TS Gurukul PGT English Syllabus
Scheme and Syllabus for the post of Post Graduate Teacher in
Residential Educational Institution Societies
Preliminary (Screening Test)
Scheme of Examination
| Written Examination (Objective Type) | No. of Questions | Duration (Minutes) | Marks | |
| Paper | General Studies, General Abilities and Basic Proficiency in English | 150 | 150 | 150 |
Syllabus
Paper: I General Studies, General Abilities and Basic Proficiency In EnglishSection-I: General Studies
1. Current Affairs – Regional, National & International.
2. Indian Constitution; Indian Political System; Governance and Public Policy.
3. Social Exclusion; Rights issues such as Gender, Caste, Tribe, Disability etc.and inclusive policies.
4. Society Culture, Civilization Heritage, Arts, and Literature of India and Telangana
5. General Science; India’s Achievements in Science and Technology
6. Environmental Issues; Disaster Management- Prevention and Mitigation Strategies and Sustainable Development.
7. Economic and Social Development of India and Telangana.
8. Socioeconomic, Political and Cultural History of Telangana with special emphasis on Telangana Statehood Movement and formation of Telangana state.
Section-II: General Abilities
9. Analytical Abilities: Logical Reasoning and Data Interpretation.
10. Moral Values and Professional Ethics in Education.
11. Teaching Aptitude.
Section – III: Basic Proficiency in English
i) School Level English Grammar:
Articles; Tense; Noun & Pronouns; Adjectives; Adverbs; Verbs; Modals; Subject-Verb Agreement; Non-Finites; reported speech; Degrees of Comparison; Active and Passive Voice; Prepositions;
Conjunctions; Conditionals.
ii) Vocabulary:
Synonyms and Antonyms; Phrasal Verbs; Related Pair of Words; Idioms and Phrases; Proverbs.
iii) Words and Sentences:
Use of Words; Choosing Appropriate words and Words often Confused; Sentence Arrangement, Completion, Fillers and Improvement; Transformation of Sentences; Comprehension;
Punctuation; Spelling Test; Spotting errorsProverbs.
Scheme of Main Examination for the post of Post Graduate Teacher in Residential Educational Institution Societies
| Written Examination (Objective Type | No. of Questions | Duration (Minutes) | Marks | |
| Paper – I | Pedagogy of Concerned | 150 | 150 | 150 |
| Paper – II | Subject Discipline Knowledge/Concerned Subject | 150 | 150 | 150 |
| Total | 300 |
PGT English Main Examination Syllabus
Main Examination Syllabus for the post of Post Graduate Teacher in Residential Educational Institution SocietiesPaper-I: Pedagogy of English Language
1. The Nature of language and its Historical Development; First Language; Second Language and Third Language; Different Types of Languages; Mother Tongue; Languages of Different Professions; Importance of languages across School Curriculum; Contributions of Creative Writers.
2. Values, Aims, and Objectives of Teaching Languages
3. Child Development; Psychology of Teaching and Learning Languages; Language, Thinking and Creativity.
4. Language Curriculum: Construction, Organization and Development
5. Language Skills; Planning for Effective Instruction in Language Classrooms: Different Plans and Designing Learning Experiences.
6. Approaches, Methods, and Techniques of Teaching Languages with special reference to School Content (Prose/Fiction /Poetry/Drama/Essay)
7. Teaching and Learning Resources and Designing Instructional Material for Languages; Language Labs; Teaching Aids; Textbooks; ICT in Language Teaching and Learning
8. Measurement and Evaluation in Languages: Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE); Tools and Techniques of Evaluation; Achievement and Diagnostic Tests.
9. Learning Disabilities/Difficulties and Education of Exceptional/ Disabled Children in Languages
10. Language and Everyday Life; Language Issues and Policies. National and State Curriculum frameworks.
Paper –II: English Language & Literature
| Part-A I. Reading Comprehension of unseen passage. II. Grammar and Vocabulary 1. Parts of Speech; 2. Subject and predicate 3.Types of sentences - transformations 4. Conjunctions (Linkers; connectors; cohesive devices); 5. Verbs (Regular and Irregular) and modals; 6. Time and Tense | |
8) Adverbs – types and their order in sentences;
9)Adjectives including Degrees of Comparison and also Quantifiers;
10) Articles – Determiners.
11) Clauses; (Noun Clauses – Adjective clauses; adverbial clauses);
12)Voice;
15) Phrasal verbs; Idioms; prepositional phrases ; (Noun phrases; verb phrases; adverbial phrases); 16) Forming Questions and Question Tags.;
17) Correction of Sentences.;
18) Figures of Speech;
19)Antonyms;
20) Synonyms;
21) Homophones;
22) Homonyms ;
23) Affixation;
24) Spelling;
25) Vocabulary in context;
26) Proverbs;
27) One word substitutes;
20) Synonyms;
21) Homophones;
22) Homonyms ;
23) Affixation;
24) Spelling;
25) Vocabulary in context;
26) Proverbs;
27) One word substitutes;
28) Composition: Paragraph, essay, expansion, précis, Letter writing, message, notice, article and report writing.
III. Aspects of pronunciation:
1. Vowel and consonant Sounds and phonemes
2. Stress: word and sentence stress.
3. Intonation: Four basic patterns of intonation.
IV. Punctuation.
III. Aspects of pronunciation:
1. Vowel and consonant Sounds and phonemes
2. Stress: word and sentence stress.
3. Intonation: Four basic patterns of intonation.
IV. Punctuation.
Part-B
Literature:) Comprehension of
1) Literary prose passage and
2) A poem
II) Study of Literary forms:
1) Poetry: Sonnet, ode, elegy, Ballad, Lyric, Dramatic Monologue
2) Prose:
a) Drama (Structure, Characters, dialogues, Soliloquy, tragedy, comedy, Tragi-comedy)
b) Fiction: - (point of view, setting atmosphere; style; Technique of Narration.)
c) Essay Detailed study of English Literature from 1798 to 1900 with special reference to Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, John Keats, Shelly, Lord Byron, Charles Lamb, Charles Dickens, William Hazlitt, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Mathew Arnold, George Eliot,
Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin.
III. Poetry
Prose
Drama / Play
The Candidates are expected to have a thorough knowledge of the above-mentioned poets, essayists, novelists and dramatists and their respective works mentioned at the level that is expected of a student of literature.
TS Gurukul PGT English Syllabus
1) Literary prose passage and
2) A poem
II) Study of Literary forms:
1) Poetry: Sonnet, ode, elegy, Ballad, Lyric, Dramatic Monologue
2) Prose:
a) Drama (Structure, Characters, dialogues, Soliloquy, tragedy, comedy, Tragi-comedy)
b) Fiction: - (point of view, setting atmosphere; style; Technique of Narration.)
c) Essay Detailed study of English Literature from 1798 to 1900 with special reference to Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, John Keats, Shelly, Lord Byron, Charles Lamb, Charles Dickens, William Hazlitt, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Mathew Arnold, George Eliot,
Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin.
III. Poetry
| Name of the Poet | Title |
| Sarojini Naidu | In The Bazaars of Hyderabad |
| Rw Emerson | A Nation’s Strength |
| RL.Stevenson | My Shadow |
| Alfred Tennyson | Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | The Cry of Children |
| Rabindranath Tagore | My Mother; Freedom. |
| C A Bowels | The River |
| Gabriel Okara | Once Upon A Time |
| Medora Chevalier | Or Will The Dreamer Awake? |
| Dr. SurayaNasim | Abandoned |
| Khalil Gibran | On Friendship |
| Shiv K.Kumar | Mother’s Day |
| William Wordsworth | Anecdote For Fathers |
| Edwar Lear | The Duck And The Kangaroo |
| Harry Behn | Trees |
| Lily Usher | Grabbing Everything On The Land |
| HarindranathChatopadhyaya | The Earthen Goblet |
| Don Marquis | A Spider And A Fly |
Prose
| Name of the Essayist/ Writer/Novelist | Title |
| APJ Kalam | Wings Of Fire |
| RK.Narayan | Swami And Friends |
| Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist |
| Jonathan Swift | Gulliver Travels |
| Sudha Murthy | 1.Gender Bias 2. How I Taught My Grandmother ToRead And Other Stories |
| Isaac Asimov | Robots And People |
| O.Henry | After Twenty Years |
| R.K. Laxman | The Gold Frame |
| E.V.Lucas | The Face On The Wall |
| Oscar Wilde | The Nightingale And The Rose |
| Satyajit Ray | BepinChoudhury’s Lapse of Memory |
| A.G. Gardiner | On Umbrella Morals |
| Stephen Leacock | How To Live To Be 200 |
| George Orwell | Animal Farm |
Drama / Play
| Name of the Writer | Title |
| J.B. Priestley | Mother’s Day |
| William Stanley Houghton | The Dear Departed |
| Cedric Mount | The Never Never Nest |
| Fritz Karinthy | The Refund |
| G.B.Shaw | Saint Joan |
| Shakespeare | Julius Caesar |
The Candidates are expected to have a thorough knowledge of the above-mentioned poets, essayists, novelists and dramatists and their respective works mentioned at the level that is expected of a student of literature.
TS Gurukul PGT English Syllabus
