EEG-01/ BEGE-101 Bachelor s Degree Programme (BDP) ASSIGNMENT (for July 2018 and January 2019 Sessons) EEG-01/BEGE-101 ELECTIVE COURSE IN ENGLISH School of Humantes Indra Gandh Natonal Open Unersty Madan Garh, New Delh-110 068 1
Electe Course n Englsh-01 (EEG-01)/(BEGE-101) Programme Code: BDP Course Code: EEG-01/BEGE-101/2018-19 Dear Student, You need to attempt one assgnment for the Electe Course n Englsh-01. Ths assgnment s Tutor Marked (TMA) and carres 100 marks. The TMA s concerned manly wth assessng your applcaton and your understandng of the course materal. It ams to teach as well as to assess your performance. Instructons: Before attemptng the assgnment please read the followng nstructons carefully. 1. Read the detaled nstructons about the assgnments gen n the Programme Gude for Electe Courses. 2. Wrte your Roll Number, Name, Full Address and Date on the top rght corner of the frst page of your response sheet(s). 3. Wrte the Course Ttle, Assgnment Number and the Name of the Study Centre you are attached to n the centre of the frst page of your response sheet(s). 4. Do not plan to take the termnal examnaton for the course f you hae not done the assgnment set for t frst. You wll not be permtted to do so. The top of the frst page of your response sheet should look lke ths: Course Ttle:. Assgnment No: Study Centre. Roll No.. Name: Address.................. Date:... 5. Use only foolscap sze paper for your response sheets and tag all the pages carefully. 6. Wrte the releant queston number wth each answer. 7. You should wrte n your own handwrtng. 8. Submsson: Remember to keep a copy of your assgnment wth you and to take a recept from your Study Centre when you submt the assgnment. The completed assgnment should be sent to the Coordnator at the Study Centre allotted to you. Last Date for Submsson of Assgnment s: Good luck! For June Exam - 31 st March For December Exam - 30 th September Note: Remember the submsson of assgnment s a precondton for appearng n the examnaton. If you do not submt the assgnment on tme, you wll not be allowed to appear n the examnaton. 2
Electe Course n Englsh Assgnment (EEG-01/BEGE-101) Answer all the questons. Assgnment Code: EEG-01/BEGE-101/TMA/2018-19 Max. Marks: 100 1 Read the followng poem carefully and answer the followng questons. Madam and Her Madam by Langston Hughes I worked for a woman, She wasn t mean But she had a twele-room House to clean. Had to get breakfast, Dnner, and supper, too Then take care of her chldren When I got through. Wash, ron, and scrub, Walk the dog around It was too much, Nearly broke me down. I sad, Madam, Can t be You re tryng to make a Pack-horse out of me? She opened her mouth. She cred, Oh no! You know, Alberta, I loe you so! I sad, Madam, That may be true But I ll be dogged If I loe you! 1a How dd Alberta feel about her work? Why dd she feel so? 2 1b How dd the madam feel about Alberta? 2 1c How dd Alberta feel about her madam? Pck out the lnes. 2 1e Pck out the words n the poem whch rhyme? What effect does the rhyme hae? 4 2 Defne the followng gng sutable examples: 10 Onomatopoea Smle Allegory Understatement Irony 3 What are the lterary deces used n the followng sentences / extracts. Indcate why you thnk the lnes represent a partcular lterary dece? 10 Death be not proud, though some hae called thee Mghty and dreadful, for thou art not soe. The Assyran came down lke a wolf on the fold. 3
The camel s the shp of the desert. O Hamlet! Thou hast cleft my heart n twan. Uneasy les the head that wears a crown. 4 Ge the meanng of the followng doms: 5 to hae an axe to grnd. to ht below the belt. to be a wet blanket to bury the hatchat st on the fence 5 Fll n the blanks choosng sutable phrases (n ther correct form) from the lst gen below. One s extra. 5 get oer, get at, get around, get through, get nto, get off We must try to...the truth. It s not easy to the examnaton. Cleer people can often the tax laws. Dd your daughter the fnal three places? Sooner or later you wll the shock. 6 Read the dalogues and decde whether they are: 10 1 ntatons and/or suggestons, 2 formal or nformal A: Let s go see a flm today. I m bored to death. B: No, not today. Hae to rush back home and drop Mum off at the staton. A: Why don t you drop n tomorrow eenng? We could hae a game of chess. B: Sounds great! Sx o clock, then. A: I suggest that you speak n Englsh as often as you can f you really want to mproe your language sklls. B: I d lke to, but so few of my frends really know any Englsh. A: Mr. Mahajan, I d lke to nte you for the release of my book at the Inda Internatonal Centre on Thursday next at 4:30 pm. I hope you wll brng your wfe along. B: Yes, ndeed! We ll be delghted! A: Please be punctual, the MD s comng. B: Of course, we are always on tme. You don t hae to say that! 7 Add prefxes/suffxes to the followng words to change them as drected. 5 sympathy (as erb) 4
lock (opposte sense) correct (as aderb) gft (as adjecte) smple (as noun) 8 Form nouns from the followng: 5 bured, ndcate, deastated, destroyed, wde 9 Complete the conersaton wth the correct forms of the erbs gen. One s done for you. 5 A: How dd you get your current job? B: It s a long story! I started workng (work) there as an assstant, and I spent months just. (fle) papers. I ddn t mnd. (do) that for a whle, but then I happened. (hear) about a new sales poston. I neer ntended. (be) a sales representate, but now I can t magne. (do) anythng else. 10 Complete the followng letter usng sutable prepostons of place. 10 A-48 Defence Colony New Delh-24 1 st June 2018 Dear Anta, I m sure you are surprsed to hear from me. If you remember, you were supposed to wrte to me about your comng Delh later ths month. I hope you haen t changed your mnd about stng me! Well, could you do somethng for me? When I stayed wth you.bhopal last month, I left two lbrary books behnd.your house. I thnk they are stll. that lttle cane table.the cupboard and the sewng-machne. If they are not..the table, then they must be my pllow the bed. Do look for them and brng them along when you come..delh. Don t forget to wrte and tell me when you are comng. I ll be..the staton to meet you. The tran usually arres on Platform 9. Look out for me, wll you? Hope to hear from you soon. Wth loe, Freda 11 Gen below are a few sentences wth blanks n them. In each case, fll n the blank n the sentences wth an approprate form of the word shown wthn brackets alongsde the sentence. The frst one s done for you. 10 When I asked John whether he would lke to go to a flm wth me last eenng, he repled n the negate. It s not always possble to.a person by hs looks. (judge) 5
x x x The lawyer defendng the accused n the case..that the accused had been forced by the polce to make statements whch were not true. (argue) Knd Solomon was known all oer the world for hs... (wse) It s absolutely..for one to hae a passport f one wants to go abroad. (necessary) The Presdent s to reject the mercy petton submtted by the terrorst receed support from one and all. (decde) The Traffc Polce Commssoner has ssued a statement that traffc regulatons wll be.enforced from now on. (strct) I don t thnk you are..to me at all. What s the pont n wastng my tme and energy speakng to you? sad Rajesh s father to hm. (lsten) Would you mnd your queston please? sad the speaker to a member of the audence. (repeat) In spte of the doctor s best efforts, Ram s condton to cause anxety. (contnue) s a much neglected but an essental part of communcaton. (lsten) 12 Fll n the blanks wth adjectes made from the nouns gen n the brackets: 5 The mango s a frut. (season) It was a serous accdent, but we had a..escape. (mracle) The..boy was fned Rs. 100. (mschef) Delh has many buldngs of.nterest. (hstory) Mohan s the most boy n the class. (ndustry) 13 Read the passage about Charles Dckens? Complete the sentences wth who, whch or whose. If who and whch are not necessary, leae the spaces blank. 10 Charles Dckens was an Englsh wrter.led from 1812 to 1870. The books.he wrote are read n many countres. Dckens.famly was ery poor, had to start workng when he was ten years old. In England at that tme, people.could not pay back ther debts were sent to prson. Ths happened to Dckens father,.frst name was John. Ths meant that Dckens,.was only a boy, had to st hs father n prson. Later, Dckens wrote books based on people he had known and places he had led n. In Dad Copperfeld he wrote about the sts.he pad to hs father n prson. In some of hs books he wrote about terrble schools lke the one.he went to hmself. In Oler Twst he wrote about chldren.were poor and sometmes orphans chldren.parents hae ded. 6