Communicative English

Paper Code: 
CEN 161
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
 

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: 
  1. Book of Synonyms by P. Gopalakrishnan
  2. An Interactive Grammar of Modern English by Shivendra K. Verma and Hemlatha Nagarajan
  3. Communicative English – A Basic Course in Spoken and Written English by Sunney and Tharappan
  4. Everyday English: A Course on Communicative English (Level 2) by Dorothy Adams, Michelle Crawford, Rachel Finnie, Jasdeep Kaur, Katrina Gormley
  5. Developing Communication Skills by Krishnamohan and Meera Bannerjee
  6. Speaking English Effectively by Krishnamohan and N.P. Singh