Essential Language Skills

Paper Code: 
FEN 100
Credits: 
02
Periods/week: 
02
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

The students will:

  1. Recognize and evaluate the meaning of grammatical structures in written and spoken form
  2. Appraise grammatical structures meaningfully and appropriately in language-use
  3. Develop their compositional skills (for letter and paragraph-writing)
  4. Enable students to comprehend and interpret information effectively
  5. Demonstrate effective vocabulary skills for written and verbal communication

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Writing assignments

Quizzes

Learning activities for the students:

Self- learning assignments, practice exercises ‚ Effective questions, Giving tasks

 

Class test, Semester end examinations Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Individual and group projects

 

 

6.00

Vocabulary                                                   

Synonyms and Antonyms

Word-formation : Prefix and Suffix

 

 

 

7.00

Grammar and Usage - I

Sequence of Tenses

Elements of a Clause (SVOCA)

 

 

 

8.00

Grammar and Usage – II

           

Transformation of Sentences

  • Direct and Indirect Narration
  • Active and Passive Voice
  • Interchange of Degrees of Comparison

 

Modals

 

 

 

4.00

Comprehension

Comprehension of an unseen passage

 

 

5.00

Compositional Skills

Letter-writing : Formal and Informal

Paragraph-writing

 

 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

Adams, Valerie. An Introduction to Modern English Word-formation. Longman, 1973.

Gunashekar, Paul, ed. A Foundation English Course for Undergraduates. Book 1. OUP, 2000.

Hooper, J.S. A Quick English Reference. OUP, 1981.

Quirk, Randolph, and Sidney Greenbaum. A University Grammar of English. Orient Longman. 1973.

Rao, H. G. Suryanarayana. Prose for Pleasure and Comprehension. OUP, 2010.

Seely, John. The Oxford Guide to Writing and Speaking. OUP, 2005.

Swan, Michael. A Practical English Usage. 3rd ed. OUP, 2005.

 

E-Resources:

https://www.slideshare.net/19gammans64/synonyms-and-antonyms-23238054

https://www.slideshare.net/widyakurniaarizonasan/prefix-and-suffix-46984985

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