B.A. (Three Year) DEGREE EXAMINATION, OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2017.
(Yearly Examination Scheme)
End-Semester Examination
First Semester
(Under Common Core Syllabus)
(Regular/Supplementary)
Paper I COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH
2 C 1131
Time 3 Hours Max. Marks 70
SECTION — A
Answer any FIVE of the following questions. 4 20 Marks)
1. What is Morphology?
2. Write a note on the vowels.
3. How does listening help in comprehension?
4. What is Reading comprehension?
5. What is Debating?
6. What is syntax?
7. Write a note on syllable.
8. State what is elocution?
SECTION — B
Answer FIVE of the following questions. 10 50 Marks)
9. Write an essay on linguistics.
Or
Define semantics and pragmatics with examples.
10. Write an essay on speech mechanism.
Or
Write an essay on stress and stress in connected speech.

11. Write an essay on listening and its barriers.
Or
What are the features of conversational English?
12. Write a note on comprehension tools.
Or
Write an essay on sequencing of ideas.
13. What are the elements of effective speaking?
Or
Read the following passage and answer the questions.
Man is not divine, but is to become so. The status is something to be built by
good thoughts, good words and good deeds. The ego consists of the feelings
that burn us, of the passions we brood over, of the desires that hunt us and of
the decisions we make. These are the things that give life its dramatic
character. There is nothing absolute and permanent in them that is why we
can become something different from what we are, the reality of the person is
the creative will. When we deny the clamour of emotions, stay the stream of
things, silence the appetities of body, we feel the power of self within our own
being.
How should man become?
How is the state of being built?
Write the word from the passage which means unrestricted.
What makes life dramatic?
When do we feel the power of self?