English Osmania University BCOM 3rd Semester 2025-26 Notes

Unit 1
POETRY: On His Blindness by John Milton VIEW
PROSE: The Oldest of Animals (from The Jatakas) VIEW
GRAMMAR: Degrees of Comparison VIEW
VOCABULARY: Blend Words VIEW
SPEAKING: Greeting, Taking Leave, and Introducing Yourself VIEW
WRITING: Punctuation VIEW
CRITICAL READING: Standard-Setting and Accreditation for School Education VIEW
Time Management VIEW
Unit 2
POETRY To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship by Katherine Philips VIEW
PROSE: Allegory of the Caveby Plato VIEW
GRAMMAR Reported Speech VIEW
VOCABULARY Collocations VIEW
SPEAKING: Asking for and Giving Information VIEW
WRITING: Book and Film Review VIEW
CRITICAL READING: Framing a Shot VIEW
SKILLS: Problem-Solving VIEW
Unit 3
POETRY Autumn by John Clare VIEW
PROSE: The Iroquois Creation Story by David Cusick VIEW
GRAMMAR: Connectives and Linkers VIEW
VOCABULARY: Idiomatic Expressions VIEW
SPEAKING: Expressing Likes and Dislikes VIEW
WRITING: Digital Media VIEW
CRITICAL READING: Tourist Attractions VIEW
SKILLS: Conflict Resolution VIEW
Unit 4
POETRY: The Other Side of a Mirror by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge VIEW
PROSE: Man-Eating Tigers by Jim Corbett VIEW
GRAMMAR: Relative Pronouns VIEW
VOCABULARY: Figures of Speech I: Simile, Metaphor, Metonymy, Personification VIEW
SPEAKING: Expressing Agreement and Disagreement VIEW
WRITING: Advertising and Promotional Material VIEW
CRITICAL READING: The Banking System and Financial Stability VIEW
SKILLS: Stress Management VIEW
Unit 5
POETRY Passage to India (Section 2) by Walt Whitman VIEW
PROSE Professions for Women by Virginia Woolf VIEW
GRAMMAR Voice VIEW
VOCABULARY Figures of Speech II: Oxymoron, Irony, Pun, Alliteration VIEW
SPEAKING Describing People, Places and Events VIEW
WRITING Report VIEW
CRITICAL READING Football Tactics VIEW
SKILLS Presentation Skills VIEW

 

English Osmania University BCOM 2nd Semester 2025-26 Notes

Unit 1 [Book]
Poetry: Where the Mind is Without Fear – Rabindranath Tagore VIEW
Prose: The Overcoat – Gogol VIEW
Grammar: Concord VIEW
Vocabulary: Homonyms VIEW
Spelling: Silent Letters VIEW
Pronunciation: Phonetic Transcription VIEW
LSRW: Sequencing a Story VIEW
Writing: Formal and Informal Writing VIEW
Skills:
Motivation VIEW
Discipline VIEW
Unit 2 [Book]
Poetry: The Highwayman – Alfred Noyes VIEW
Prose: The Blue Light – Vaikom Muhammad Basheer VIEW
Grammar: Adjectives VIEW
Vocabulary: Homophones VIEW
Spelling: Doubling Consonants VIEW
Pronunciation: Minimal Pairs VIEW
LSRW: Tongue Twisters VIEW
Writing:
Diary Writing VIEW
Journal Writing VIEW
Skills: Interpersonal Skills VIEW
Unit 3 [Book]
Poetry: Mending Wall – Robert Frost VIEW
Prose: How It Feels to Be Colored Me – Zora Neale Hurston VIEW
Grammar: Determiners VIEW
Vocabulary: Homographs VIEW
Spelling: Spelling and Plurals VIEW
Pronunciation: Word Stress VIEW
LSRW: Odd One Out VIEW
Writing: Essay Writing VIEW
Skills: Teamwork and Collaboration VIEW
Unit 4 [Book]
Poetry: Praise Song for My Mother – Grace Nichols VIEW
Prose: Swan Song – Anton Chekhov VIEW
Grammar: Adverbs VIEW
Vocabulary: Heteronyms VIEW
Spelling: American and British Spellings VIEW
Pronunciation: Sentence Stress VIEW
LSRW: Just a Minute VIEW
Writing: Types of Essays VIEW
Skills: Emotional Intelligence VIEW

English Osmania University BCOM 1st Semester 2025-26 Notes

Unit 1
Sonnet 30: William Shakespeare VIEW
The Apology of Socrates: Plato VIEW
Word Roots VIEW
English Spelling I VIEW
Consonant Sounds I VIEW
Skimming VIEW
Guided Writing VIEW
Communication Skills VIEW
Unit 2
The Solitary Reaper: William Wordsworth VIEW
The Old Tiger and the Traveler: from the Hitopadesa VIEW
Pronouns VIEW
Affixes VIEW
Spelling for Formal Contexts VIEW
Consonant Sounds II VIEW
Scanning VIEW
Information Transfer VIEW
Verbal Skills VIEW
Unit 3
Frost at Midnight: Samuel Taylor Coleridge VIEW
Mr Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle VIEW
Verbs VIEW
Synonyms VIEW
English Spelling II VIEW
Vowels: Monophthongs VIEW
Intensive Reading VIEW
Note-Taking and Note-Making VIEW
Non-Verbal Skills VIEW
Unit 4
I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed: Emily Dickinson VIEW
To Build a Fire: Jack London VIEW
Tenses VIEW
Antonyms VIEW
Spelling VIEW
Verb Forms VIEW
Vowels: Diphthongs VIEW
Extensive Reading VIEW
Paragraph Writing VIEW
Confidence and Self-Presentation VIEW

English 2nd Semester Osmania University BBA 2025-26 Notes

Unit 1 [Book]
Poetry: Where the Mind is Without Fear – Rabindranath Tagore VIEW
Prose: The Overcoat – Gogol VIEW
Grammar: Concord VIEW
Vocabulary: Homonyms VIEW
Spelling: Silent Letters VIEW
Pronunciation: Phonetic Transcription VIEW
LSRW: Sequencing a Story VIEW
Writing: Formal and Informal Writing VIEW
Skills:
Motivation VIEW
Discipline VIEW
Unit 2 [Book]
Poetry: The Highwayman – Alfred Noyes VIEW
Prose: The Blue Light – Vaikom Muhammad Basheer VIEW
Grammar: Adjectives VIEW
Vocabulary: Homophones VIEW
Spelling: Doubling Consonants VIEW
Pronunciation: Minimal Pairs VIEW
LSRW: Tongue Twisters VIEW
Writing:
Diary Writing VIEW
Journal Writing VIEW
Skills: Interpersonal Skills VIEW
Unit 3 [Book]
Poetry: Mending Wall – Robert Frost VIEW
Prose: How It Feels to Be Colored Me – Zora Neale Hurston VIEW
Grammar: Determiners VIEW
Vocabulary: Homographs VIEW
Spelling: Spelling and Plurals VIEW
Pronunciation: Word Stress VIEW
LSRW: Odd One Out VIEW
Writing: Essay Writing VIEW
Skills: Teamwork and Collaboration VIEW
Unit 4 [Book]
Poetry: Praise Song for My Mother – Grace Nichols VIEW
Prose: Swan Song – Anton Chekhov VIEW
Grammar: Adverbs VIEW
Vocabulary: Heteronyms VIEW
Spelling: American and British Spellings VIEW
Pronunciation: Sentence Stress VIEW
LSRW: Just a Minute VIEW
Writing: Types of Essays VIEW
Skills: Emotional Intelligence VIEW
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