Course

Unit 1

Introduction to language aspects: LSRW Skills,English as Second Language, Developing the essential skills of English

Unit 2

A selection in poetry:

To daffodils (Robert Herrick), Yussouf (J R Lowell), Ozymandias (P B Shelley), The slave’s dream(H W Longfellow), The Ballad of Father Giligan (WB Yeats), Elegy (extract)(Thomas Gray), The Fly (William Blake)

Unit 3

Language practice: (Basic grammatical categories for communication)

Parts of speech, Determiners, Modal auxiliaries, Tenses, Phrasal verbs, Connectors expressing purpose, means, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, Concord of number, person, gender, pronoun and antecedent, Voice: Impersonal passive, Modifiers, Nominal compounds, Abbreviations and acronyms, Spelling and Affixation, Punctuation

Unit 4

Language lab, activities related to improving English, Language games

Unit 5

Presentation of skit

To provide the students with an ability to build and enrich their communication skills. To make them familiar with different types of communication. To understand the barriers to effective communication. Engage students in meaningful communication through effective tasks. Identify the basic principles of communication. Analyze the various types of communication. Make use of the essential principles of communication.8. Identify the prominent methods and models of Communication.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

After completing the course, students shall be able to 

CO1. Prepare the students to seek and find employment in the corporate, media, English language teaching and content writing sectors.

CO2. Develop communicative competence in students. Impart knowledge, ideas and concepts in the technicalities of proper pronunciation, structure, appropriate use and style of the English Language as well as the application areas of English communication.

CO3. Expose the students to the employment opportunities, challenges and job roles.

CO4. Enable the students to conduct independent surveys, collect and analyze data, prepare and present reports and projects. Guide the students to establish self-employment strategies.

• Doff, Adrian and Christopher Jones. Language in Use. Upper Intermediate. CUP, 1999
• Grellet, Francoise. Developing Reading Skills.A Practical Guide to Reading Comprehension Exercises. CUP, 2003.
• Hanock, Mark. English Pronunciation in Use.CUP, 2003.
• McCarthy, Michael and Felicity O’Dell. English Vocabulary in Use  (Upper Intermediate) CUP, 2001.
• Alexander, Harriet Semmes. American and British poetry: a guide to the criticism, 1925-1978. Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press, 1984.
• Contemporary poets. Ed. James Vinson. 5th ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991