B.A-B.A English 3rd Sem (G-3 : Enriching Oral and Written Communication)(University of Pune, Pune-2013)
T.Y. B.A. EXAMINATION, 2013
ENGLISH
General Paper III
(G-3 : Enriching Oral and Written Communication)
(2008 PATTERN)
Time : Three Hours Maximum Marks : 60
N.B. :—
(i) All questions are compulsory.
(ii) Figures to the right indicate full marks.
1. (A) Answer any three of the following in about 20 words each : [6]
(i) What is formal communication ?
(ii) What is upward communication ?
(iii) What is horizontal communication ?
(iv) What is verbal communication ?
(v) What is body language ?
(B) Attempt any three of the following : [6]
(i) Identify the contrast of sounds in the following pairs of words :
(a) major—measure
(b) talk—walk
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(ii) Mark the accent :
(a) many
(b) market
(iii) Identify the weak forms in the following sentences :
(a) I was happy.
(b) He is my brother.
(iv) Mark intonation in the following sentences :
(a) I live in an apartment.
(b) Is the water cool ?
(v) How would you express thanks in the following situation ? Someone just gave you a birthday gift.
2. (A) Attempt any three of the following : [6]
(i) Form two words with each of the following suffixes :
(a) .......ment
(b) .......ful
(ii) Form antonyms with the help of prefixes :
(a) use
(b) honest
(iii) Identify the part of speech of the underlined words :
(a) They stepped on the carpet.
(b) Keep the lights on, please.
(iv) Identify the acceptable combinations of the words below :
(a) glare at/glare towards
(b) equitable rights/equal rights
(v) Fill in the blanks with appropriate word :
(a) He ran .................. (fast/fastly)
(b) He .................. works (hard/hardly)
(B) Attempt any three of the following : [6]
(i) Write a set of two words each closely related in meaning to the following words :
(a) connect
(b) cloth
(ii) Match the following synonyms :
A B
(1) mandatory (a) craved
(2) wreck (b) annually
(3) longed (c) destroy
(4) yearly (d) compulsory
(iii) Frame sentences by using the following phrases :
(a) bear with
(b) bear away.
(iv) Coin as many words as possible from the letters used in the words below :
(a) Football
(b) laboratory.
(v) Identify whether the meaning of the underlined word is literal or figurative :
(a) It is a cold day.
(b) She gave me a cold look.[4301]-360 5 P.T.O.
3. Attempt any two of the following : [12]
(a) Imagine that you are facing an interview for the post of Junior College Teacher in a college. Anticipate any six questions and
write down your responses to them.
(b) Imagine that you are going to interview an industrialist. List down ten questions you would ask.
(c) A group of three friends is having a discussion on the malpractices related to elections. Write a dialogue anticipating two utterances for each of the participants.
4. Attempt any two of the following : [12]
(a) Write a paragraph of about 100 words on any one of the following topics :
(i) Enviroment
(ii) Fashions.
(b) Write a review of the TV serial you watched recently.
(c) Summarise the following passage :
A new-born baby appears to be sleeping almost all the time. But as it grows up, its pattern of sleep changes. It sleeps[4301]-360 6
less and less and stays awake longer, playing or crying or babbling. By adulthood, the pattern is well established; people sleep eight or nine hours a day. Well, not quite that long, for our sleep habits have changed over the last century or so, and we do
not get as much sleep as we ought to. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, people went to bed early, soon after it was dark. They had nothing to do in the evenings, and their sleep habits were fixed by the alternation of day and night, light and darkness. They woke up by daybreak and, thus, they could get nine hours of sleep on an average.
5. (A) Attempt any two of the following : [6]
(i) Punctuate the following passage :
there is an enemy beneath out feet an enemy the more deadly for its complete impartiality it recognizes no national
boundaries no political parties everyone in the world is threatened by it the enemy is the earth itself when an earthquake strikes the world trembles the power of quake is greater than anything human beings themselves can produce[4301]-360 7 P.T.O.
(ii) Rearrange the jumbled sentences below to form well-written paragraph :
(1) There are direct intellectual effects : the dispelling of many traditional beliefs, and the adoption of others suggested by the success of the scientific method.
(2) Then, chiefly as a consequence of new techniques, there are profound changes in social organization, which are bringing about corresponding political changes.
(3) The effects of science are various, very different kinds.
(4) Then there are effects on a technique in industry and war.
(5) Finally, as a result of the new control over the environment which scientific knowledge has conferred,
a new philosophy is growing up, involving a changed conception of the place of human beings in the universe.
(iii) Explain the use of any one of the punctuation marks given below :
(a) question mark
(b) comma
(B) Attempt any two of the following : [6]
(i) Match the following expressions of telephonic conversation :
A B
(a) hello (i) I am sorry, he is not in the office
(b) is this 9899508999 ? (ii) you are welcome
(c) can I speak to Mr. Jog ? (iii) good morning
(d) then I would like to leave (iv) yes, it is a message
(ii) Complete the telephonic conversation below :
A : Hello, is this 9965886045 ?
B : ................. can I help you ?
A : ................. ?
B : Miss. Nandini is busy in a meeting.
A : Can I leave ................. ?
B : Yes, ................. .
(iii) Write a transcript of a power-point presentation you would make on ‘Computer Literacy
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