UTTARAKHAND OPEN UNIVERSITY, HALDWANI (NAINITAL)

Programme Name-B.A. Course Name- Advanced Reading and Wriing Skills Session -2012-13 Last Date of Submission: 15 May 2013

Programme Code- B.A. 12 Course Code- BAEL 102 Maximum Marks-40

Section A
Section A contains 08 short answer type questions of 5 marks each. Learners are required to answers 4 questions only. Answers of short answer-type questions must be restricted to 250 words approximately. 1. Differentiate between Simile and Metaphor giving examples. 2. Write a short note on Allegory. 3. Imagine you have to advice your younger brother or sister or a friend who is much younger to you about how to conduct himself or herself in life. In what five essential things will you say? 4. You are Pratap Singh, an MBBS student; you wish to interview Dr. Raghav Samant, a professor in the department of Anaesthesia at the Christian Medical College. Write an e-mail to Dr. Samant, seeking an appointment to interview him. 5. How does conversation help in writing an essay? 6. Expand the following idea into a paragraph: It is never too late to mend. 7. Vishwamitra Education Group, Nainital wants to start an engineering college in Dehradun but before going through the final move, they want to discuss various issues. Supposing yourself as secretary, write the minutes of the first meeting. Invdent agenda. 8. Form any five compound nouns and use them in sentences of your own.

Section-B
Section B contains 04 long answer-type questions of 10 marks each. Learners are required to answers 02 questions only.

1. Write an essay on your first day in the examination hall. 2. Prepare a report about the arrival of the education minister in your college. 3. You are Kamna Negi, the Sales Manager of Janardan Food Suppliers & Provisional Stores. Write a letter to the in-charge of Sudha Milk, Gorakhpur to supply you 150 litres of milk per week at wholesale rate for helping you cater to the sudden demand of milk products from a residential school. AND Write a letter to the Principal, Government Inter College, Pithoragarh, in response of advertisement for the post of lecturer in English.

4. Mahyoo requites frontline sales staff. They have given the following advertisement. FRONTLINE SALES STAFF TAMILNADU We require B.Sc./M.Sc. with 3-5 years experience in Sales/Marketing function of Agriculture Input/Seed Industry. Please apply within seven days to Mahyco, No. 96, NMR & sons complex, 2nd Floor, 5th Main Road, Chanmrajpeth, Bangalore-18. Wrie an application in response to this advertisement.