Essential & Applied Language Skills

Paper Code: 
VEN/EFT/EJD100
Credits: 
02
Periods/week: 
02
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • Reinforcing selected components of grammar and usage.
  • Strengthening compositional skills.
  • Enabling students to consult a dictionary for correct pronunciation (sounds and word-stress).

 

6.00
Unit I: 

Vocabulary and Phonetics

Synonyms & Antonyms

Word Formation : Prefix & Suffix

Word-stress (marking stress)

6.00
Unit II: 

Grammar and Usage

Transformation of Sentences:

Direct & Indirect Narration

Interchange of Degrees of Comparison

Modals

Sequence of Tenses

4.00
Unit III: 

Comprehension

Comprehension of an unseen passage (including interpreting visual material, eg. Graphics etc.)

6.00
Unit IV: 

Compositional Skills

Letters : Formal & Informal      

CVs  & Job-Applications

Précis–Writing

6.00
Unit V: 

Professional Writing Skills

Dialogue-Writing

Editing a Short Text

(focusing on grammar, coherence & cohesion)

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Adams, Valerie. An Introduction to Modern English Word-Formation. California:  Longman, 1973. Print.
  • Leigh, Judith. CVs and Job Applications. London: OUP, 2004. Print.
  • Quirk, Randolph and Sidney Greenbaum. A University Grammar of English. Essex: Longman, 1986. Print.
  • Seely, John. The Oxford Guide to Writing and Speaking. Oxford: OUP, 2005. Print.
  • Singh, Vandana R. The Written Word. New Delhi: OUP, 2009. Print.

 

Academic Year: 
2016-2017