Syllabus of Business English: MGT 201

Course Details and Syllabus of Business English

Unit 1: Interdisciplinary Approach to Learning English (Weightage 40%)

This component of the course carries carry 40 marks.
1) Invitation
• Interactions (relating to the text) and Spotlights

2) Ancient Tales
• Yudhisthira’s Wisdom (Rao); The Brave Little Parrot (Martin); If Not
Higher (Peretz);
• Interactions (relating to the selected texts) and Spotlights

3) Education
• Why go to a University? (Nissani); Don’t Cut Down the Trees,
Brother Woodcutter (Sama); Surely You Are Joking, Mr. Feynman
(Feynman); A 1996 Commencement Speech (Rushdie);
• Interactions (relating to the selected texts) and Spotlights

4) Actions and Consequences
• The Parrot in the Cage (Paudyal); A Sound of Thunder (Bradbury);
• No Smoke from the Chimneys (Shrestha);
• Interactions (relating to the selected texts) and Spotlights

5) Television
• The Wretched Stone (Van Allsburg); TV Can be a Good Parent (Gore);
• Interactions (relating to the selected texts) and Spotlights

6) Crosscultural Bridges
• Marriage is a Private Affair (Achebe); Then and Now: Finding My Voice (Kim);
• Interactions (relating to the selected texts) and Spotlights

7) Cultural Anthropology
• Arranging a Marriage in India (Nanda); Life is Sweet at Kumansenu (Nicol);
• Interactions (relating to the selected texts) and Spotlights

8) The Human Condition
• The Lunatic (Devkota); How Sane Are We? (Chaudhary); Gaia (Lohani)
• Interactions (relating to the selected texts) and Spotlights

9) Natural Science
• The Making of a Scientist (Ramchandran); Scientific Inquiry: Invention and Test (Hempel);
• Interactions (relating to the selected texts) and Spotlights

10) Humor and Satire
• King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (Anon); Third Thoughts (Lucas) ; The Clock Tower (Sherchan);
• Interactions (relating to the selected texts) and Spotlights

11) Critical and Creative Thinking
• The Stub Book (de Alarcon); Mr. Know-All (Maugham); Keeping
• Errors at Bay (Russell); What Is Intelligence, Anyway (Asimov);
• Interactions (relating to the selected texts) and Spotlights

12) Love
• To His Coy Mistress (Marvell); The Telegram on the Table (Pradhan); Piano (Lawrence);
• Interactions (relating to the selected texts) and Spotlights

13) Life and Death
• The Great Answer (Oursler); Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
• Evening (Frost); A Tale (Koirala); Ethics (Pastan); “Where the Mind is without Fear’ (Tagore); New Year (Parijat);
• Interactions (relating to the selected texts) and Spotlights

Prescribed Book
Nissani, M., & S. Lohani. Flax-Golden Tales: An Interdisciplinary Approach
to Learning English. Shorter Edition. Kathmandu: Ekta,. (Sounds of
English and Stories and Poems on CD).

Unit 2: Functional English Language Texts

This component of the course carries carry 15 marks.
1) Paragraph to Short Essay
2) Descriptive Essays
3) Narrative Essays
4) Opinion Essays
5) Comparison and Contrast Essays
6) Cause and Effect Essays
Prescribed Book
Savage, Alice, and Patricia Mayer. Effective Academic Writing 2: The Short
Essay. Essay. Oxford: OUP 2005.

Unit 3: Reading for Writing

This component of the course carries carry 40 marks.

1) Introduction to the Topic, Reading, and Discussion
• Reflection
• Discussion
• Preparing to read
• Reading for overall meaning
• Reading for more detail

2) Personal Written Response
• Journals: a private audience
• Shared writing
• Feedback on student writing

3) Further Reading, Writing, and Discussion
• Preparing to read
• Reading for overall meaning
• Reading for more detail
• Helping each other understand
• Discussion: Critical thinking

4) Focus on Writing Skills
• Using other’s writing
• Meeting reader expectations
• Sentence grammar

5) Formal on Writing Skills
• Writing topics
• Generating ideas
• Expanding student point of view
• Initial drafts
• Review, revision, and assessment

6) Grammar and Punctuation
• Sentence Structure
• Relative Clauses
• Word Order
• Adjectives and Adverbs
• Punctuation
Complete Essay Assessment Checklist

Prescribed Book
Smalzer, W. R. Write to be Read: Reading, Reflection, and Writing. Second
Edition. Cambridge: CUP

Unit 4: Style

This component of the course carries carry 15 marks.
1) Choosing le most juste
2) Following and flouting conventions
3) Live and dead metaphors
4) Patterns of words in a text
5) Patterns of grammar in a text
6) The textual orchestration of patterns
7) The effects of the medium
8) Sequences of words and events
9) The selection of significant detail
10) Personal attitude, involvement and emotion
11) Style and ideology
12) A note on the poetic
13) Suggestions for projects
Prescribed Book
Haynes, John. Style. London and New York: Routledge, 1995.

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