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.