The sweeping changes in the world have elevated English to the status of a tool of global communication and transformed it into e-English. The syllabus has been drafted to improve the competence of students in communication in general and language skills in particular. The books prescribed serve as students’ handbooks.
The teacher should focus on the skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking while using the prescribed text and exercises. The classes should be interactive. The students should be encouraged to participate in the classroom proceedings and also to write short paragraphs and essays. The main aim is to encourage two way communications in place of the one-sided lecture.
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The text for non-detailed study is meant for extensive reading by the students. They may be encouraged to read some select topics on their own, which could lead into a classroom discussion. In addition to the exercises from the texts done in the class, the teacher can bring variety by using authentic materials such as newspaper articles, advertisements etc.
2. OBJECTIVES:
a. To improve the language proficiency of the students in English with an emphasis on LSRW skills.
b. To equip the students to study academic subjects with greater facility through theoretical and
practical components of the syllabus.
c. To develop study skills as well as communication skills in formal and informal situations.
3. SYLLABUS:
Listening Skills:
Objectives
1. To enable students to develop their listening skill so that they may appreciate its role in the LSRW
skills approach to language and improve their pronunciation
2. To equip students with necessary training in listening so that can comprehend the speech of people
of different backgrounds and regions
Students should be given practice in listening to the sounds of the language to be able to recognise them, to
distinguish between them to mark stress and recognise and use the right intonation in sentences.
• Listening for general content
• Listening to fill up information
• Intensive listening
• Listening for specific information Speaking Skills:
Objectives
1. To make students aware of the
2. To enable students to express
contexts.
Oral practice
Describing objects/situations/people
Role play – Individual/Group activities
Learning English : A Communicative
Just A Minute(JAM) Sessions.
Reading Skills:
Objectives
1. To develop an awareness in the students about the significance of silent reading and
comprehension.
2. To develop the ability of students to guess the meanings of words from context and grasp the
overall message of the text, draw inferences etc.
• Skimming the text
• Understanding the gist of an argument
• Identifying the topic sentence
• Inferring lexical and contextual meaning
• Understanding discourse features
• Recognizing coherence/sequencing of sentences NOTE : The students will be trained in reading skills using the prescribed text for detailed study. They will
be examined in reading and answering questions using ‘unseen’ passages which may be taken
from the non-detailed text or other authentic texts, such as magazines/newspaper articles. Writing Skills :
Objectives
1. To develop an awareness in the students about writing as an exact and formal skill
2. To equip them with the components of different forms of writing, beginning with the lower order ones.
• Writing sentences
• Use of appropriate vocabulary
• Paragraph writing
• Coherence and cohesiveness
• Narration / description
• Note Making
• Formal and informal letter writing
• Editing a passage
REFERENCE
TEXTBOOKS PRESCRIBED:
In order to improve the proficiency of the student in the acquisition of the four skills mentioned above, the
following texts and course content, divided into Eight Units, are prescribed:
For Detailed study
1 First Text book entitled “Enjoying Everyday English”, Published by Sangam Books, Hyderabad
For Non-detailed study
1. Second text book “Inspiring Speeches and Lives”, Published by Maruthi Publications, Guntur
A. STUDY MATERIAL: Unit –I
a. Heaven’s Gate from ENJOYING EVERYDAY ENGLISH
b. Mokshagundam Visvesaraya from INSPIRING LIVES Unit –II
a. Sir C.V.Raman from ENJOYING EVERYDAY ENGLISH
b. Mother Teresa from INSPIRING LIVES Unit –III
a. The Connoisseur from ENJOYING EVERYDAY ENGLISH
b. Dr. Amartya Kumar Sen from INSPIRING LIVES
Unit –IV
a. The Cuddalore Experience from ENJOYING EVERYDAY ENGLISH
b. Gertrude Elion from INSPIRING LIVES
Unit –V
a. Bubbling Well Road from ENJOYING EVERYDAY ENGLISH
b. Vishwanathan Anand from INSPIRING LIVES
Unit –VI
a. Odds Against Us from ENJOYING EVERYDAY ENGLISH
b. Charlie Chaplin from INSPIRING LIVES
Unit – VII
Exercises on
Reading and Writing Skills, Reading Comprehension, Letter writing, Report writing
Unit – VIII
Exercises on
Remedial Grammar covering Common errors in English, Subject-Verb agreement,
Use of Articles and Prepositions, Active/Passive Voice, Reported speech, Tenses
Vocabulary development covering Synonyms & Antonyms, one-word substitutes, prefixes & suffixes, Idioms & phrases, words often confused. Evaluation: The question paper shall contain two parts, Part A containing questions from Units I- VI and Part B containing questions from units VII & VIII. The student is required to answer five full questions choosing at least one from Part B.
Reference Books
1. Technical Communication , Principle and Practice, Meenakshi Raman and Sangita Sharma, OUP, 2009.
2. Essential Grammar in Use, (with CD) 3/e, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
3. Resumes and Interviews, M.Ashraf Rizvi, Tata – McGraw Hill, 2009.
4. Everyday Dialogues in English by Robert J. Dixson, Prentice-Hall of India Ltd., 2006.
5. Communication Skills for Technical Students, Farhathullah, T.M., Orient Blackswan, 2008.
6. Developing Communication Skills, 2/e. by Krishna Mohan & Meera Banerji , Macmillan, 2009.
7. English for Technical Communication, Vol. 1 & 2, by K. R. Lakshmi Narayanan, Sci tech. Publications.
8. Basic Communication Skills For Technology, Andrea J Ruthurford, Pearson Education , Asia.
9. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English with DVD, Pearson Longman.