Punjab Technical University 2006 B.Sc Information Technology -IT 1st COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH - Question Paper

COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH
IBSITS-101(0)
INT Bsc (IT) - Semester (2096)

Time: 3 Hours Max Marks:75

Note: Part A consists of Fifteen (15) ques. and is compulsory. Attempt any 9 (9) ques. from part B.

Part A
a. What is a verb? Why it is used?
b. Why do we use pronouns in the English Language?
c. What is a Pronoun? Why it is used in English Language?
d. What are synonyms? provide examples?
e. What are Antonyms? provide example.
f. What is a proverb?
g. What are idioms? provide examples.
h. What is active voice?
i. How is role playing important in Business Communication?
j. Change the subsequent phrases into indirect narration

a. Minu says to Rina ,’I will go for picnic today’.
b. Rahul says to his teacher/’I am not to blame, as Seema is the 1 who is talking’.

k. Give the synonyms of the subsequent words:

a. Alien
b. Elegent
l. Give the antonyms of the subsequent words:

a. industrious
b. natural


m. What is précis?
n. Mention 2 things that 1 must not to while attempting a comprehension passage?
o. What is snippet writing?


Part B
a) What is an adjective? elaborate the various kinds of adjectives? discuss with example.
b) Write a note on role playing?
c) What is a noun? elaborate the various kinds of nouns? discuss with examples.
d) Make phrases with the subsequent idioms:

a hoping against hope
b in the nick of time
c out of date
d put one’s foot down
e in black and white
e) discuss the subsequent proverbs:

a A stitch in time saves time
b Cut your coat according to your cloth
c Empty vessels make the most sound
d Rome was not built in a day.
e Better late then never

f) Write a snippet on , The role of advertising today.
g) Explain the active and the passive voice with examples.
h) Explain the definite and indefinite articles with examples.
i) What are the rules that to be followed while writing a paragraph?
j) What are the rules to be observed while writing a précis?
k) What are the things that a person going for an interview must keep in mind?
l) What are the rules that are to be followed while attempting a comprehension passage?

The ancient civilization of India grew up in a sharply demarcated sub-
Continent bounded by the world’s demarcated mountain range- the
Chain of the Himalyas, which, with its extensions to east and west , divides India from rest of Asia and the worls. The barrier , however, was at no time an insuperable 1 , and at all periods both traders and settlers have obtained their way over the high and desolate passes into India , while Indians have carried their commerce and culture beyond
Her frontiers by the identical route. India’s isolation has never been complete , and the effect of the mountain wall in developing her unique civilization has never been overrated.

The importance of mountains to India is not so much in the isolation that they provide her, as in the fact they are the source of her two great rivers. The clouds drifting northwards and westwards in the rainy season discharge the last of their moisture on the high peaks , where,fed by ever melting snow , innumerable streams flow south ward, to meet the great river system of the Indus and the Ganges. On their way they pass through small and fertile plateaus, such as the valley of Kashmir and Nepal, to spread on the Great plain.

Of the river sstems , that of the Indus , now mostly in Pakistan, had the earliest civilization , and gave its name to India. The ferrile plain of Punjab, watered by the 5 great tributatries of the Indus-the Jhelum , Chenab, Ravi , Beas and the sutlej had a high culture over 2 thousand year s before Christ, which spread down the lower course of the Indus as far the sea

Earning:   Approval pending.