Communicative English

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Communicative English [1]

Paper Code:

CEN 161

Credits:

05

Periods/week:

05

Max. Marks:

100

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

Tenses

Subject Verb Agreement

Use of Prepositions

Reported Speech

Active and Passive Voice

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

10.00

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:

Adams ,Dorothy & et.al. Everyday English: A Course on Communicative English (Level 2).New Delhi: Thomson Press,2009.Print.
Bannerjee, Meera and Krishnamohan. Developing Communication Skills Speaking English Effectively.New Delhi: Macmillan ,2000.Print.
P.N.Gopalkrishnan. Book of Synonyms. New Delhi: Authorpress,2006.Print.
Verma . K Shivendra and Hemlatha Nagarajan. An Interactive Grammar of Modern English. New Delhi: Frank Brothers,1995.Print.
Sunney and Tharappan. Communicative English – A Basic Course in Spoken and Written English.

Academic Year:

Source URL: https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/communicative-english-2

Links:
[1] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/communicative-english-2
[2] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2019-2020