Essential Language Skills

Paper Code: 
FEN 100
Credits: 
2
Periods/week: 
2
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • Reinforcing selected components of grammar and usage
  • Strengthening compositional skills (for letter and paragraph-writing)
6.00
Unit I: 
Vocabulary

Synonyms and Antonyms

Word Formation : Prefix and Suffix

6.00
Unit II: 
Grammar and Usage I

Sequence of Tenses

Elements of a Clause (SVOCA)

8.00
Unit III: 
Grammar and Usage II

Transformation of Sentences

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

Modals

5.00
Unit IV: 
Comprehension

Comprehension of an unseen passage

5.00
Unit V: 
Compositional Skills

Letters : Formal and Informal

Paragraph-Writing

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

  • Quirk, Randolph, and Sidney Greenbaum. A University Grammar of English. Harlow: Orient Longman Limited, 1973.Print.

  • Gunashekar, Paul, ed. A Foundation English Course for Undergraduates. Book 1. Hyderabad: CIEFL. Print.

  • Rao, H. G. Suryanarayana. Prose For Pleasure & Comprehension. Oxford UP, 2010. Print.

  • Swan, Michael. A Practical English Usage. 3rd ed. Oxford UP, 2005. Print.

  • Hooper, J.S. A Quick English Reference. Oxford UP, 1981. 232. Print.

  • Adams, Valerie. An Introduction to Modern English Word-formation. London: Longman, 1973. 230. Print.

Academic Year: 
2018-2019