Essential & Applied Language Skills

Paper Code: 
VEN/EJD/EEN100
Credits: 
02
Periods/week: 
02
Objective: 
•The course will enable the students to:
  • Improve their knowledge of grammar and fluency in oral and written production
  • Get acquainted with the structures of phonetics and word stress
  • Acquire compositional and editing skills 
6.00
Unit I: 
Vocabulary and Phonetics
Synonyms & Antonyms
Word Formation : Prefix & Suffix
Word-stress (marking stress)
10.00
Unit II: 
Grammar and Usage
Transformation of Sentences:
Direct & Indirect Narration
Interchange of Degrees of Comparison
Modals
Sequence of Tenses
2.00
Unit III: 
Comprehension

Comprehension of an unseen passage

6.00
Unit IV: 
Compositional Skills
Letters : Formal & Informal
Resumé, CV& Job-Application
Précis–Writing
6.00
Unit V: 
Professional Writing Skills
Dialogue-Writing 
Editing a Short Text 
(focussing on grammar, coherence & cohesion)
Source Books: 
Quirk, Randolph and Sidney Greenbaum. A University Grammar of English. Longman, 1986. 
Seely, John. The Oxford Guide to Writing and Speaking. OUP, 2005. 
Singh, Vandana R. The Written Word. OUP, 2009. 
 
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
Adams, Valerie. An Introduction to Modern English Word-Formation. Longman, 1973. 
Leigh, Judith. CVs and Job Applications. OUP, 2004.
Academic Year: 
2020-2021