2019
(November)
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
(Arts)
Course: 301
(New Course)
Full Marks: 80
Pass Marks: 32/24
Time: 3 hours
The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions
UNIT – I
(Essay Writing)
1. Answer any one of the following: 5
a) What are the essential features of a good paragraph?
b) Write a paragraph on any one of the following:
1) Social Media.
2) College Library.
3) Unemployment.
2. Write an essay on any one of the following topics: 10
a) Protection of Environment.
b) Discipline and Student Life.
c) Population Explosion.
d) Visit to a Place of Historical Interest.
UNIT – II
(Conversational English)
3. Supply the missing utterances to complete the following dialogue: 5
Riya: Hello Ananya. I am meeting you after such a long time. What have you been doing?
Ananya: (1) ____________________________________
Riya: Same here. I have completed my MBA and presently working with an MNC at Gurgaon.
Ananya: (2) ____________________________________
Riya: That’s good news. I have been searching for somebody to share my flat. If you move in, it would be excellent.
Ananya: (3) ____________________________________
Riya: (4) _______________________________________
Ananya: (5) ____________________________________
4. Write a dialogue on any one of the situations given below. [Each person must have at least five turns of dialogue]: 10
a) You have recently watched a movie. Discuss it with a friend of your pointing out the positive and negative aspects of the movie.
b) Your college has planned an educational trip to New Delhi. You seek your father’s permission highlighting the benefits of such a trip.
5. Read the situation given below and write 2 sentences each in response to any five of them: 2x5=10
a) You go to a book shop in search of a book. The book is not available and you enquire about the availability of the book in the near future.
b) You are holding a farewell party for one of your friends. Invite another friend to the farewell party.
c) You are being interviewed for a job. Introduce yourself and also briefly emphasize your educational qualification.
d) You are at the railway station enquiring about the present status of the Rajdhani Express.
e) There is an emergency situation at home. You have to dial 108 and call an ambulance.
f) You are Secretary of the youth club and have to persuade a friend to join the club.
UNIT – III
(Common Mistakes in English)
6. Correct the following sentences: 1x5=5
a) One of my friends live in Guwahati.
b) The floods have caused many damage.
c) It is raining for four days.
d) He has finished to write his examination.
e) The Prime Minister visited Guwahati shortly.
7. Complete the following sentences by filling in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the verbs given in the brackets: 1x5=5
a) The train _________ (leave) before he reached the station.
b) She _________(watch) TV when her father came home.
c) He _________ (not like) to get up early in the morning.
d) Where _________ (be) my scissors?
e) They _________ (go) away from this place last year.
8. Complete the following passage by filling in the blanks with appropriate prepositions: 1x5=5
The temperatures have been _________ the rise regularly _________ the past few days. If this continues, then _________ August end the scales will show somewhere around 480C. The only way out is _________ plant more trees or else live _________ a perpetual inferno.
9. Fill in the blanks with the correct alternatives: 1x5=5
a) I want your _________ regarding this matter (advice / advise)
b) He lent me a _________ of money last year. (sum / some)
c) The tailors will _________ the dress if required. (altar / alter)
d) _________ down whatever thoughts you have while reading this book. (Pan / Pen)
e) He gave a _________ on my shoulder. (pat / pet)
UNIT – IV
(Grammar in Communication)
10. Give antonyms of any five of the following: 1x5=5
Affirm; mild; illuminate; prosperity; frequent; praise; compulsory.
11. Give one word substitutes for the following: 1x5=5
a) The original inhabitants of a place.
b) A medicine that destroys the effect of poison.
c) One who can live on both land and water.
d) A remedy for all diseases.
e) Handwriting or print that is incapable of being read.
12. Use any five of the following idioms in sentences: 1x5=5
At home in; at the eleventh hour; man of letters; make a clean breast of; in the long-run; laughing stock; to move heaven and earth.
13. Rearrange the following sentences in the proper order to form correct sentences: 1x5=5
a) For the poor she decided people to work.
b) Discovery of fire man’s wild animals that more powerful him made has.
c) Taken have responsibility I the nursing my of mother.
d) Widen travelling a part of education is and your mental horizon it can.
e) An orderly discipline and systematic manner doing things in is the habit of.
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