BA/BSC/BCom 1st Year
AECC English
Question Bank (Suggestive) for Assignment & Exams
1. What is the difference between a diary & a journal? What are the benefits of Diary Writing?
What are the various types of diaries? List some tips, that is, dos and don’ts for effective
diary writing.
2. Your vacation has just started. You are very excited about your plans. Pen your thoughts in
your diary.
3. What is a ‘topic sentence.’? List some dos and don’ts for effective paragraph writing. What
are ‘linking devices’ used in effective paragraph writing? Explain various types of
paragraphs such as expository paragraphs, descriptive paragraphs, narrative paragraphs,
argumentative paragraphs, and imaginative paragraphs.
4. Write a paragraph on: (a) My first day in college (b) My experience so far at Govt College
Theog (c) English Language & I (d) Drug Menace among Today’s Youth.
5. List some dos and don’ts for ‘note-taking’ and ‘summary writing.’ What are the
characteristics of a ‘good summary.’? What are the steps involved in writing a summary?
6. (a) Write a letter to the Editor of a newspaper discussing the problem of traffic in your
locality. (b) Write a letter to your friend congratulating him/her on securing admission and
scholarship in the university of his/her dreams in USA. (c) Write a letter to the chairman
of your municipality, complaining of irregular water supply.
7. What are the various parts of a formal letter? List some tips for effective letter writing.
8. What is a notice? What are the various components of a notice? What are various kinds of
notices? List some important guidelines to be kept in mind while framing a notice.
9. Write a notice on: (a) a blood donation camp held in your college (b) test for student
editorship of different sections of the college magazine (c) science exhibition to be held in
your college (d) misuse of water in your society as Secretary of your housing colony (e)
notice from SP (Traffic) to vacate illegal parking of personal vehicle on road. (f) Walk-in-
interview (g) Termination of Services of an employee. (h) a notice for a meeting with
attached items of agenda to be discussed in the meeting and the minutes of the meeting.
10. What is a Resume/CV? Is there any difference between the two? What are various kinds of
resume? List the essential components of a good resume. List some writing techniques for
a good resume. What is a ‘covering letter’ to a resume? Make your Resume and send it to
the Editor of The Tribune who has advertised 10 posts/positions for internship as Junior
Editor.
11. What is an interview? What are structured and unstructured interviews? List some other
types of interviews? What are various mediums for conducting an interview? What are
various stages of an interview? What does a prospective employer expect from a candidate
in an interview. List some tips for effectively managing an interview as an interviewee.
12. Interview the Chief Minister of your State and record it in writing in a proper format.
13. List the dos and don’ts for conducting an interview as interviewer.
