Syllabus for the Exam of teacher English to be Conducted by HPRCA

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Syllabus for the Exam of teacher English to be
Conducted by HPRCA

1. ENGLISH OF POST GRADUATION LEVEL AS PER ESSENTIAL
   QUALIFICATION:
   a) Advanced Grammar and Usage:
    Parts of Speech (Functional Use).
    Tense and Aspect.
    Voice
    Narration (Direct and Indirect Speech).
    Modals.
    Subject–Verb Agreement.
    Transformation of Sentences.
    Error Detection and Correction
   b) Vocabulary and Usage:
    Synonyms and Antonyms.
    One-word Substitutions.
    Idioms and Phrases.
    Spellings.
    Word Formation (Prefixes and Suffixes).
   c) Linguistics:
    Phonetics and Phonology (IPA Symbols).
    Word Stress and Sentence Stress.
    Intonation Patterns.
    Morphology (Word Formation Processes).
    Syntax (Basic Sentence Structure and Types).
   d) History of English Literature (Medieval to Renaissance)
    Poetry and Drama before Chaucer.
    The Age of Chaucer.
    The Renaissance.
    Elizabethan and Jacobean Age.
    University Wits.
    Major dramatists including William Shakespeare.
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   e) Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Literature
    Metaphysical Poetry.
    Cavalier Poets.
    The Age of Milton.
    Restoration Drama.
    The Age of Pope and Dr. Johnson.
   f) Romantic and Victorian Literature:
    Romanticism and the French Revolution.
    Major Romantic Poets.
    Victorian Poetry.
    Victorian Novel.
    The Pre-Raphaelite Movement.
   g) Modern Literature:
    Modern Poetry.
    War Poets.
    Stream of Consciousness Technique.
    Major Modern Poets including T.S. Eliot.
    Twentieth-Century Drama.
    Realistic and Poetic Drama
   h) Indian Writing in English:
    Poetry: Rabindranath Tagore, Kamala Das & Nissim Ezekiel
   Focus Areas: Indian sensibility in English poetry, Confessional and modern
   poetic trends & Themes of identity, nation, and individuality.
    Fiction: R. K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, Anita Desai, Amitav
   Ghosh & Arundhati Roy.
   Focus Areas: Social Realism, Partition and Post-Independence Concerns,
   Diaspora and Globalization, Feminist Perspectives in Fiction
    Drama: Girish Karnad & Vijay Tendulkar.
   Focus Areas: Myth and History in Modern Indian Drama & Social Conflict
   and Contemporary Themes.
   i) Literary Criticism and Theory (Introductory Level)
    Plato.
    Aristotle.
    Neoclassical Criticism.
    Romantic Criticism.
    New Criticism.
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    Feminist Criticism.
    Marxist Criticism.
    Postcolonial Criticism
2. SUBJECTS OF 01 YEAR B.Ed:
    Methods and Approaches (Grammar Translation Method, Direct Method,
   Communicative Approach).
    Teaching of Prose, Poetry, and Drama.
    Teaching of Grammar and Vocabulary.
    Teaching of LSRW Skills.
    Lesson Planning.
    Assessment and Evaluation.
    Use of ICT in English Teaching.
3. GENERAL AWARENESS
   (a) General knowledge: General Knowledge including General knowledge of
   Himachal Pradesh.
   (b)Current Affairs .
   (c) Everyday Science .
   (d) Logical Reasoning .
   (e) Social Science (10th standard).
   (f) General English (10th standard).
   (g) General Hindi (10th standard).

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