Essential & Applied Language Skills

Paper Code: 
VEN/EJD/EEN 100
Credits: 
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)

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

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: 
2019-2020