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B A Functional English (Revised syllabus 2014)
Oral Communication Practice
I Choose the correct answer.
1. Which among the following is not a part of communication process.
(A.Feedback,B. Sender, C. Channel, D. Physical Fitness) 2.Instruction given by the superior to subordinate is ...........
(A.Grape wine,B.Upward communication,C.Downward Communication,D.Extra Personal Communication)
3.Meditation is an example for ..............Communication
(A.Inter Personal,B.Intra Personal,C. Extra Personal,D. Mass )
4.Which among the following is not a barrier to communication
(A. Noice,B.Lack of attentive listening,C.Use of jargons, D.Social media )
5. Study of body language is known as .............
(A.Kinesis, B.Proximics, C.Performance, D.None of these )
6. Communication starts with :
(A. Message B. Sender C. Channel D. Feedback)
7. The two broad areas of communication are :
(a) Oral and written communication,b) Verbal and written communication
c) Verbal and non­verbal communication,d) Oral and non­verbal communication)
8. Which of the following are examples of oral communication?
a) Meetings, memos and presentations
b) Meetings, memos and performance reviews
c) Meetings, presentations and performance reviews
d) Reports, presentations and performance reviews
9.Which of the following are examples of written communication?
a) Letters and voicemail
b) Reports and email
c) Circulars and voicemail
d) Presentations and email
10. All the following are advantages of oral communication, except :
a) Control over receiver’s attention b) Immediate feedback c) Personal quality d)Conveying complex information
II. Answer in a sentence or two.
1. What do you mean by non verbal communication?
2. Give an example for verbal communication
3.Write any four uses of communication
4.Barriers of communication
5.What is grape wine communication?
6. Explain communication process.
7. Proximics
8. Advantages of written communication
9. Define communication
10.Upward communication
11.Informal communication
12.mass communication
13.Inter personal communication
14. intra personal communication
15.Formal communication
16.Feedback
III. Write short essay 1. Conversational Practice: Complete the discussion
Mother: Geetha wants to join western dance classes in the evening at RAACK academy. What do you think?
Father:
Mother: What timing shall we opt for?
Father:
Mother:
Father:
Mother:
2. Write a conversation between a client and a marketing executive
3. Draft a cookery demonstration
4. Review a film you recently watched
5. Write a conversation with your friend after attending the international film fest
6. Instruct a stranger on mobile how to get from the super market to your house.
7. Narrate one of your fondest childhood memories.
8 Describe a memorable birthday celebration.
9. If you won a million dollars, what might you change about your life?
10. If you learned you only had six months to live, how would you spend your time?
IV. Long essay
1. Draft an interview with a celebrity
2. Prepare a paper on Impact of media on youth
3. Write an essay on communication its nature, process , types and significance
4. Prepare a sport commentary of the last five minutes of a football/cricket match
5. Prepare an extempore on the representation of women in the new generation Malayalam films
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Assistant Professor
Dept of English
NSS College Manjeri
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OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS
1.Which code was used to send messages across the telegraph?
2 Who became the first person to send radio signals over long distances ?
3 Which period came to be known as the golden age of Radio?
4 What are the four key elements in speaking?
5 Why are direct quotes not used in a radio copy?
6 Name the greatest advantage of the television.
7 What is OB van?
8 What is HDTV?
9 Name two channels that depend on features alone.
10 What is PSA?
11. What is an e­journal?
12.What is DTH?
13 . What is Internet?
14 . What is FM and AM?
15. What is IPTV?
16. “ Dead Air” refers to ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­.
17. Radio commercials are known by the name of ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­.
18. What is an E­Book?
19. What is a story­board?
20. How is a long shot different from a middle shot?
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21. What is OS or Over the Shoulder Shot?
22. What is dubbing?
23. ISDN stands for _________________.
24. What is Voice over?
25. What is a lead?
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
1 Radio as a mass medium.
2 Explain the three kinds of radio interviews.
3 What are the strengths of television?
4. The greatest strength of the radio.
5.What is a bulletin?
6.What is the first duty of a reporter?
7.Name some characteristics of the radio.
8.Name some of the popular programmes on radio.
9. Who invented the television?
10. What is flash news?
11. What is spot reporting?
12. What is meant by convergent media?
13. The term ‘blog’ is derived from the word ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­.
14.What is meant by ‘Domain’?
15. Give an example of Public Service Announcement.
16. Name an e­Reader hardware.
17.What are electronic magazines known as?
18.What are blogs?
19. What is HDTV?
20.The advantages of an e­book.
21.Silence on the radio is called ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­.
22. Mention one or two characteristics of Television features.
23. What are called ‘briefs’?
24.What are the advantages of studio interviews?
25. Mention some of the guidelines for good radio news writing.
PARAGRAPH QUESTIONS
1 Explain the basics of TV scripting.
2.The different types of interviews on radio.
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3.Radio Jockeys.
4.Features of IPTV.
5.The basic features of an E­Journal.
6.How does one access an e­book?
7.The popularity of e­books.
8. What is blogging?
9.The structure of news on TV.
10. The basic features of web writing.
11. Radio Features.
12. Social networking.
13. Music programmes on radio and TV.
14. Live programmes on TV.
15. What is a ‘promo’?
Essay questions
1 FM Radio: Its popularity.
2 How do phone­in programmes on radio help the general public?
3 “Reading maketh a man”. In the context of e­books, journals in the digital world, how far is this true?
4. The role of phone­in­programmes on the general public.
5.Write an essay on radio as a mass medium.
6. How are documentaries different from features?
7. The new trends in television viewing.
8. Write an essay on social networking.
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Model Question Paper
Second Sem BA Functional English (Core)
FEN2B02 Communicative Grammar
Time 3 hrs marks 80
I Choose the correct answer (answer all the questions) (12x1=12) A1. He is accused __________ theft.
( A. In, B. Of, C.by, D.with )
2. Muhammed Rafi is a famous singer.’singer’ is an example of
( A.proper noun, B. Common Noum, C. Abstract noun, D. Collective Noun )
3. None of them scored above 90%,________?
(A.did they, B.didn’t they, C.are they, D.aren’t they)
4.I like ---------------- piano (play)
(A. play, B. Playing ,C,played, D.have been playing)
B5.There is ____________ milk left in the fridge. It should be enough for our coffee.
(A.
little, B. A little, C. Few, D. A few)
6. It ______ ( rain ) since nine o’ clock.
(A.is raining, B. rains, C.has been raining, D.Have been raining)
7. Switzerland is ________ European city.
( A. a, B. an, C. The, D. all of these)
8. She runs very quickly. Here ’very’ is an example of ____________
(A.adjective, B.adverb. C.Verb. D.None of these)
C 9. When will you arrive _______ the airport?
(A.
At, B. on, C. Over, D. Up)
10. My boss __________________sends a lot of greeting cards at Christmas.
(A. often, B. seldom, C. always, D. All of these)
11. Which among the following is not an auxiliary verb?
(A. an, B. are, C. may, D.shall )
12. Which among the following is a a personal pronoun?
(A.he, B. my, C. and, D.that )
II Answer any nine of the following:
(9x2=18)
13 .What do you mean by ‘indenting a passage’?
14. NP and VP
15. She says that she ______ ( send ) the letter a month ago; but, so far, she ______ ( not
receive ) any reply. She ______ ( think ) that her letter ______ ( be ) lost in the post.
16. He neither smiled spoke nor looked at me (put appropriate punctuation marks)
17.Hyphen
18. Nouns
19. What are the details required while writing the bibliography of a printed text?
20. The priest said, “don’t smoke”(convert into indirect)
21 Rose said to Jack, “I could swim when I was six”(convert in to indirect speech)
22. A gang of terrorists frightened the villagers. (Convert in to passive voice)
23. Semi colon
24. Abstract noun
II Write short essay on any of six the following:
25. Prepositions
26. Auxiliary Verbs
(6x 5=30)
27. Bibliography
28. Indefinite Articles
29. Sentence Structure
30. Footnotes and end notes
31. Question Tag
32. Adverbs
33. Pronouns
34. Simple past and Past participle
IV Write essays on any two of the following
35. Punctuation Marks
36. Articles
37. Tenses
38.What are the things to remember while preparing a research paper
(2x10=20)
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Model Question Paper
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FEN2CO2 INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
Time 3 hrs
Marks 80
I choose the correct answer (answer al! the questions)
A l.
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Indian poetry written by the Indians in English can be divided into three phases: the
imitative,theassimilativeand _.(experimental,expressionistic)
2. Gandhiji's "The Story of My Experiments with Truth" was originally written in Gujarati.
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Who translated it into English?
c) u
(Maganlal Gandhi, Mahadev Desai, Pyarelalji, Sushila Nayyar)
3. Rhyme and stanzaic forms were replaced by
(blank
_
in modern Indian English poetry.
verse, free verse,)
4. Who wrote ' Latter- Day Psalms'
( Shashi Deshpande , Tagore, Vikram Seth, Nissim Ezekiel)
B 5. Angoori
in 'The Weed' thinks that the weed was mixed with..
0. Who asked Gandhiji to eat meat in order to become strong?
z' Which word did Gandhiji spell wrong
as a
child when the school inspector gave
dictation to the class?
8. Who wrote preface to Tagore's Gitanjali?
C.' Match the
following writer to the year they have received Sahitya Academy Award
9. Amrita Pritam
I
10. kamala das
1
I . Shashi Deshpande
990
1
Award
983
1956
I 2. N
issim Ezekiel
1984
II Answer any nine of the following:
(9x2:18)
l3 Which are the different periods which categorize
the writings of Mahatma Gandhi?
I4. How do girls fall in love accordingto Angoori?
15. Why has the refrain been used in Tagore's
poem'The Palanquin Bearers'
? What does
it
convey?
16. What does the poet in 'Of mothers, among other things' smell upon the blackbone tree?
1
7. Why is Saroj ini Naidu called 'the Nightingale of India'?
18. What is the speaker's attitudes towards books in
19. Which are the various facets
'A Diff,erent History"?.
of love highlighted in Naidu's poetry?
20. How does Bhatt use words and phrases to convey how sacred trees and books are?
21 Which goddesses narnes are mentioned in ' A Different History'
?
22. What does the poet in 'Of mothers, among other things' mean by 'the handful of
needles'?
23, Name three post - independence poets who are preoccupied with the problem of roots.
24.How does the poet describe the movements of the bride in 'The Palanquin Bearers'
III Write
(6x 5:30)
short essay on any of six the following:
25. The Poetic Techniques used in
'A Different History'
26. Gandhi's account of his school days in
.
'My Experiments with Truth'.
27. Give an account of Tagore's poetic style.
28. Attempt a character- sketch of Angoori highlighting her innocence and simplicity
?
29. What are the various aspects of the rural Indian society that Amrita Pritam presents
through the story?
30. Elements of Indianness in Good bye Party for Miss Pushpa
T
S.
31, The Image of Woman in 'The Binding Vine'
32. Mysticism in Tagore's 'Leave This'
33. What were the pre - independence themes of Indian English poetry?
34. Comment on the title of the poem
IV Write
35.
essays on any
'A Different History'
two of the
'A Different History'
following
(2x10:20)
explores the relationship between cultural identity and language.
Discuss.
36. Give a detailed study of man- woman relationship in Shashi Deshpande's 'The Binding
Vine'
37. Write an essay on the growth and development of Indian English verse.
38. Discuss Social Realism presented by Indian women writers in English