Pokhara University
Faculty of Management
English 101
Evaluation Model
Course Description
The English Courses in Management (ENG 101 and ENG 102) focus on the four main
aspects of language: reading, writing, listening and speaking, and combine general
English requirements with important language skills associated principally with
interdisciplinary and business related studies. The course comprises all the major aspects
of the English language including speaking, pronunciation, listening, reading and writing,
and the focus is on improving the students to communicate clearly and effectively. The
syllabus for the lessons is based on the course books, but the teacher will also use lots of
other materials, including online materials and suggestions from students so the content
of the class can be more useful and interesting. Students will also be evaluated
accordingly.
Prescribed Texts
Grant, D., J. Hughes, and R. Turner. Business Result: Elementary Student’s Book.
Oxford: OUP, 2009. (including Elementary Interactive Workbook with video)
Nissani, M., and S. Lohani. Adventures in English Vol I. Third Edition. Kathmandu: Ekta
2013. (including Sounds of English and Stories and Poems cassettes)
Evaluation
*Questions will be set covering the prescribed books.
*The questions will be of three broad types:
1Critical/Long answer type: 2 questions each of 15 marks (3 questions
will be given): 2x15 = 30 marks
2. Analytical/Medium answer type: 5 questions each of 10 marks (6
questions will be given): 5x10 = 50 marks
3. Descriptive/Short answer type: 10 questions each of 2 marks (12
questions will be given): 2x10 = 20 marks
*The distribution of questions will be as follows:
Long answer type:
one question from Adventures in English Vol. 1
one question from Business Result: Elementary
one question from Adventures in English Vol. 1 and/or Business
Result: Elementary
2. Medium answer type:
three questions from Adventures in English Vol. 1
three questions from Business Result: Elementary
3. Short answer type:
six questions from Adventures in English Vol. 1
six questions from Business Result: Elementary
*It’s recommended that the marks allotted for internal assessment
should be primarily used to test the students’ speaking and listening
competencies from both Adventures in English and Business Result:
Elementary.
*A model question paper is given below, but it is to be borne in mind
that it is just for giving a general idea of an exam paper and is not and
does not aim to be exhaustive.
A Model Question Paper
Pokhara University
Faculty of Management
English 101
Credit hours: 3 (Full Marks: 100) Time: 3 hours
Candidates are expected to answer the questions in their own words as
far as practicable. The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Answer all the questions.
Question 1. Answer any two of the following: (15 marks each)
a. Below are some common mechanisms through which office
supplies are ordered and returned. Explain any three of them and
indicate which of the services you would prefer if you were asked to order
supplies for your office, and also explain why.
Free delivery
Internet ordering
Ordering by phone
Easy returns
OR
Explain the role of team spirit in the workplace. Should managers
make important decisions on their own, or should they discuss issues
with their team beforehand? Give reasons for your answer.
b. You have read three writings which make strong cases against
television: “The Wretched Stone,” a story in the form of a log; “Great
Scott: Gadzooks!” a poem; and “Curbing the One-Eyed Monster,” an
essay. What are the main arguments in each piece, and which did you
find to be the most convincing? Give reasons.
OR
c. Apply the four levels of reading a text to Peretz’s “If Not Higher” or
Devkota’s “The Illiterate”.
d. Would you argue that education is supremely valuable? Give
reasons. You can base your answers on Richard Wright’s and Moti
Nissani’s essays.
OR
Think of a new technology or product that can make Nepali
people’s lives better. What is it? How does it work?
Question 2. Answer any five of the following: (10 marks
each)
a. You are the Human Resources Manager at Lotus National Bank.
You are in need of an MBA intern for the marketing department. Write an
advertisement with a description of the position and the qualifications
required.
b. The business world is becoming highly competitive. What are some
strategies that corporations can adopt to maintain and strengthen their
image?
c. Stella Brown from the UK plans to visit your company next week.
Write a short email to Stella with directions to your company from the
airport. (You may choose the location.)
d. In one paragraph, summarize the basic plot of Achebe’s story,
“Marriage is a Private Affair.”
e. What kind of mother-child relationship does D.H. Lawrence’s poem
“Piano” portray?
f. How does the speaker in “The Parrot in the Cage” move between
concepts of freedom and bondage in the poem?
Question 3. Give brief but pertinent answers to any five of the following.
10
a. Basing your answer on “Phaedo,” answer the question: How should a
human being face death?
b. What was King David’s crime?
c. Why did the the Cabuliwallah develop friendship with Mini?
d. Edit the sentence: Along came John; the town’s idiot.
e. What do you understand by “male chauvinism”?
f. Why does Yudhisthira ask the Yaksha to restore Nakula to life instead
of Bhima or Arjuna?
Question 4. Explain in a sentence how your company is competitive, or
why you are resigning from your job. 2
Question 5. Complete these sentences with the missing words. 4
a. These are the same price so what’s the d_____?
b. The prices in the two shops are s _____but the quality is different.
c. Did you receive the two quotes? How do they c_____?
d. The a_____ of English lessons online is that you can study any time.
Question 6. Complete these sentences with the correct word given in
parentheses.
4
a. At the __________, the schedule is about a week late.
(moment/date/deadline)
b. We’ve ___________ lost two days on this. (yet/already/have)
c. The _________ of this is to have it in the shops by December.
(plan/schedule/aim)
d. What’s the _____________ for this report? Next Friday at the latest.
(time/week/deadline)
