BEGE-141 English Topics Covered
Block 1 – Varieties of Prose
- Unit 1 – Understanding Prose: An Introduction
- Unit 2 – Descriptive Prose
- Unit 3 – Narrative Prose
- Unit 4 – Expository Prose
Block 2 – Forms of Prose: Short Stories and Essays
- Unit 1 – ‘Misery’– Anton Chekhov
- Unit 2 – ‘Mother’–Judah Waten
- Unit 3 – ‘Shooting an Elephant’– George Orwell
- Unit 4 – ‘On Seeing England for the First Time’–Jamaica Kincaid
Block 3 – Biography and Autobiography
- Unit 1 – Biography and Autobiography: An Introduction
- Unit 2 – Gandhi: Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth
- Unit 3 – Bertrand Russells’s Autobiography
- Unit 4 – Lytton Strachey’s–Queen Victoria
Block 4 – Diary, Speech, Letters, Travelogues
- Unit 1 – Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl
- Unit 2 – Margaret Laurence’s My Final Hour
- Unit 3 – Nehru’s Letters to Indira Gandhi: ‘The Quest of Man’
- Unit 4 – Travelogue: Travels by a Lesser Line — Bill Aitken