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ASSIGT{MENT 20T2-13 {For July 2012 and January 2013}

Foundation Course in English FEG-02

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FOUNDATTON COURSE IN E|{GLSTH-2 (FEG-02)

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You are required to do one assignment for the Foundation Course in English-O2. It is a Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA) and carries 100 marks. It covers four blocks of t course. Aims: The TMA is primarily concerned with assessing your writing and assessing your writing and study skills. You should not reproduce chunks of information from the units but effectively use the skills that you may have acquired during the course of study to compose your answers. These assignments aim to teach as well as to assess your performance.

Guidelines: You

will be required to write a

parugraph, an essay, reports, make notes and

summarize.

As in day-to-day life, planning is important in attempting the assignment as well. Read the assignment carefully; go through the units on which the questions are based; jot down some points regarding each question and then re-arrange them in a logical order. Pay attention to your introduction and conclusion. The introduction must tell you how to interpret the given topic and how you propose to develop

it. The conclusion

must summarize your views on the topic.

Make sure that your answer:

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c)

d)

is logical is written in simple and comect English does not exceed the number of words indicated in your questions is written neatly and clearly

that it is compulsory to submit your assignment before you can take the Term End Examination. Also remember to keep a copy of your assignment with you and to Please remember

take a receipt from your Study Centre when you submit the assignment. The completed assignment should be sent to the Coordinator at the Study Centre allotted to you. Last date for submission of assignment. For June Exam For December Exam

31't March 30th September

Good Luck!

Note: Remember the submission of assignment is precondition of permission of appeuring in examinstion. If you huve not submitted the ussignment in time yoa will not be ullowed to appear in exaneinution.

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Foundation Course in English-2 (FEG-02) Assignment

Course Code: FEG-02 Assignment Code: FEG-2/TM A/2012-13

Max. Marks: 100

All Questions are cornpulsory

1.

Read the following passage and make notes in the appropriate formal.

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'fhe peryretual cycle of change which has created the face of the Earth, with all its rugged and lascinating variety, usually happens too slowly to be noticed. But occasionally it is rapid and '','iolent. Volcanoes clisgorge molten lava, earthquakes rip open the landscape, landslid", .uriy u.,"uy whole mountainsides. Then human beings become aware of the awesome forces that are shaping their planet. These forces are fuelled by three powerful sources of energy

- heat fronr within the Ealth, heat lrom the Sun, and the force of gravity. Every landform in the world has been shaped by these ttu.ee energy sources. 'fhe continents that drift across the surface of the globe, setting off volcanoes and carthquakes and building mountains. are driven by heat from the Earth's interior which has a temperature of about 5000"C (9000'F). Most of this heat is created by the breakdoun of radioactive elements. Earth is unique amotlg the planets of the Solar System in having liquid water on the surface. Anci water has a major role in shaping the planet. The warmth of the Sun evaporates u'ater frorn seas and iakes. The vapour rises and condenses to form clouds and then falls again as rain and snow. It is then that its landscaping powers begin, weathering rocks and washing arn'ay the loose material. or glinding down the landscape under the power of a glacier. The Sun's heat also produces the rn'ind and the waves that scour the land.

The third force - gravity - causes the tides, rvhich nibble away at the edges o1'continents, and landsiides. which alter the shape of mountains. Under the influence of gravity. rain worlis irs *.ay downlvards as streams and rivers, carving the terrain. On its journey, it carries fragments oi rock and sand to be deposited on the ocean floor. And over thousands of years more rock rvhicli mav then be buckled and lifted up by movement of the Earth's curst to fomr ne.w mountains. {'Scur"r,r*: R-eader's $igest, Diseovering th* Wonders ol Cur Worlcf" A guide ta hlature's Seenic lvfaivels.]

2.

Write a sumnlary of the passage given above and suggest an apprcpriate title

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topics:

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Laughter is the best medicine. Travel broadens the mind. Learning a new language. Mcbile phone: curse or blessing?

4.

\fi'rite a composition of 250-300 words based on any one of the pictures given below: (20)

a paragraph

of 100-150 words on any one of the following

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You are a member of a committee formed to develop parks in.vour city. Write a report in (20) 250 words of a meeting held to discuss this project.

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Wdte

a report

for

a newspaper

in about 250 words of a music concert held in your city. Qa)

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