Essential & Applied Language Skills

Paper Code: 
VEN/EFT/EJD100
Credits: 
2
Periods/week: 
2
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • Reinforcing selected components of grammar and usage.
  • Strengthening compositional skills
  • Facilitating comprehension of short-stories
  • Enabling students to consult a dictionary for correct pronunciation (sounds and word-stress)
6.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1 (Vocabulary and Phonetics)

· Synonyms & Antonyms

· Word Formation : Prefix & Suffix

· Word-stress (marking stress in words written in normal orthography)

8.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2 (Grammar and Usage)

· Transformation of Sentences:

(i)  Direct & Indirect Narration

(ii) Interchange of Degrees of Comparison

· Modals

Sequence of Tenses

4.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3 ( Comprehension)

· Comprehension of an unseen passage (including interpreting visual material,

eg. graphics, etc.)

6.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4 (Compositional Skills)
  • Letters : Formal & Informal
  • CVs  & Job-Applications
  • Précis–Writing
6.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5 ( Professional Writing Skills)
  • Dialogue-Writing
  • Editing a Short Text (focussing on grammar, coherence & cohesion)
SUGGESTED READINGS: 

1. A University Grammar of English by Quirk & Greenbaum (O.Longman,1973).

2. A Foundation English Course for Undergraduates (Ed. Gunashekar, Book 1, CIEFL, Hyderabad).

3. Prose for Pleasure and Comprehension by H.G.Suryanarayana Rao (OUP).

4. A Guide to Patterns and Usage by A.S.Hornby.

5. CVs and Job Applications by Judith Leigh(OUP, 2004)

6. English at the Workplace (Eds.Panja Sawhney & Verma, Macmillan, 2006)

7. Professional Communication by R.P. Singh (OUP, 2001)

8. English Made Simply by Arthur Waldhorn & Arthur Zeiger (Made Simple Books, Garden City, New York, 1991)

9. The Written Word by Vandana R. Singh (OUP)

10. The Mind’s Eye by Alan Maley, A. Duff and F. Grellet (CUP, 1980)

11. An Intermediate English Grammar by C.D. Siddhu (O. Longman)

Academic Year: 
2014-2015