- COURSE OBJECTIVES:
- To improve the communicative competence of learners
- To learn to use basic grammatic structures in suitable contexts
- To acquire lexical competence and use them appropriately in a sentence and understand
- their meaning in a text
- To help learners use language effectively in professional contexts
- To develop learners’ ability to read and write complex texts, summaries, articles, blogs,
- definitions, essays and user manuals.
UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION 1
What is effective communication? (Explain using activities) Why is communication critical for
excellence during study, research and work? What are the seven C’s of effective communication?
What are key language skills? What is effective listening? What does it involve? What is effective
speaking? What does it mean to be an excellent reader? What should you be able to do? What is
effective writing? How does one develop language and communication skills? What does the
course focus on? How are communication and language skills going to be enhanced during this
course? What do you as a learner need to do to enhance your English language and
communication skills to get the best out of this course?
INTRODUCTION TO FUNDAMENTALS OF COMMUNICATION
Reading – Reading brochures (technical context), telephone messages / social media messages
relevant to technical contexts and emails. Writing – Writing emails / letters introducing oneself.
Grammar – Present Tense ( simple and progressive); Question types: Wh/ Yes or No/ and Tags.
Vocabulary – Synonyms; One word substitution; Abbreviations & Acronyms (as used in technical
contexts).
UNIT II NARRATION AND SUMMATION
Reading – Reading biographies, travelogues, newspaper reports, Excerpts from literature, and
travel & technical blogs. Writing – Guided writing– Paragraph writing Short Report on an event
(field trip etc.) Grammar –Past tense (simple); Subject-Verb Agreement; and Prepositions.
Vocabulary – Word forms (prefixes& suffixes); Synonyms and Antonyms. Phrasal verbs.
UNIT III DESCRIPTION OF A PROCESS / PRODUCT
Reading – Reading advertisements, gadget reviews; user manuals. Writing – Writing definitions;
instructions; and Product /Process description. Grammar – Imperatives; Adjectives; Degrees of
comparison; Present & Past Perfect Tenses. Vocabulary – Compound Nouns, Homonyms; and
Homophones, discourse markers (connectives & sequence words).
UNIT IV CLASSIFICATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Reading – Newspaper articles; Journal reports –and Non Verbal Communcation ( tables, pie charts
etc,. ). Writing – Note-making / Note-taking (*Study skills to be taught, not tested); Writing
recommendations; Transferring information from non verbal ( chart , graph etc, to verbal mode)
Grammar – Articles; Pronouns – Possessive & Relative pronouns. Vocabulary – Collocations; Fixed
/ Semi fixed expressions.
UNIT V EXPRESSION
Reading – Reading editorials; and Opinion Blogs; Writing – Essay Writing (Descriptive or
narrative). Grammar – Future Tenses, Punctuation; Negation (Statements & Questions); and
Simple, Compound & Complex Sentences. Vocabulary – Cause & Effect Expressions – Content vs
Function words
➤UNIT 1:
●PART A
Present Tense/ Question Types
Synonyms / One Word Substitutions/Abbreviations &
Acronmys
●PART B
Writing Emails/Letter Introducing Oneself
➤UNIT 2:
●PART A
Past Tense/Subject Verb Agreement/Preposition Prefix & Suffix (Word Form)/ Phrasal Verbs
Synonyms Antonyms
●PART B
Guided Writing/Short Report on Event
➤UNIT 3:
●PART A
Imperatives/Adjective/Degree of comparison / Present & Past Tense
Compound words/HomoPhones/Discourge Markers
●PART B
Writing Definitions Instruction/Product/Process Description
➤UNIT 4:
●PART A
Article / Pronouns / Possessives & Relative Pronouns
Collocation/Fixed/Semi Fixed Expression
●PART B
Recommendation/Transferring Information from Non-Verbal
➤UNIT 5:
●PART A
Future Tense Punctuation/Negation/Simple Compound & Complex Sentences
Cause & Effect Expressions/Content vs Function Word
●PART B
Essay Writing (Descriptive /Narrative)