English for Beginners

Contents

Semester-I

Unit I: Conversational Skills

1.   Meeting People, Exchanging Greetings and Taking Leave

2.   Introducing Yourself (and others) in Different Contexts

3.   Telephone Etiquette

4.   Thanking and Responding to Thanks

Unit II: Poetry

1.   Mending Wall – Robert Frost

2.   La Belle Dame sans Merci – John Keats

3.   Sympathy – Paul Laurence Dunbar

4.   The Man He Killed – Thomas Hardy

5.   My Grandmother’s House – Kamala Das

6.   The Bangle-Sellers – Sarojini Naidu

Semester-II

Unit I: Conversational Skills

1.   Anchoring, Elocution, Debates

2.   Presentations

3.   Effective Communication on Social Media

4.   Formal and Informal Communication

Unit II: Poetry

1.   The Happy Prince – Oscar Wilde

2.   A Cup of Tea – Katherine Mansfield

3.   The Homecoming – Rambindranath Tagore

4.   Refund – Fritz Karinthy