate Clause has the ‘Future’ construction, and the negative adjunct (no or not) is turned into positive.
Examples :—
1. He is too touchy not to mind it.
He is so touchy that he will mind it.
2. He is too clever not to see through your moves.
He is so clever that he will see through your moves.
3. The joke was too good not to excite laughter.
The joke was so good that it would excite laughter.
B. Transformation of Affirmative sentences to Negative ones and vice-versa.
In the transformation of Affirmative sentences to Negative sentences (or vice-versa) the word opposite in meaning (antonym) is used. In no case should the sense of the sentences undergo change, though we cannot of course, rule out the obvious difference, of meaning, so far as the degree of quality, intensity, number of quantity is concerned.
Examples :—By putting a ‘No’ or ‘not’ in the sentence so transformed.
Affirmative Negative
1. The climate of Chandigarh is good. The climate of Chandigarh is not bad.
2. This glass is empty. This glass is not full.
3. His offer was quite bid. His offer was not too small.
BY USING DOUBLE NEGATIVES
Examples :—
Affirmative Negative
1. Ram is polite Ram is not impolite.
2. Sohan is courteous. Sohan is not discourteous.
3. He came here punctually. He did not fail to come here punctually.
BY CHANGING THE DEGREE OF COMPARISON
Examples :—
Affirmative Negative
1. He is taller than you. You are not as tall as he.
2. Butter is better than milk. Milk is not as good as butter.
3. Simla is higher than Solan. Solan is not as high as Simla.

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
B.A. I WORKSHEET NO. 1
Change the Voice
1. We cook our meals here.
2. They are building the house.
3. Some boys have insulted their teacher.
4. Today he missed his lunch.
5. They were building the house.
6. Some boys had insulted their teacher.
7. The principal will expel him from college.
8. I shall have written my letters by 6 p.m.
9. They couldn’t grind their axe.
10. Some day somebody may break his head.
11. We might not invite our Chief.
12. You should not waste your time.
13. Listen to me.
14. Kindly forgive this boy.
15. They speak highly of me.
16. He does not care for her.
17. Are you speaking the truth ?
18. Whom is he teaching ?
19. It is time to take tea.
20. Quinine tastes bitter.
21. Success has made him vain.
22. The thief was arrested.
23. He has been sentenced to death.
24. I hate people looking at me.
25. Show me a man who has not wasted his time.
26. He likes his children to serve him.
27. By whom was this letter written ?
28. I regret to say you have to fly tomorrow.
29. You are supposed to know how to serve.
30. Some people dress their children very well.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
B.A. I WORKSHEET NO. 2
Prepositions
Fill in the blanks :—
1. I am fed………….with my tailor.
2. I must consult you …………. that matter.
3. We must provide …………. our children ………….the evil day.
4. Do not live …………. riches.
5. Kindly refer …………. my letter of 5th instant.
6. He was …………. standing his subordinates.
7. I differ …………. you on the point.
8. We rely …………. your word.
9. He substituted the usual dinner ……….. one which was not so good.
10. The wife of the doctor was stunned …………. shock.
11. The rich should not look …………. the poor.
12. The headmaster exempted him …………. the payment of fine.
13. I have no faith …………. you.
14. The earth revolves …………. the sun.
15. He is not interested …………. cricket.
16. Why are you gazing …………. me ?
17. I am sought …………. in college.
18. He died …………. cholera.
19. He acceded …………. my request.
20. I acted according …………. his advice.
21. She insists …………. your doing it.
22. His house is infested …………. rats.
23. The first lesson we should learn is obedience and respect ………….
others.
24. Success consists …………. hard work.
25. How did you come …………. this watch ?
26. He deals kindly …………. me.
27. He is free …………. debt.
28. Do not fall …………. with your friends.
29. He has the gift …………. the gab.

30. I called him a Shakespeare ………….way of joke.

THE RAINBOW FADES
Nishant Thakur
B.A. III, 7035

The rainbow of our life ultimately fades. But the radiance that oozes from the deep grooves of a wrinkeled face can brighten our darkest dilemmas. Its the light of experience, the light of selfless lone. Its the golden old age.
Its our insanity if we deliherately prefer to ignore our senior citizens who are meticulously crafted by time for us to extract some priceless qualities from than.
An ignored aged person, a helpless, hopeless soul is a shane for our society. We all, will also face, so if we dont set the right example for our coming generation even we’ll be ignored.
There is nothing more viewing and vapid than an isolated oldage. Its the time when our seniors ned us more. All they want is some time. And no we can not be so pre offupied that we fail to give then some time. Its because of them that we have time.
Even our jeopardized society fails to educate us about the dire attention that is the prerequisite for once all happiness ?
But we as humans have to take a stand and give our senior citizen they respect, love, time they law fully deserve from us. Lets not make their each day a curse. Its better to die once than to die each day lets not forget that even our rainbow will fade one day….

GJ-IMT
LESSON PLAN
BBA II Sem. (2008-2011)
Subject: BUSINESS COMMUNICATION-II
Subject Code:
Start Date: 15 January, 2009 Assessment Scheme
Finish Date: 30 April, 2009 Internal Assessment: 40 marks
No. of weeks: 15 weeks External Assessment: 60 marks
No. of Sessions per week: 4 Total 100
Session Duration: 60 minutes

Sessions Topic References
Essentials of Grammar
4 Parts of Speech, Punctuation, Vocabulary Building, Phonetics
Essential of English Grammar by Bhupinder Singh Sehgal. CH-I
Office Management
4 Types of Correspondence, Receipt and Dispatch of Mail, Filing Systems, Classification of Mail Online Spark Notes
4 Letter & Resume Writing:
4 Types of Letters-Formal / Informal, Importance and Function, Drafting the Applications, Elements of Structure, Preparing the Resume, Do’s& Don’ts of Resume Book rags.com
Test—I
Presentation Skills
4 Importance of Presentation Skills, Capturing Data, Voice & Picture Integration, Guidelines to make Presentation Interesting, Body Language, Voice Modulation. Questa.com
4 Interview Preparation
Types of Interview, Preparing for the Interviews, Attending the Interview, Interview Process, Employers Expectations, General Etiquette, Dressing Sense, Postures & Gestures Princeton Review
MST—I
Group Discussion & Presentation
4 Definition, Process, Guidelines, Helpful Expressions, Evaluation
Questa.com
MST—II
4. General Etiquette, Proficiency in Letter Drafting / Interview Preparation Questa.com

References
R1 Business Communication By Bodh Raj
R 2 Business Correspondence By N K.Ghosh

Note: 1). Students are advised to consult ‘other sources’ plus literature available on the concerned topic.
2) The material for various topics would also be given from my own sources from internet & from
online Library Questia.com.

These Rosebuds will Not Bloom ?
By Prof.) Bhupinder Singh Sehgal
The rainbow springs its seven colours over the fountain in the rose-garden. There is an aura of
Smiles on the faces of roses-white rose,yellow rose ,pink rose and red rose. The festival day is
Here again.A relief from monotony , a take off for the gregarious spiriots , the lilting tunes , the ballons, the exhibition of cut flowers, pots and an
Assortment of fashionable beaus and belles. As Chaucer would have said, ‘Here is God’s plenty?” Yes , here is happiness spreading its wings and touching every lip , caressing every cheek and the budding children.
But does happiness spring on the face of the millions of the poor children? The poverty stares at the face of the little rosebuds. The squalor and the dirt, malnutrition and adversity; the skeleton faces of little kids, the infant sucking at the milkless breasts of their emaciated mothers, the kids who never learn A,B,C, the teen aged boys and girls slogging for long hours in factories . The lisping kid washing greasy utensils in a cheap hotel, the bare-footed,bare headed kids of the slum areas yearn for a fleeting smile.
Why are some children flowers that whither ?
Why are there sobs to be heard in the por homes? Why does the dust fill the eyes of some infants? Why is the fragrance of the rose garden not wafted everywhere? Why is the alphabef\t a jumbled puzzle for many little kids? Why are the proteins and carbohydrates alien words for the under nourished ? why is despondency writ large on ghettoes of India,Asian countries, SOUTH Africa, and even some Western countries ? The children cry all the world over. Why does the cry not reach us ?
There are many regions of conflicts in the world . The children of South Africa are crushed undetr the heels of racial superiority. Apartheid in South Africa has suffocated infant ambitions. Infant and child mortality rates in Angola and Mozambique are now estimated to the highest in the world. The tragic consequence is that every four minutes a child who would have lived is dying in Angola and Mozambique.There are pockets of extreme poverty in all the regions of the world.The main culprits are war and economic and military but also the social future of nations. In the military but drain which could be used for better, constructive and peaceful purposes for the millions of children who are down-trodden and poor.
The first cry of a new born baby in paris or Rome or Beijing, or New Delhi or Harare, has the same pitch and tone, each saying “Here I am, I have come through, I am the citizen of the world.” The babies, suckling, growing into youths restless and questioning, then as grown ups they seek a hope. There are child faces of blossom smiles or mouths of hunger. Faces having land and sea in them, faces lost and wandering where to go this afternoon or tomorrow morning. Some faces are profiles in an instant of agony. Some faces have an expression of a hate ready-to-kill or clam and ready-for-death faces.There is suffering which we are to mitigate.There is SOS help which we are to render.
There are orphan children whom we are to educate. There are tears which we are to wipe. There are wounds which we are nurse . There are naked children who we are to clothe. There are problems of poverty, unemployment and alienation which we are to tackle . All is not rosy on this rosy day . As John Keats wrote –
‘The weariness, the fever and the fret there, were men sit and hear each other groan, where palsy shakes a few sad last grey hair, where youth grows pale, spectre-thin and dies’.
This is our earth, not everywhere joyous, not everywhere contented. There is a distinct message for us. “Help the poor” . There is responsibility on us to ameliorate the plight of the poor children.

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Preface to ASGAH BHATKAN (limitless QuestS.Harbans Singh,M.A.,P.E.S.(I) Former Registrar,Panjabi University Patiala.
“Give up hope of destination—-
Go on, go on the way without rancour,
Rejoice, dear friend,
That distances are expanding ever;
Receding is hope
Of reaching the goal”

These are some of the most beautiful lines in Bhagwant Singh’s latest collection entitled ASGAH BHATKAN (limitless Quest): lines which are sensitive, eloquent and meaningful . They represent the central theme of his poetry – the distance between desire and realization, between hope and despair, between love and hate. Here is recaptured the true rhythm and conceit of poetry as well as serenity of a philosophic vision .A consciousness of the uncertainty of fulfillment and fragility of human happiness has characterized Bhagwant Singh’s verse from the very beginning . He thus cut out the period of apprenticeship in romantic sentimentalism through which practically all of our Punjabi poets have passed. This is the reason why his poetry looks maturer than his years.

ASGAH BHATKAN , which is Bhagwant Singh’s third collection, marks a significant stage in his own growth to adulthood. He has here achieved greater poise and certitude and a surer control over his medium. Despite the turbulence of the poet’s spirit, this latest verse is remarkable for its restraint of expression and smoothness of rhythm. The sobriety of tone he has attained should be a prelude to still greater achievement.

Bhagwant Singh belongs to none of the schools which dominate Punjabi poetry today. He maintains a genuinely personal and individual tone of voice. Its principal notes are a deeply felt anguish of the soul and an undercurrent of faith and optimism . He does not
let himself be completely, overwhelmed by his sense of suffering and seeks redemption for it in articulation , in song, in creative act. This mystique of the poetic articulation is what separates him from such of his contemporaries as seek refuge in the social act or the absurd. He does not write as if to convey or communicate , but to share an experience . This gives to his work a tonal quality of emotive stress and inner conflict. His expression , though straight forward and matter- of – fact, acquires a sharpness verging occasionally on the satirical . Essentially a poet of cynical sensibility, Bhagwant Singh is refereshingly exempt from cant and frothiness.
Bhagwant Singh’s involvement with his own self may look somewhat morbid , but the experience he seeks to realize has a quality of genuiness. The world of frustration he recreates in his poems is not an unrecognizeable phenomen. This lends to the poet’s vision communicability as well as integrity. ……Dated 1965,