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: Understand any text in English listening to the inputs given by the teacher in the classroom.

CO2: Interpret the rules of language unconsciously and tune to deduce language structure and usage.

CO3: Demonstrate face-to-face or telephone conversations on familiar topics containing complex grammatical structures with appropriate word choice or grammatical accuracy

CO4: Use the mechanism of language for success in competitive examinations and job-related speaking and writing tasks.

• Doff, Adrian and Christopher Jones. Language in Use. Upper Intermediate. CUP, 1999.
• Grellet, Francoise. Developing Reading Skills. A Practical Guide to Reading Comprehension 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