English Fest 2016 at Osmania University, Hyderabad

Name: Osmania University English Festival, 2016

Date & Time: 20 January 2016, Wednesday from 9 AM to 4 PM

Venue: Department of English,

Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad - 500007

Registration:

• Only by mail.
• The list of 10-12 students on the college letterhead
• Attested by the Head of the Institution
• Sent as an email attachment to englishfest.ou@gmail.com
• By 3 pm on 19-01-16.
• No spot registrations.

Events:

1. Literary Quiz : ( Based on World Literature written in English from 16 Century to the present)

1. One team of 3 members per college/university.
2. One elimination round and one final round with 5 best teams.
3. 10 am to 1 pm.

2. Dumb Charades: (Actions based on idioms and proverbs in English)

1. One team of 3 members per college/university.
2. One member enacts and the other two guess.
3. 10 am to 12 pm.

3. Extempore Speech (From 50 English classics; List enclosed)

1. Each participant picks up a topic and speaks for 2 minutes.
2. 10 am onwards.

4. Memory Magic ( Listen to a song and arrange the words in order)

1. One team of 3 members per college/university
2. The three of them arrange strips of lyric lines in order.
3. The team has to successfully arrange the lyrics of five songs in English.
4. 10 am to 11 am.

5. Spellsmart ( Arrange  jumbled letters in the right order)

1. One team of 3 members per college/university
2. Three sets of 20 jumbled words are given from easy to difficult.
3. The teams should complete the task.
4. 11 am to 12 pm

6. Word Wizard ( Solve a cross word puzzle)

1. One team of 3 members per college/university.
2. Each team is given a cross word puzzle.
3. The team should complete the cross word puzzle.

The Students who are Interested Please Contact Karuna Kumari & Nagamani (S & H Department)

• G.Karuna Kumari 7702304995
• Dr. B. Nagamani 9493284882

There will be 3 Prizes in each category. Participation Certificates will be given to all participants.

List of Classics for the Extempore Speech Competition:

1. Hamlet—William Shakespeare
2. Merchant of Venice—William Shakespeare
3. Robinson Crusoe—Defoe
4. Treasure Island—R.L. Stevenson
5. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde—R.L. Stevenson
6. Tale of Two Cities—Dickens
7. Pride and Prejudice—Jane Austen
8. Ivanhoe—Scott
9. Silas Mariner—George Eliot
10. The Wasteland—T.S. Eliot
11. Wuthering Heights—Emily Bronte
12. Prelude—William Wordsworth
13. Black Beauty—Anna Sewell
14. Tom Brown’s School Days—Thomas Hughes
15. Huck Finn—Mark Twain
16. Old Man and the Sea—Hemingway
17. The Scarlet Letter—Hawthorne
18. Moonstone—Wilkie Collins
19. Cherry Orchard—Anton Chekov
20. The Great Gatsby—Fitzgerald
21. Animal Farm—George Orwell
22. Three Men in a Boat—Jerome K. Jerome
23. To Kill a mocking Bird—Harper Lee
24. Lord of the Flies—William Golding
25. Heart of Darkness—Joseph Conrad
26. Of Human Bondage—Maugham
27. Brave New World—Aldous Huxley
28. Fahrenheit  451—Ray Bradbury
29. The Caves of Steel—Isaac Asimov
30. Invisible Man—Ralph Ellison
31. Frankenstein—Mary Shelley
32. The Importance of Being Ernest—Oscar Wilde
33. The Grapes of Wrath—John Steinbeck
34. Doll’s House—Ibsen
35. Things Fall Apart—Achebe
36. Midnight’s Children—Salman Rushdie
37. Guide—R.K. Narayan
38. Untouchable—Mulk Raj Anand
39. Kanthapura—Raja Rao
40. Jasmine—Bharati Mukherjee
41. The God of Small Things—Arundhati Roy
42. A House of Mr. Biswas—V.S. Naipaul
43. The Inheritance of Loss—Kiran Desai
44. The Namesake—Jhumpa Lahiri
45. Surfacing—Margaret Atwood
46. Fire in the Mountain—Anita Desai
47. Shadow Lines—Amitav Ghosh
48. The White Tiger—Arvind Adiga
49. The Alchemist—Paulo Coehlo
50. A Fine Balance—Rohinton Mistry