Communicative English

Paper Code: 
CEN 161
Credits: 
5
Periods/week: 
5
Objective: 

To enable the students to use English language for general and practical purposes by familiarizing them with the basic functional aspects of English.

6.00
Unit I: 
Basic Grammar

Tenses

Subject Verb agreement

Use of Prepositions

Reported Speech

Active and Passive Voice
6.00
Unit II: 
Vocabulary Building

Frequently Confused Words

Synonyms-Antonyms

Word Formation

One word substitution
8.00
Unit III: 
Listening and Reading Skills

Listening Comprehension

  • Overcoming barriers to listening
  • Strategies for effective listening
Reading Comprehension
  • Factual and logical
  • Strategies for effective reading
10.00
Unit IV: 
Writing Skills

Essentials of Writing

  • Organization of Ideas
  • Unity and Coherence
Developing a Good Paragraph
10.00
Unit V: 
Speaking Skills

Useful Expressions

Using English in Familiar Situations
  • At the Airport
  • Restaurant
  • Bank
  • Railway Station
  • Hotel
  • Passport Office/ Consulates and Embassies
  • Shopping Mall
  • Post office
  • Police Station
  • Library
 
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Book of Synonyms by P. Gopalakrishnan
  • An Interactive Grammar of Modern English by Shivendra K. Verma and Hemlatha Nagarajan
  • Communicative English – A Basic Course in Spoken and Written English by Sunney and Tharappan
  • Everyday English: A Course on Communicative English (Level 2) by Dorothy Adams, Michelle Crawford, Rachel Finnie, Jasdeep Kaur, Katrina Gormley
  • Developing Communication Skills by Krishnamohan and Meera Bannerjee
  • Speaking English Effectively by Krishnamohan and N.P. Singh
Academic Year: 
2018-2019