General English Syllabus for B.Sc. Sem. V & VI 
                (EFFECTIVE FROM JUNE 2018 TILL FURTHER NOTIFICATION) 
                           SEM-V 
       UNIT-ITEXT   
       TEXT:A BOOK OF PLAYS ,(COMPILED BY ‘A GROUP OF EDITORS’) PUBLISHED BY ORIENT BLACK SWAN 
             1. A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL    -ANTON CHEKOV 
             2. REFUND   - FRITZ KARINTHY 
             3. THE RISING OF THE MOON  -LADY GREGORY   
       UNIT-II 
       (A) COMPREHENSION OF UNSEEN PASSAGE 
       (B) VOCABULARY BASED ON TEXT ( WORD AND MEANING)  
       UNIT-III 
         (A) CONDITIONALS 
         (B) TRANSLATION    ( BASED ON TEXT FROM ENGLISH TO GUJARATI/HINDI)      
       UNIT-IV 
       (A)  LETTER WRITING (FORMAL , COMPLAINT LETTERS) 
       (B) SYNONYMS  AND ANTONYMS                                          
       UNIT-V MCQ   FROM ALL THE ABOVE UNITS 
       Recommended Reading: 
       1. David Green: Contemporary English Grammar Structure and Usage 
       2. M L Tickoo and Subramanian: Intermediate Grammar, Usage and Composition 
       3.Wren and Martin – High School English Grammar and Composition 
       4. Raymond Murphy – Intermediate English Grammar 
       5. Martinet and Thomson – A Practical English(A) E-mail writing (seeking information about 
       educational programmes, jobs andvacancies, travel programmes, and products) Grammar 
       6. Homai Pradhan & N. S. Pradhan- Business Communication 
       7. A. Ashley- A Handbook of Commercial Correspondence –– OUP, New Delhi 
       8. Norman Lewis & Goyal Saab - Word Power Made Easy 
       9. Robinson, Netrakanti&Shintre - Communicative Competence in Business English 
       10. BOARD OF EDITORS- VIBRANT ENGLISH-ORIENT BLACK SWAN 
        
        
        
       PAPER STYLE  
       QUESTION-1 (UNIT-I) 
       WRITE SHORT ANSWER (ANY SEVEN OUT OF TEN ) 14 
       QUESTION-2 (UNIT-II) 
       (A)  COMPREHENSION OF UNSEEN PASSAGE  10 
       ( FIVE QUESTIONS SHOULD BE ASKED ) 
       (B)  VOCABULARY BASED ON TEXT (WORD MEANING) 4 
       QUESTION-3 (UNIT-III) 
       (A) FILL IN THE BLANKS BASED ON CONDITIONALS) 7 
       (B) TRANSLATION OF SENTENCES FROM ENGLISH TO GUJARATI/HINDI    7 
       (FROM THE TEXT ONLY ,ONLY SEVEN SENTENCES WILL BE ASKED) 
       QUESTION-4 (UNIT-IV) 
       (A)LETTER WRITING  OR LETTER WRITING  8 
       (B) SYNONYMS ANTONYM (OBJECTIVE TYPE OF QUESTIONS WILL BE ASKED)  6 
        
       QUESTION-5 
       MCQ   FROM I TO IV  UNITS   14 
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                           SEM-VI 
       UNIT-I 
       TEXT:A BOOK OF PLAYS ,(COMPILED BY ‘A GROUP OF EDITORS’)  
       PUBLISHED BY ORIENT BLACK SWAN 
       4. REUNION       -W.ST.JOHN TAYLEUR 
              5. THE NEVER- NEVER NEST 
              6. OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE, ACT -V 
       UNIT-II 
         (A) REFERENCE TO CONTEXT FROM THE PRESCRIBED TEXT 
         (B) VOCABULARY BASED ON TEXT                     
       UNIT-III 
       (A) Report Writing (Press Reports) 
       Suggested topics: Suggested topics: Accidents, Natural Calamities and the Celebration of 
       Festivals 
       (B) E-mail writing (seeking information about educational programmes, jobs andVacancies 
       andtravel programmes, ) 
        
       UNIT-IV 
       (A) ONE WORD SUBSTITUTE                           8 
       List of One-word Substitutes 
       1. Amicable 
       2. Anonymous 
       3. Autobiography 
       4. Bakery 
       5. Biography 
       6. Contagious 
       7. Contemporary 
       8. Dialysis 
       9. Ecology 
       10. Edible 
       11. Emigrant 
       12. Equanimous 
       13. Eternal 
       14. Extempore 
       15. Fable 
       16. Fatalist 
       17. Flexible 
       18. Glutton 
       19. Gullible 
       20. Honorarium 
       21. Hydrography 
       22. Illegal 
       23. Illegible 
       24. Illiterate 
       25. Immigrant 
       26. Impossible 
       27. Inaudible 
       28. Incredible 
       29. Inevitable 
       30. Invincible 
       31. Irritable 
       32. Maiden 
       33. Manuscript 
       34. Martyr 
       35. Meteorologist 
       36. Netiquette 
       37. Notorious 
       38. Obsolete 
       39. Octogenarian 
       40. Optimist 
       41. Ornithology 
       42. Pessimist 
       43. Pseudonym 
       44. Smuggling 
       45. Teenager 
       46. Teetotaller 
       47. Timid 
       48. Unanimous 
       49. Vegetarian 
       50. Volunteer 
       (B) (Cloze Test) (Intermediate Level with Multiple Choices)6 
       N.B.: The passage for Cloze Test should be of about 200 words aiming at testing the 
       students’ intermediate level of proficiency. It will contain six blanks each carrying one mark. 
       Three options for each blank must be given below the passage. 
       UNIT-V MCQ 
        
       Recommended Reading: 
       1. David Green: Contemporary English Grammar Structure and Usage 
       2. M L Tickoo and Subramanian: Intermediate Grammar, Usage and Composition 
       3.Wren and Martin – High School English Grammar and Composition