TECHNICAL ENGLISH I |
UNIT I |
L - Types of Listening
R - Basic Reading Comprehension
W - Introduction to writing strategies
S - Conversational Skills
LF - Language Focus-Technical terms, collocations and Grammar |
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES: |
L - Listening to conversations
R - Reading Instructions and Technical Manuals
W - Writing Definitions
S - Short Conversations through role play
LF - Activities relating to understanding and using active and passive
general and technical vocabulary Basic sentence patterns; Exercises
relating to technical terms, tenses (past, present, perfect and
continuous tenses) |
UNIT II |
L - Types of Listening
R - Reading Comprehension
W - Introduction to writing strategies
S - Strategies for developing conversational skills
LF - Tenses and concord |
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES: |
L - Listening to a lectures, listening to description of equipment.
R - Reading e-mails, Reading headlines, predicting content
W - Note making, writing descriptions
S - Asking questions, participating in discussions
LF - Exercises relating to special uses of tenses, Subject - verb agreement |
UNIT III |
L - Enhancing Listening Skills
R - Intensive reading
W - Effective writing strategies
S - Improving fluency through oral practice
LF - Form and Informal usage of words, Use of the passive forms |
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES |
L - Listening to different kinds of interviews
(Face - to - face, radio, TV and telephone interviews)
R - Reading passages for gist
W - Informal writing -short e-mails (Focus on brevity, coherence and
cohesion), Memos
S - Role play and describing
LF - Descriptive words, verbs to describe processes, informal language
used in conversation, guessing meanings of unknown vocabulary,
exercises related to the passive (conversion from active to passive,
impersonal passive forms) |
UNIT IV |
L - Note taking
R - Reading strategies
W - Effective writing strategies - Informal
S - Improving fluency through oral practice
LF - Cause and Effect, Modals |
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES |
L - Taking down notes
R - Reading passages for specific information
W - Phone messages (Focus on brevity, coherence and cohesion)
S - Pronunciation (Phonetic sounds - vowels, consonants and diphthongs)
LF - Exercises relating to cause and effect (if - clauses and types), usage
of modal verbs. |
UNIT V |
L - Listening for nuances of tone
R - Reading for a purpose, information transfer
W - Effective writing strategies - Formal
S - Improving fluency through oral practice
LF - Descriptive Vocabulary - Word building |
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES |
L - Activities relating to variation in tone, listening to welcome speeches
R - Reading business documents, interpreting graphical representations
W - Writing business e-mails
S - Segmental and suprasegmental features-stress and intonation
LF - Exercises relating to describing objects and aim usage of prefixes and
suffixes, synonyms and antonyms |
Text Book |
Norman Whitby - Business Benchmark Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate,
Students Book, Cambridge University Press, 2008. |
References |
A Course in Communication Skills(Anna University, coimbatore edition) : Dutt,
Rajeevan, Prakash. Cambridge University Press India Pvt.Ltd, 2007.
Meenakshi Raman and Sangeeta Sharma-'Technical Communication English
Skills for Engineers'; Oxford University Press, 2008. |
Extensive Reading |
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam with Arun Tiwari, ‘Wings of Fire’ An Autobiography, University
Press India Pvt. Ltd., 1999, 30th Impression 2007.
Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture: July 2008. Also available on youtube.com
Edward De Bono :Six Thinking Hats, Little Brown & Co. 1999 Also available
as e book on Google 192 pages.
(The students can select any two of the above books) |