General English III (E2EN31)

 Academic Year 2025-2026 (Odd Semester)

Syllabus

General English III (E2EN31)

Unit I

ACTIVE LISTENING

Short Story

1.1 In a Grove – Akutagawa Ryunosuke (Translated from

Japanese by Takashi Kojima)

1.2 The Gift of the Magi – O’ Henry

Prose

1.3 Listening – Robin Sharma

1.4 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech – Wangari Maathai

Unit II

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

Prose

2.1 Telephone Conversation – Wole Soyinka

2.2 Of Friendship – Francis Bacon

Poem (Motivational/ Narrative)

2.3 Ulysses – Alfred Lord Tennyson

2.4 And Still I Rise – Maya Angelou

Unit III

COPING WITH STRESS

Poem

3.1 Leisure – W.H. Davies

3.2 Anxiety Monster – Rhona Mc Ferran

Readers Theatre

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

3.4 Where there is a Will – Mahesh Dattani

Unit IV

Grammar

4.1 Phrasal Verbs & Idioms

4.2 Modals and Auxiliaries

4.3 Verb Phrases – Gerund, Participle, Infinitive

Unit V

Composition/ Writing Skills

5.1 Official Correspondence – Leave Letter, Letter of

Application, Permission Letter

5.2 Drafting Invitations

5.3 Brochures for Programmes and Events

ESSAYS