English - I

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Intensive practice to improve listening comprehension for both daily and academic needs: the focus shall be on development of active listening habit and utilizing oral information in a variety of contexts.

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English - I

Subject Code: ENG 201

Course Title: English - I

Course No: ENG 201

Nature of Course: Theory & Practical

Full Marks: 100

Pass Marks: 50

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description

English 201 course focuses on English language and communication skills required for general as well as professional contexts.

Course Objective

After completing this course, students will be able to read texts written in various disciplines and discourses express themselves using varied forms in both speech and writing adapt content to purpose, context and audience understand and use appropriate style and tone conduct general and business communications work successfully in a team match audience with the purpose and medium of communication use presentational and rhetorical techniques for effective communication gain disciplinary and interdisciplinary insights

Course Contents

I. Core English
Unit 1.
1. What are you like?
2. Customs and traditions
3. Looking ahead
4. Into the wild
5. Health matters
6. Would you believe it?
7. Traces of the past

Unit 2.

8. The big issues
9. It’s a crime
10. Buying and selling
11. Entertainment or art
12. A changing world
13. Writing guide
14. Grammar reference
II. Genres and Disciplines

Unit 3
1. New Nepal
2. Shooting an Elephant
3. The Parrot in the Cage
4. Advertise Your Business
5. The Company Man
6. Light My Lucky
7. The Etiquette of Freedom
8. The Rights of Animals
9. Professions for Women
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10. The Stronger
11. Here I Love You

Unit 4
12. Girl
13. Popular Mechanics
14. The Fly
15. Jest and Earnest
16. The Hundredth Dove
17. The Lunatic
18. The Clock Tower
19. Beauty
20. All-Pervading Poetry
21. The Allegory of the Cave
22. Not the Non-Existent

Text Books

Gude, Kathy, & Mary Stephens. Cambridge English Advanced Result: Student’s Book with
Online Practice. Oxford UP, 2018.
Lohani, S., compiler & editor. Visions: A Thematic Anthology. Kathmandu: Vidyarthi Pustak
Bhandar, 2020.

Reference Books

Carter, Ronald, and Michael McCarthy. Cambridge Grammar of English. Cambridge UP, 2006.
Larsen-Freeman, Diane, and Marti Anderson. Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching. 3
rd ed., Oxford UP, 2011.
Klarer, Mario. An Introduction to Literary Studies. 3rd ed., Routledge, 2013.
Abrams, M.H., and G.G. Harpham. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 11th ed., Cengage Learning,
2014.
Minot, Stephen, and Diane Thiel. Three Genres: The Writing of Literary Prose, Poems and
Plays. 9th ed., Pearson, 2014.
Harmer, Jeremy. The Practice of English Language Teaching. 5th ed., Pearson, 2015.
Pearson Education. Longman Business English Dictionary. 2nd ed., Longman, 2018.
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of Current English. 10th ed., Oxford UP, 2020