SYLLABUS
FOR WRITTEN EXAMINATION FOR PGT (ENGLISH)
Section A
READING
COMPREHENSION
Ability to comprehend, analyze and interpret unseen texts.
Three/four unseen reading passages may be set.
Section B
WRITING
ABILITY
Ability to express views/opinions in a coherent &
logical manner.
B1. One out of two tasks such as factual description of any
event or incident, a report or a process.
B2. Writing one formal letter. Letter types include
a)
Business or official letters(for making
enquiries, registering complaints, asking for and giving information, placing
orders and sending replies)
b)
Letter to the editors(giving facts/figures
suggestions / opinions on an issue of public interest) on contemporary /
current issues. c) Application for a job with cv.
B3. Writing personal opinion /views/stand in an
article/debate/speech etc on a given socio
– cultural issue –in a style/register suitable to the task
set. Issues could relate to
(a) environment
(b) education
(c) gender
discrimination
(d) economic
disparity etc..
Section C
GRAMMAR
AND USAGE
Ability to apply the knowledge of syntax and
grammatical items & use them accurately in the context provided .
The following grammatical structures will be tested through
error correction / editing/ gap filling / sentence completion / multiple choice
questions :
1. Determiners
2. Tenses
3. Clauses
4. Modals
5. Voice
Section
D
LITERATURE
Shakespeare’s works.
Romantic period (e.g.
Shelley, Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge etc)
19th and 20th Century American and English
Literature (e.g. Robert Frost, Hemmingway, Whitman, Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson
, Bernard Shaw, Arthur Miller etc. ) 
Modern Indian Writing in English (e.g. Anita
Desai, Vikram Seth, Nissin Ezekiel, K N
Daruwala, Ruskin Bond, R K Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand,
Khushwant Singh etc)
Modern
writing in English from other parts of the world e.g. Latin America / Africa /
Australia / South Asia
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