B.A. (Three Year) DEGREE EXAMINATION, OCTOBER 2018.
End Semester Examination
Third Semester
Part II
(Regular/Supplementary)
Paper III COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH
2 C 3131
Time 3 Hours Max. Marks 70
SECTION — A
Answer FIVE of the following questions. 10 50 Marks)
1. Differentiate between formal and informal letters.
Or
Write a letter to core computers asking for a price list and other conditions for
supply of computers.
2. Expand the idea
Time and tide wait for none.
Or
Make a precis of the following
It was in Germany and France that the first successful attempts were made
to produce an internal combustion engine driven by petrol. In England,
people were strangely timid about horseless vehicles. The earliest motor cars
were looked upon as mere jokes or as rather dangerous playthings by
everyone except their inventors. Some of them were single-seaters, others
would carry two or even three people but all were noisy, clumsy, queerlooking
things. When in 1888, Carl Benz, a German produced a threewheeled,
internal-combustion car, a great forward stride had been made. It is
easy to understand how the introduction of the petrol-driven engine
revolutionized road transport throughout the world. Until then the necessary
power to push a vehicle along could not be obtained without the cumbersome
tanks, boilers and furnaces of the steam engine. The internal-combustion
engine is light in weight and small in size by comparison; the fuel is burned
in it, so that there is no waste, like the dusty cinders of a coal fire.

3. Discuss the characteristics of a good essay.
Or
What are the features of expository writing?
4. Write an essay on press reports.
Or
Bring out the essence of writing for the media.
5. State the guidelines to be followed while writing a resume.
Or
Prepare a CV for the post of a Maths teacher in a High School. Experienced
candidates will be preferred. Apply within 10 days.
SECTION — B
Answer any FIVE of the following questions. 4 20 Marks)
6. Describe the types of letters.
7. rolling stone gathers no moss' Explain this.
8. What are the steps to writing a letter?
9. What are the features of report writing?
10. Prepare a resume of an accountant.
11. 'Appearances and deceptive'. Explain this.
12. Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper to complain about the menace of stary
dogs.
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