Table of Contents ESSAYS 1 Indian Crowds , Nirad C Chaudhuri 2 On Saying Please , AG Gardiner 3 The Great Exhibition , MK Gandhi 4 On the Edge of Oblivion , Ian Wood 5 Athletes of the Beijing Olympics and Wishes from Pope, Arghya Ganguly (A report in the Times of India) 6 Golden Eye , Arghya Ganguly (Times of India) 7 Less Pain, More Gain: Bangalore , Arghya Ganguly (Times of India)
POETRY 1 On His Blindness , John Milton 2 Daffodils , William Wordsworth 3 She Walks in Beauty , Lord George Gordon Byron 4 Ozymandias , Percy Bysshe Shelly 5 Ode to a Nightingale , John Keats 6 Maud , Alfred Lord Tennyson 7. The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet, William Shakespeare 8 The Death of Sohrab , Mathew Arnold 9 Ode to Solitude , Alexander Pope 10 The Tyger , William Blake 11 Nursing Song , Anonymous 12 Soon , Vikram Seth
SHORT STORIES 1 Shri Sai Satcharitra (The Miracles of Shirdi Sai Baba), Govind Raghunath Dabholkar (Alias Hemadpant) 2 The Dollfs House , Katherine Mansfield 3. The Three Dancing Goats (A folk tale), Anonymous 4 Fortune Teller , Karel Capek 5 The Preaching, George Eliot
GRAMMAR 1 Parts of Speech * Noun: Kinds, Numbers, Gender, Case * Verb: Kinds of Verbs, Transitive and Intransitive: Usage of will and shall, would and should, can and could * Forms of Verbs: Gerund, Verbal Noun, the Participle, the Voice, the Mood * Adverb: Different kinds and their order, Degrees of Comparison. * Pronoun: Kinds and usage * Adjective: Kinds, Degrees of Comparison, and its uses * Preposition: Kinds of Preposition * Conjunction: Kinds and importance in usage * Interjection and their relevance in a sentence
2 Grammar Application * The article: Kinds, the Infinitive forms and their uses * Structure of sentences: Parts, their kinds Classification of Simple, Complex and Compound forms and their usage * Reported speech: Direct and Indirect and their transformation from one to other
3 Punctuations and Pronunciations * Figures of Speech * Punctuation * Phonetic Symbols and Pronunciation
4 Vocabulary * Synonyms and Antonyms * Idioms and Phrases * Proverbial Sentences and Some Important Proverbs * Single Word Substitution
5 Writing * Letter Writing * Note Taking * Precis Writing * Nurses Notes * Anecdotal Records * Diary Writing * Reports on Health Problems * Resume/Curriculum Vitae * Expansion
6 Dialogue Writing * Imaginary dialogue between two just born children in a maternity home
7 Spoken English * Giving Oral Report * Discussion Between Student Groups * Debate on Subjects of National Importance and International Importance
8 Important Topics * Some Important Specialists in the Medical Field * Fast Word Writing from A to Z * Dissertation, Compilations, Research Methodology * Bibliography * Index