General English III – Assigned Texts for II B.Sc. Physics/Botany Students

Dear Students,

Listed below are the topics assigned for the General English III course for II B.Sc. Physics/Botany. Please click the VIEW button beside each topic to read the prescribed text.

Unit II - Poetry & Prose

2.1 “Telephone Conversation” – Wole Soyinka  |VIEW|

2.2 “Of Friendship” – Francis Bacon    |VIEW|

Unit III – Coping with Stress - Poem

3.1 “Leisure” – W. H. Davies    |VIEW|

3.2 “Anxiety Monster” – Rhona McFerran   |VIEW|

Readers' Theatre 

3.3 The Forty Fortunes: A Tale of Iran – Aaron Shepard   |VIEW|

3.4 “Where there is a Will” – Mahesh Dattani    |VIEW|

Unit V – Composition / Writing Skills 

5.1 Official Correspondence – Leave Letter, Letter of Application, Permission Letter

5.3 Brochures for Programmes and Events

Dr. K. Kaviarasu's Workload - 2025-2026 [ODD Semester]

 Dear Students, 

Kindly note the topics assigned to Dr.KK for the Odd Semester of the Academic Year 2025-2026:

III B.A., English (Major)
Core IX - Authors in Focus (5 Hrs)

Unit I

Aristotle – Life and Works
Introduction
De Anima (On the Soul) – Books I–III (Pages 1–49)
Poetics – Chapters 1–5

Unit II

Charles Dickens – Life and Works
Introduction
David Copperfield
Christmas Carols 

Unit III

Rabindranath Tagore – Life and Works
Gitanjali – Introduction 

Unit IV

Jane Austen – Life and Works
Sense and Sensibility 

Unit V

Dignifying Science: Stories About Women Scientists - Written by Jim Ottaviani and illustrated by Donna Barr et al.           

  

I B.A. English /  B.Sc., Mathematics (Part II)
GENERAL ENGLISH I (2 Hrs)

Unit III - Poem

     3.1 “The Things That Haven’t Been Done Before” – Edgar Guest

     3.2 “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” – Robert Frost

Unit III - Readers Theatre  

     3.3 “The Magic Brocade” – A Tale of China

     3.4 “Stories on Stage” – Aaron Shepard (Three Sideway Stories from Wayside School” Louis Sachar)

Unit V - Paragraph and Essay Writing

     5.1 Descriptive      5.2 Expository           5.3 Persuasive           5.4 Narrative 

 

I B.Com. (Part II)
GENERAL ENGLISH I (3 Hrs)

Unit I - Life Story

     1.1 I am Malala (Chapter 1) – Malala Yousafzai

     1.2 The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Ch 1, 2 & 3) - M. K. Gandhi

Unit I - Poem

     1.3 “Where the Mind is Without Fear” – Gitanjali 35 – Rabindranath Tagore

     1.4 “Love Cycle” – Chinua Achebe

Unit II - Poem

     2.1 “Nine Gold Medals” – David Roth

     2.2 “Alice Fell or Poverty” – William Wordsworth

Unit IV - Part of Speech

     4.1 Articles                 4.2 Noun                     4.3 Pronoun

     4.4 Verb                      4.5 Adverb                  4.6 Adjective              4.7 Preposition

 

II B.Sc., Physics/Botany (Part II)
GENERAL ENGLISH III (3 Hrs)

Unit II - Poetry & Prose

2.1 “Telephone Conversation” – Wole Soyinka

2.2 “Of Friendship” – Francis Bacon

Unit III – Coping with Stress - Poem

3.1 “Leisure” – W. H. Davies

3.2 “Anxiety Monster” – Rhona McFerran

Readers' Theatre 

3.3 The Forty Fortunes: A Tale of Iran – Aaron Shepard

3.4 “Where there is a Will” – Mahesh Dattani

Unit V – Composition / Writing Skills 

5.1 Official Correspondence – Leave Letter, Letter of Application, Permission Letter

5.3 Brochures for Programmes and Events

 Total Workload (5+1+3+7) = 16 Hrs

Dr. K. Kaviarasu's Workload - 2024-2025 [Even Semester]

 Dear Students, 

Kindly note the topics assigned to me for the Even Semester of the Academic Year 2024-2025:

Timetable 

	I	II	III	V	VI
I	II Phy/Bot		II English		II Maths
II	I Maths		I Commerce	II Maths
III			II Maths	II Phy/Bot	I Chem/Zoo
IV			I Maths		II English
V	II English	II Phy/Bot
VI	I Chem/Zoo			I English (II)	II English

II B.A., English (Major)
Core VII - WORLD LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION (4 Hrs)

Unit I

“Ulysses' Last Voyage” – Dante

“The Violet” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Tomorrow at Dawn” – Victor Hugo

“Your Children are not Your Children” – Khalil Gibran

 

Unit II

“If you Forget Me” – Pablo Neruda

“Pyramus and Thisbe” – Ovid

The Gypsies – Alexander Pushkin

“On Discontent” (from Satires) – Horace

“The Mystic Drum” – Gabriel Okara

“Two Dead Soldiers” – Jean Arasanayagam

 

Unit III

“Unpacking My Library” – Walter Benjamin

“On Friendship” – Montaigne

 

Unit IV

The Unnatural & Accidental Women – Marie Clements

Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett

 

Unit V

“A Very Oldman with Enormous Wings” – Gabriel Garcia Mårquez

“The District Doctor” – Ivan S. Turgenev

The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

I B.A., English / B.Com. (Part II)
GENERAL ENGLISH (1 Hr)

Unit II - DECISION MAKING

2.1 The Scribe – Kristin Hunter  (Short Story)

2.4 Snake – D. H Lawrence (Poem)

Unit III - PROBLEM SOLVING:

3.1 How I taught My Grandmother to Read – Sudha Murthy (Life Story)

Unit V - English in the Workplace

5.1 E-mail – Invitation, Enquiry, Seeking Clarification

        5.2 Circular

I B.Sc., Chemistry / Zoology /  Mathematics (Part II)

GENERAL ENGLISH II (2 Hrs)

Unit I – RESILIENCE

1.1 Don’t Quit – Edgar A. Guest (Poem)

1.2 Still Here – Langston Hughes (Poem)

1.3 Engine Trouble – R.K. Narayan (Short Story)

1.4 Rip Van Winkle – Washington Irving (Short Story)

Unit III - PROBLEM SOLVING

3.3 Wings of Fire (Chapters 1,2,3) by A.P.J - Abdul Kalam (Autobiography)

Unit IV - Tenses

4.1 Present

4.2 Past

4.3 Future

        4.4 Concord

 

II B.Sc., Mathematics  / Physics / Botany (Part II)

GENERAL ENGLISH IV (3 Hrs)

UNIT II - INTEGRITY

2.1. The Taxi Driver - K. S. Duggal (Short Story)

2.2. Kabuliwala - Rabindranath Tagore (Short Story)

2.3. A Retrieved Reformation - O. Henry (Short Story)

2.4. The Quality of Mercy (Trial Scene from ‘The Merchant of Venice') - William Shakespeare (Extract from a Play)

UNIT III - COPING WITH EMOTIONS: Poem

3.1. Pride - Dahlia Raviokovitch 

3.2. Phenomenal Woman - Maya Angelou 

UNIT  IV - Language Competency

4.1 Simple Sentences

4.2 Compound Sentences

4.3 Complex Sentences

4.4 Direct and Indirect Speech

Dr. K. Kaviarasu's Workload - 2024-2025 [Odd Semester]

Dear Students, 

Kindly note the timetable and topics assigned to me for the Odd Semester of the Academic Year 2024-2025:

Day\Hr	1	2	3	4	5
I	II P&B			III ENG
II	I MAT		III ENG
III			I ENG	III ENG	I MAT
IV	I COM	I ENG	I MAT
V		II P&B		III ENG	I COM
VI	II P&B	I COM			I MAT

Total Workload = 16 Hrs

Dr. K. Kaviarasu's Workload - 2023-2024 [Even Semester]

Dear Students, 

Kindly note the topics assigned to me for the Even Semester of the Academic Year 2023-2024:

Class	Hrs	Course Title	Course Code	Unit	Content
I English (Major)	2	SEC - IV DIGITAL LITERACY AND CONCEPTS		I	a.      Introduction to Digital Literacy and its types. b.      Digitizing Information.
				II	a.      Values and Ethics of Digital Literacy b.      Significance of Digital Literacy c.       Characteristics of Digital Literacy d.      The role of Language in Digital Literacy
				III	a.      Digital Media and its Types b.      Email, vlog, blog, twitter, Facebook, E-book.
				IV	a.      Digital Literacy in Education
				V	a.      Challenges in Digital Literacy

 

Class	Hrs	Course Title	Course Code	Unit	Content
II English (Major)	1	Core XII AMERICAN LITERATURE – II		V	Fiction a.       Native Speaker – Chang-Rae Lee b.      Nemesis – Philip Roth

 

Class	Hrs	Course Title	Course Code	Unit	Content
III English (Major)	1	Core XXIII LITERATURE AND PSYCHOLOGY		II	Novella a.       The Turn of the Screw – Henry James b.      The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
				III*	Short Story c.       “A Rose for Emily” - William Faulkner

 

Class	Hrs	Course Title	Course Code	Unit	Content
I Chemistry/Zoology (Part II)	1	GENERAL ENGLISH		IV - Part of Speech	LIFE STORY 1.1 Chapter 1 from Malala Yousafzai, I am Malala 1.2 An Autobiography or My Experiments with Truth (Ch.1,2&3) M. K. Gandhi POEM 1.3 Where the Mind is Without Fear – Gitanjali 35 – Rabindranath Tagore

 

Class	Hrs	Course Title	Course Code	Unit	Content
I Tamil (Part II)	2	GENERAL ENGLISH		II -  EMPATHY	POEM 2.1 Nine Gold Medals – David Roth SHORT STORY 2.3 The School for Sympathy – E.V. Lucas 2.4 Barn Burning – William Faulkner

 

Class	Hrs	Course Title	Course Code	Unit	Content
I B. Com. (Part II)	2	GENERAL ENGLISH		II -  EMPATHY	POEM 2.1 Nine Gold Medals – David Roth SHORT STORY 2.3 The School for Sympathy – E.V. Lucas 2.4 Barn Burning – William Faulkner

 

Class	Hrs	Course Title	Course Code	Unit	Content
II Tamil (Part II)	3	GENERAL ENGLISH – PROSE, POETRY, DRAMA, GRAMMAR, LANGUAGE STUDY AND ORAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS		III	FICTION The Dark Room (Abridged Version) - R. K. Narayan

 

Class	Hrs	Course Title	Course Code	Unit	Content
II English (Part II)	1	GENERAL ENGLISH – PROSE, POETRY, DRAMA, GRAMMAR, LANGUAGE STUDY AND ORAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS		III	FICTION The Dark Room (Abridged Version) - R. K. Narayan

 

Class	Hrs	Course Title	Course Code	Unit	Content
II Physics/Botany (Part II)	3	GENERAL ENGLISH – PROSE, POETRY, DRAMA, GRAMMAR, LANGUAGE STUDY AND ORAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS		I	PROSE 1. Character is Destiny – Dr Radhakrishnan. 2. How to be a Doctor? – Stephen Leacock. 3. How to win? – Shiv Kera 4. On doing Nothing – J. B. Priestley
				III	FICTION               The Dark Room (Abridged Version) - R. K. Narayan

Total Workload (10+2+1+3)= 16 Hrs

 

I UG – Part II English Slot – 2023-2024 (Even Semester)

Course Title

 

Slot	Content
I (1 Hr)	Unit I - RESILIENCE Poem 1.1 Don’t Quit – Edgar A. Guest 1.2 Still Here – Langston Hughes Unit IV - Tenses 4.1 Present; 4.2 Past
II (1 Hr)	Unit I - RESILIENCE Short Story 1.3 Engine Trouble – R.K. Narayan 1.4 Rip Van Winkle – Washington Irving Unit IV - Tenses 4.3 Future; 4.4 Concord
III (1 Hr)	Unit II - DECISION MAKING Short Story 2.1 The Scribe – Kristin Hunter 2.2 The Lady or the Tiger - Frank Stockton Unit V - English in the Workplace 5.1 E-mail – Invitation, Enquiry, Seeking Clarification
IV (1 Hr)	Unit II - DECISION MAKING Poem 2.3 The Road not Taken – Robert Frost 2.4 Snake – D. H Lawrence Unit V - English in the Workplace 5.3 Memo
V (1 Hr)	Unit III - PROBLEM SOLVING Prose life Story 3.1 How I taught My Grandmother to Read – Sudha Murthy Autobiography 3.3 How frog Went to Heaven – A Tale of Angolo Unit V - English in the Workplace 5.4 Minutes of the Meeting
VI (1 Hr)	Unit III - PROBLEM SOLVING Autobiography 3.4 Wings of Fire (Chapters 1,2,3) by A.P.J - Abdul Kalam Unit V - English in the Workplace 5.2 Circular

 

 

II UG – Part II English Slot – 2023-2024 (Even Semester)

GENERAL ENGLISH -- PROSE, POETRY, DRAMA, GRAMMAR, LANGUAGE STUDY& ORAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Slot	Content
I  (2 Hrs)	UNIT I - PROSE 1. Give us a Role Model – A.P.J.Abdul Kalam. 2. The Best Investment I have ever made – A.J. Cronin 3. Seven Good Habits – Robin Sharma 4. How much Land does a Man Need - Leo Tolstoy
II (1 Hr)	UNIT II – POETRY 1.Anxiety – A.K.Ramanujam 2. Incident on the French Camp – Robert Browning. 3. Stopping by the woods – Robert Frost 4. Still I raise – Maya Angelo
III  (1 Hr)	UNIT lll - DRAMA - Select scenes from William Shakespeare 1. Antony and Cleopatra – Death Scene of Cleopatra – Act V, Scene II 2. Macbeth – Sleep Walking Scene – Act V, Scene I 3. King Lear – Heath, before a Hovel – Act lll, Scene IV.
IV  (1 Hr)	UNIT IV – GRAMMAR 1. Transformation of Sentences 2. Synthesis of Sentences 3. Spot the Error
V (1 Hr)	UNIT V – LANGUAGE STUDY AND ORAL COMMUNICATION 1. Phonetics – Vowel sounds 2. Dialogue Writing 3. One word Substitution 4. Report writing.