2019
(December)
ENGLISH
Paper: AECC - 1
COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH
Full Marks: 40
Pass Marks: 16
Time: 2 hours
The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions
UNIT – I
(Communication : Theory
and Types )
1. (a) Define communication. Discuss David Berlo’s SMCR model of
communication. 2+3=5
Or
(b) What is formal communication? Discuss its advantages and
disadvantages. 2+3=5
2. (a) Discuss the barriers to effective communication. 5
Or
(b) What is inter-personal communication? Discuss its features. 2+3=5
UNIT – II
(Speaking Skills)
3. (a) What is a monologue? Discuss the Characteristics of a good
monologue. 2+3=5
Or
(b) Write a dialogue between Nripen and Sujata – two college
students when they met for the first
time in the Youth Festival of Dibrugarh University. (Use fictitious names of colleges,
if necessary) 5
4.(a) Discuss the skills required for participating in a group
discussion effectively. 5
Or
(b) How to prepare a good public speech? Elaborate. 5
UNIT – III
(Reading and
Understanding)
5.(a) What is close reading? Discuss the steps involved in close
reading. 2+3=5
Or
(b) Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that below:
It seemed the little girl was born to sing. Her mother often
recalled that when she was a baby, she
would carry her piggyback to community singing events on festival days. As soon
as the singers took up a
tune and gradually when their collective voices began to swell in volume and harmony,
her daughter would twist herself this way and that and start singing her own
version of the song, mostly consisting of loud shrieks and screams. Though
amusing at first, her daughter’s antics irritated the spectators and singers as
well, and often, she had to withdraw from
the gathering in embarrassment. What the mother considered unreasonable
behavior in a child barely a year old, was actually the first indication of the
singing genius that she had given birth/
to.
When Apenyo, as the little girl was called, could walk and talk a
little, her mother would take her to Church on Sundays because she could not be
left alone at home. On other days she was left in the care of her grandmother
when the mother went to the fields; but on this day there was no one to take
care of her as everyone went to Church. When the congregation sang together Apenyo
would also join, though her little screams were not quite audible because of
the group singing. But
whenever there was a special number, trouble would begin; Apenyo would try to sing
along, much to the embarrassment of the mother. After two or three such mortifying
Sunday outings, the mother stopped going to Church altogether until Apenyo
became older and learnt how to behave.
Questions:
(i) What did Apenyo’s mother often recall? 1
(ii) Why did Apenyo’s mothe take her to Church on Sundays? 1
(iii) Why did she stop going to the Church? 2
(iv) Find a word in the passage which means “foolish, outrageous or amusing
behavior”. 1
6. Answer any one of the following questions:
(a) What is paraphrasing? How is it different from summarizing? 2+3=5
(b) Write a summary of the following passage: 5
Having been elected to the executive committee of the Vegetarian
society, and made it a point to
attend everyone of its meetings, but I always felt tongue-tied. It often
happened that just when I had mustered up courage to speak, a fresh subject
would be started. This went on for a long time throughout my stay in England.
Even when I paid a social call, the presence of half a dozen or more people
would make me dumb.
My last effort to make a public speech in England was on the eve of
my departure for home. But this
time too I only succeeded in making myself ridiculous. I invited my vegetarian
friends to dinner in the
Holborn Restaurant. In arranged with the manager of the Holborn Restaurant to provide
a strictly vegetarian meal. The vegetarians hailed the new experiment with
delight. In the west, dinners are celebrated with great music and speeches. Speeches,
therefore, there had to be. When my
turn for speaking came, I stood up to make a speech. But I could not proceed beyond the first sentence. My memory entirely
failed me and in attempting a humorous speech I made myself ridiculous. “ I
thank you, gentlemen, for having kindly responded to my invitation,” I said abruptly, and sat down.
It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never
completely overcame it. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences.
My hesitancy in speech, which was once an annoyance, is now a pleasure. Its
greatest benefit has been that it has taught me the economy of words.
(c) What do you understand by equivalence in translation? 5
Or
What are the difficulties in translating from source language to
target language?
UNIT – IV
(Writing Skills)
7.(a) What is documenting? What are the steps involved in
documenting? 2+3=5
Or
(b) Prepare a report on the observation of Independence Day at your
college this year. (Use ABC as
the name of your college.) 5
8. (a) Make notes from the following passage using headings,
sub-headings and recognizable abbreviations: 5
The quest for freedom cannot be suppressed. It arises from a recognition
of the inestimable dignity and value of a person, and it cannot fail to be
accompanied by personal commitment. Revaluations are made possible by the
commitment of brave men and women inspired by a different, and ultimately more profound and powerful, vision:
the vision of man as a creature of intelligence and free will, immersed in a
mystery which transcends his own being and endows him with the ability to
reflect, choose, and gain wisdom and virtue.
Freedom is the measure of man’s dignity and greatness. Living the
freedom sought by individuals is a great
challenge to man’s spiritual growth and to the moral vitality of nations. The basic
question we must all face today is the responsible use of freedom.
Freedom is not simply the absence of tyranny or oppression. Nor is
freedom a license to do whatever we like. Freedom has an inner logic which
distinguishes it and ennobles it: freedom is ordered to the truth, and is
fulfilled in man’s quest for truth and in man’s living the truth. Detached from
the truth about the human person, freedom deteriorates into license in the
lives of individuals, and,
in political life, it becomes the caprice of the most powerful and the arrogance
of power.
Far from being a limitation upon freedom or a threat to it, reference
to the truth about the human person, truth universally knowable through the
moral law written on the hearts of all is, in
fact, the guarantor of freedom’s future.
Now it is time for a new hope, which calls us to expel the paralyzing
burden of cynicism from human life. Inspired by the example of all those who
have taken the risk of freedom, can we not recommit ourselves also to taking
the risk of peace?
It is one of the great paradoxes of our time that man, who began
this century with a self-confident assertion of his coming age and autonomy,
approaches the end of the twentieth century fearful of himself and fearful for
the future.
Or
(b) A portion of the embankment of a river in your locality was
damaged in the recent flood. Draft a letter to the Deputy Commissioner of your
district describing the difficulties faced by the people of the area and
requesting him/her to take steps for restoration of the damaged embankment.
(Write a fictitious name of a
district and do not mention the name of your college or your name anywhere in
the letter.)
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