Essential & Applied Language Skill

Paper Code: 
EFT- 100
Credits: 
02
Contact Hours: 
30.00
Objective: 

Reinforcing selected components of grammar and usage
Strengthening compositional skills( for letter and paragraph-writing)
Facilitating comprehension of short-stories
Enabling students to consult a dictionary for correct pronunciation (sounds & word-stress)

6.00
Unit I: 
Vocabulary & Phonetics

Synonyms and Antonyms
Word Formation: Prefix and Suffix
Word stress (Marking stress in words written in normal orthography)

8.00
Unit II: 
Grammar and Usage

Transformation of Sentences
• Direct and Indirect Narration
• Interchange of Degrees of Comparison Modals
Modals
Sequence of Tenses

4.00
Unit III: 
Comprehension

Comprehension of an unseen passage

6.00
Unit IV: 
Compositional Skills

Letters: Formal and Informal
CVs and Job Application
Precie-Writing

6.00
Unit V: 
Professional and Writing Skills

Dialogue- writing
Editing a short text (focusing on grammar, coherence and cohesion)

Essential Readings: 
  1. A. University Grammar of English by Quirk & Greenbaum (O. Longman) 1973
  2. A Foundation English Course for Undergraduates Ed. Gunashekar, Book 1, CIEFL, Hyderabad
  3. Prose for Pleasure and Comprehension by H. G. Suryanarayana Rao (OUP)
  4.  A Guide to Patterns and Usage by A. S. Hornby
  5. Cvs & Job Applications by Judith Leigh (OUP, 2001)
  6. English at Workplace (Eds, Panja Sawhney & Verma, Macmillan, 2006)
  7.  Professional Communication by R. P.Singh (OUP, 2004)
  8. English made Simply by Arthur Waldhorn & Arthur Zeiger (Made Simple Books, Garden City, New York, 1991)
  9. The Written Word by VAndana R. Singh (OUP)
  10. The Mind’s Eye by Allan Maley, A.Duff and F. Grellet (CUP, 1980)
  11.  An Immediate English Grammer by C.D. Siddhu (O.Longman)
     
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