Semesters I and II

Semester I
Lesson 1
SHORT FICTION: “The Curb in the Sky” by James Thurber ( essay)
: [ Ссылка ]
PRONUNCIATION: Consonant sounds— [ Ссылка ]

1. GRAMMAR: Noun: Noun’s collectives: [ Ссылка ]
2. Noun’s abstract: [ Ссылка ]
3. Nouns: [ Ссылка ]

VOCABULARY: Word roots, prefixes and suffixes—: [ Ссылка ]
1. SPELLING: Commonly misspelt words— : [ Ссылка ]

PUNCTUATION: Capitalisation— : [ Ссылка ]

Lesson 2
PROSE: “Happy People” by William Ralph Inge—,
1. Happy people part 1: [ Ссылка ]
2. Happy people part 2: [ Ссылка ]

PRONUNCIATION: Vowels: monophthongs— (A Complete video lesson )
[ Ссылка ]

GRAMMAR: Pronoun—
VOCABULARY: Word roots, prefixes, suffixes—
SPELLING: Forming antonyms using un- and dis—
1. [ Ссылка ]

PUNCTUATION: Capitalisation—: [ Ссылка ]

Lesson 3
POETRY: “A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—
1. [ Ссылка ]

PRONUNCIATION: Vowels: diphthongs
[ Ссылка ]
—GRAMMAR: Auxiliary verbs—
1. VOCABULARY: Homonyms, homographs, homophones— : [ Ссылка ]

4. Bathukamma—WRITING: Descriptive writing—SOFT SKILLS: Non- verbal communication and body language—: [ Ссылка ]


VALUE ORIENTATION: Actions speak louder than words

Lesson 4
DRAMA: “The Dear Departed” (an extract) by Stanley Houghton— : [ Ссылка ]
—SOFT SKILLS: Interpersonal skills— : [ Ссылка ]

Semester II

Lesson 5

SHORT FICTION: “A Visit of Charity” by Eudora Welty : [ Ссылка ]

—PRONUNCIATION: Plosive : [ Ссылка ]
—GRAMMAR: Non-finite verbs: [ Ссылка ]
1. VOCABULARY: Simile and metaphor—: [ Ссылка ]

SPELLING: Use of ie and ei: [ Ссылка ] —PUNCTUATION: Semicolon— CONVERSATION:
Asking for information— READING PASSAGE: Hyderabad—WRITING: Note making—SOFT SKILLS: Time management—VALUE ORIENTATION: Time and tide wait for no one

Lesson 6

1. PROSE: “Benares” by Aldous Huxley: [ Ссылка ]
5. PRONUNCIATION: Fricative : [ Ссылка ]
— GRAMMAR:
1. Adjective—VOCABULARY: Oxymoron and hyperbole : [ Ссылка ]
—SPELLING: Words ending in -able or -ible— PUNCTUATION: Colon and em-dash— CONVERSATION:
Requests— READING PASSAGE: Burrakatha—WRITING: Informal letters— SOFT SKILLS: Leadership—VALUE ORIENTATION: The pen is mightier than the sword

Lesson 7

POETRY: ‘Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley—
1. : [ Ссылка ]
PRONUNCIATION: Affricate and nasal : [ Ссылка ]: Article—: [ Ссылка ]
VOCABULARY:
Portmanteau words and loan words : —SPELLING: Words ending in -al, -ance, - ence, -
1. ic, -ity, and -ive—PUNCTUATION: Hyphen— CONVERSATION: Conducting a meeting: [ Ссылка ] READING PASSAGE: ‘Flower boat’ by Sunkara Ramesh—WRITING: Formal letters : [ Ссылка ] —SOFT SKILLS: Stress management : [ Ссылка ]
—VALUE ORIENTATION: Practice makes perfect

Lesson 8

DRAMA: Shakespeare Retold: Julius Caesar (extract): [ Ссылка ]
PRONUNCIATION: Approximant: — GRAMMAR: Adverb—VOCABULARY: Palindromes: [ Ссылка ]
SPELLING:
Derived forms of words : [ Ссылка ]
PUNCTUATION: Inverted comma— CONVERSATION:
Interview skills : [ Ссылка ] —READING PASSAGE: The handicrafts of Telangana— WRITING:
Formal letters—SOFT SKILLS: Etiquette and grooming : [ Ссылка ] —VALUE ORIENTATION:
Necessity is the mother of invention.

Sem - 1
The curb in the sky

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