Polytechnic  Syllabus for Lecturers in English

POLYTECHNIC SYLLABUS

GENERAL STUDIES AND MENTAL ABILITY

I. General Science – Contemporary developments in Science and Technology and their

implications including matters of every day observation and experience, as may be expected of

a well-educated person who has not made a special study of any scientific discipline.

II. Current events of national and international importance.

III. History of India – emphasis will be on broad general understanding of the subject in its

social, economic, cultural and political aspects with a focus on AP Indian National Movement.

IV. World Geography and Geography of India with a focus on AP.

V. Indian polity and Economy – including the country’s political system- rural development –

Planning and economic reforms in India.

VI. Mental ability – reasoning and inferences.

VII. DISASTER MANAGEMENT (Source : CBSE Publications)

1. Concepts in disaster management and vulnerability profile of India / State of A.P.

2. Earth quakes / Cyclones / Tsunami / Floods / Drought – causes and effects.

3. Man made disasters - Prevention strategies.

4. Mitigation strategies / Mitigation measures.

ENGLISH

•          Writers and Texts

• William Shakespeare Hamlet, Tempest

• John Milton Paradise Lost-Book 1 and 9

• William Wordsworth “Immortality Ode”, Tintern Abbey

• John Keats “Ode to a Nightingale”, “To Autumn”

• Robert Browning “My Last Duchess”, “The Last Ride Together”

• Charles Dickens David Copperfield

• TS Eliot “The Waste Land”, Murder in the Cathedral

• GB Shaw Saint Joan

• Virginia Woolf “A Room of One’s Own”

• Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot

• William Golding Lord of the Flies

• Robert Frost “Home Burial”, “The Road Not Taken”

• Eugene O’Neill The Hairy Ape

• Toni Morrison Beloved

• Mulk Raj Anand Untouchable

• AK Ramanujan “Love Poem for a Wife”, “Small-Scale

Reflections on a Great House”

• Girish Karnad Hayavadana

• Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children

• Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart

• Margaret Atwood Edible Woman

• AD Hope “Australia”, “Crossing the Frontier”

• Bessie Head A Question of Power

• English Language Teaching

1) ELT in India : (History and status of English in India; English as Second Language,

English as Foreign Language, and English as Global Language).

2) Methods and Approaches : (Grammar Translation method, Direct method, Audio-Lingual

method; Structural approach, Communicative language teaching)

3) Teaching of Language Skills : (Teaching of Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing

Skills; Teaching of Grammar and Functional English; Teaching of Vocabulary; Classroom

techniques; Use of authentic materials)

4) Testing and Evaluation : (Principles, Types, Objectives of testing and evaluation)

5) Phonetics and Phonology; Syntax and Structure.