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Table of Contents
Approaches To English Book – I
Prose, Grammar & Usage and Writing
I. THE ADVENTURE OF LEARNING
| Name of the Lesson | Link |
| TEXT A: Memories of Crossgates School (George Orwell) | Click Here |
| TEXT B : Make me a child again, Just for tonight. (Milton R.Stern) | Click Here |
| TEXT C : Confessions of a Misspent Youth (Mara Wolynski) | Click Here |
| TEXT D : A Time to Think (Edward de Bono) |
II. MEN AND WOMEN
| Name of the Lesson | Link |
| TEXT A: Portrait of a Teacher (Edmondo d’Amicis) | |
| TEXT B : My Mother [Excerpts] (Nirad C.Chaudhauri) | |
| TEXT C : Lucy Rowan’s Mother (Linda Blandford) | |
| TEXT D : The Jam Sahib of Newanagar (A.G.Gardiner) |
III. MODERN LIVING
| Name of the Lesson | Link |
| TEXT A: The Telephone (John Brooks) | |
| TEXT B : Saturday Morning Violence (Norman Provizor) | |
| TEXT C: New Superstitions for Old (Margaret Mead) | |
| TEXT D : Burnout (anonymous Newspaper Article) |
IV. FOOD FOR THOUGHT
| Name of the Lesson | Link |
| TEXT A: That Lean, Hungry Look (Suzanne Britt) | |
| TEXT B: What is Art? (Leo Tolstoy) | |
| TEXT C : Psychobabble (John Collee) | |
| TEXT D: The Case against Man (Isaac Asimov) |
V. THE WONDER WORLD OF SCIENCE
| Name of the Lesson | Link |
| TEXT A: ‘Cures’ for the Common Cold (Harold S.Diehl) | |
| TEXT B : Typing your own Blood (Scott Blackman) | |
| TEXT C : Some Differences (An extract from an anonymous newspaper article) |
VI. OUR ENVIRONMENT
| Name of the Lesson | Link |
| TEXT A: Our Environment (W.P.Cunningham and B.W.Saigo) | |
| TEXT B : Impact of Global Warming (Arvind Gupta) | |
| TEXT C : Human Environment (Indira Gandhi) |
VII. THE WORLD OF BUSINESS
| Name of the Lesson | Link |
| TEXT A: How to Write a Winning ‘Resume’ (Dick Irish) | |
| TEXT B : Some Samples of Advertisement | |
| TEXT C : On the Education of a Man of Business (Sir Arthur Helps) |
VIII. THE CHANGING WORLD
| Name of the Lesson | Link |
| TEXT A: The Year 2050-Reflections of a Futurist (Theodore J.Gordon) | |
| TEXT B : Powershift [Excerpts] (Alvin Toffler) | |
| TEXT C : The Mushroom of Death [Amalendu Bandopadhyay] |
Approaches To English Book – II
Poetry, Short Stories and One-Act Plays
POEMS
| Name of the Lesson | Link |
| I. Ecology (A.K. Ramanujan) | Click Here |
| II. Dog’s Death (John Updike) | Click Here |
| III. The Fog (W.H. Davies) | Click Here |
| IV. Girl Lithe and Tawny (Pablo Neruda) | Click Here |
| V. Ballad of the Landlord (Langston Hughes) | Click Here |
| VI. Indian Children Speak (Juanita Bell) | Click Here |
| VII. The Goat Paths (James Stephens) | Click Here |
| VIII. Of a Questionable Conviction (Jayanta Mohapatra) | Click Here |
| IX. Mirror (Sylvia Plath) | Click Here |
| X. Toads (Philip Larkin) | Click Here |
SHORT STORIES
| Name of the Lesson | Link |
| XI. The Rainbow – Bird (Vance Palmer) | Click Here |
| XI. The Eyes Have It (Ruskin Bond) | Click Here |
| XIII. The Little Wife (William March) | Click Here |
| XIV. The Happy Man (William Somerset Maughan) | Click Here |
| XV. The Tree (Manoj Das) | Click Here |
| XVI. The Watchman (R.K. Narayan) | Click Here |
ONE-ACT PLAYS
| Name of the Lesson | Link |
| XVII. Mother’s Day (J.B. Priestley) | Click Here |
| XVIII. The Eyes Have It The Unexpected (Ella Adkins) | |
| XIX. The Hour of Truth (Percival Wilde) | Click Here |