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.
