Communicative English

Paper Code: 
CEN 161
Credits: 
5
Periods/week: 
5
Objective: 

To enable the students to use English language for general and practical purposes by familiarizing them with the basic functional aspects of English.

6.00
Unit I: 
Basic Grammar

Tenses
Subject Verb agreement
Use of Prepositions
Reported Speech
Active and Passive Voice

6.00
Unit II: 
Vocabulary Building

Frequently Confused Words
Synonyms-Antonyms
Word Formation
One word substitution

8.00
Unit III: 
Listening and Reading Skills

Listening Comprehension
•Overcoming barriers to listening
•Strategies for effective listening
Reading Comprehension
•Factual and logical
•Strategies for effective reading

10.00
Unit IV: 
Writing Skills

Essentials of Writing
•Organization of Ideas
•Unity and Coherence
Developing a Good Paragraph

Unit V: 
Speaking Skills

Useful Expressions
Using English in Familiar Situations
•At the Airport
•Restaurant
•Bank
•Railway Station
•Hotel
•Passport Office/ Consulates and Embassies
•Shopping Mall
•Post office
•Police Station
•Library

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Book of Synonyms by P. Gopalakrishnan
  • An Interactive Grammar of Modern English by Shivendra K. Verma and Hemlatha Nagarajan
  • Communicative English – A Basic Course in Spoken and Written English by Sunney and Tharappan
  • Everyday English: A Course on Communicative English (Level 2) by Dorothy Adams, Michelle Crawford, Rachel Finnie, Jasdeep Kaur, Katrina Gormley
  • Developing Communication Skills by Krishnamohan and Meera Bannerjee
  • Speaking English Effectively by Krishnamohan and N.P. Singh
Academic Year: 
2016-2017