Communicative English

Paper Code: 
CEN 161
Credits: 
05
Periods/week: 
05
Max. Marks: 
100
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

Tenses

Subject Verb Agreement

Use of Prepositions

Reported Speech

Active and Passive Voice

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: 
  • Adams ,Dorothy & et.al. Everyday English: A Course on Communicative English (Level 2).New Delhi: Thomson Press,2009.Print.
  • Bannerjee, Meera and Krishnamohan. Developing Communication Skills  Speaking English Effectively.New Delhi: Macmillan ,2000.Print.
  • P.N.Gopalkrishnan. Book of Synonyms. New Delhi: Authorpress,2006.Print.
  • Verma . K Shivendra and Hemlatha Nagarajan. An Interactive Grammar of Modern English. New Delhi: Frank Brothers,1995.Print.
  • Sunney and Tharappan. Communicative English – A Basic Course in Spoken and Written English.

 

Academic Year: 
2019-2020