ESSENTIAL & APPLIED LANGUAGE SKILLS

Paper Code: 
EFT-100
Credits: 
02
Contact Hours: 
30.00
Objective: 

Reinforcing selected components of grammar and usage

Strengthening compositional skills( for letter and paragraph-writing)

Facilitating comprehension of short-stories

Enabling students to consult a dictionary for correct pronunciation (sounds & word-stress)

 

6.00
Unit I: 
Vocabulary & Phonetics

 

Synonyms and Antonyms                                                                                                                                                                                     

Word Formation: Prefix and Suffix

Word stress (Marking stress in words written in normal orthography)

8.00
Unit II: 
Grammar and Usage

Transformation of Sentences

• Direct and Indirect Narration

• Interchange of Degrees of Comparison Modals

Modals

Sequence of Tenses

 

4.00
Unit III: 
Comprehension

 

Comprehension of an unseen passage

 

6.00
Unit IV: 
Compositional Skills

 

Letters: Formal and Informal

CVs and Job Application

Precis-Writing                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

 

6.00
Unit V: 
Professional and Writing Skills

 

Dialogue- writing

Editing a short text (focusing on grammer, coherence and cohesion)

 

Essential Readings: 

1.     A. University Grammar of English by Quirk & Greenbaum (O. Longman) 1973

2.     A Foundation English Course for Undergraduates Ed. Gunashekar, Book 1, CIEFL, Hyderabad

3.     Prose for Pleasure and Comprehension by H. G. Suryanarayana Rao (OUP)

4.     A Guide to Patterns and Usage by A. S. Hornby

5.     Cvs & Job Applications by Judith Leigh (OUP, 2001)

6.     English at Workplace (Eds, Panja Sawhney & Verma, Macmillan, 2006)

7.     Professional Communication by R. P.Singh (OUP, 2004)

8.     English made Simply by Arthur Waldhorn & Arthur Zeiger (Made Simple Books, Garden City, New York, 1991)

9.     The Written Word by VAndana R. Singh (OUP)

10.   The Mind’s Eye by Allan Maley, A.Duff and F. Grellet (CUP, 1980)

11.   An Immediate English Grammer by C.D. Siddhu (O.Longman)

 

Academic Year: 
2015-16
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