TS Gurukul PGT English Syllabus 2017

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 English

Section-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 Societies

Paper-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

7)Prepositions;
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; 

13) Direct and Indirect Speech;
14) Infinitives; gerunds; participles; 

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;

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.

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

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.

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