Essential Language Skills

Paper Code: 
FEN 100
Credits: 
02
Periods/week: 
02
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

The course will enable the students to:

  • Recognize the modes of language-literacy, viz. reading, writing, speaking
  • Improve their knowledge of grammar and fluency in oral and written production

 

Course Outcomes

The students will:

  • Recognize and evaluate the meaning of grammatical structures in written and spoken form
  • Appraise grammatical structures meaningfully and appropriately in language-use
  • Develop their compositional skills (for letter and paragraph-writing)

 

 

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 

        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.

 

Academic Year: 
2021-2022