TECHNICAL ENGLISH II |
UNIT I |
L - Listening to cultural awareness
R - Inferential Reading
W - Letter writing - Informal and Formal
S - Developing confidence
LF - Adjectives, Degrees of comparison |
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES: |
L - Listening to casual conversations, talks, interviews and lectures.
R - Reading business articles
W - Thank you letters, calling for quotations, placing an order,
seeking clarification, letters of complaint.
S - Describing and Discussing
LF - Exercises - equal and unequal comparison |
UNIT II |
L - Listening to specific information relating to technical content
R - Reading Texts
W - Letter writing - Formal
S - Expressing opinions
LF - Simple, compound and complex sentences |
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES: |
L - Listening for statistical information
R - Exercises related to articles (in magazines) and comparing
articles
W - Letter seeking permission to undergo practical training and
undertake project work
S - Exercises related to discussing, describing role play and oral
summarising
LF - Exercises related to transformation of sentences |
UNIT III |
L - Listening to specific information relating to technical content
R - Skimming and Scanning
W - Formal Letter writing
S - Giving Instructions
LF - Pronouns, Phrasal verbs, Restrictive and Non - restrictive 3
clauses |
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES |
L - Exercises related to listening to interviews and presentations
R - Reading Job applications
W - Applying for a Job, Writing a CV
S - Exercises related to discussing, describing role play and oral
summarising of instructions
LF - Exercises related to vocabulary and Grammar |
UNIT IV |
L - Listening and retrieving Information
R - Skimming and Scanning
W - Letter writing, Report writing
S - Developing fluency and Coherence
LF - Countable, Uncountable nouns, Vocabulary relating to graphical
representation, Recommendations |
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES |
L - Exercises related to listening and retrieving information
R - Reading advertisements
W - Letters to the Editor, Letter of Complaint, Various kinds of
Report writing
meetings, industrial visits
S - Activities related to intonation and improving voice quality
LF - Exercises related to vocabulary and grammar structure and
examples of situational recommendations (Should form) |
UNIT V |
L - Listening and retrieving Information
R - Predicting content
W - Writing proposals, Agenda, Minutes of the meeting
S - Developing coherence and self expression, making
presentations
LF - British and American Vocabulary, Error Detection, Punctuation |
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES |
L - Exercises related to listening and retrieving information, gapped
texts
R - Interpreting Business reports
W - Writing Proposals (Symposiums, seminars, conferences)
Agenda and Minutes of the meeting (Class committee meeting
etc.)
S - Paralinguistic and extra linguistic features (body language, short
presentations)
LF - Exercises related to British and American vocabulary
(Differences in vocabulary, spelling etc), Editing texts |
Text Book |
Norman Whitby - Business Benchmark Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate,
Students Book, Cambridge University Press, 2008. |
References |
1.A Course in Communication Skills(Anna University, coimbatore edition) : Dutt,
Rajeevan, Prakash. Cambridge University Press India Pvt.Ltd, 2007.
2.Meenakshi Raman and Sangeeta Sharma-'Technical Communication English
Skills for Engineers'; Oxford University Press, 2008. |
Extensive Reading |
1.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam with Arun Tiwari, ‘Wings of Fire’ An Autobiography,
University Press India Pvt. Ltd., 1999, 30th Impression 2007.
2.Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture: July 2008. Also available on
youtube.com
3.Edward De Bono :Six Thinking Hats, Little Brown & Co. 1999 Also
available as e book on Google 192 pages |