Jewellery Designing

Paper Code: 
EJD 100
Credits: 
2
Contact Hours: 
30.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  1. Improve their knowledge of grammar and fluency in oral and written production
  2. Get acquainted with the structures of phonetics and word stress
  3. Acquire compositional and editing skills 

 

6.00
Unit I: 
Vocabulary and Phonetics

                                                                      

Synonyms & Antonyms

Word Formation : Prefix & Suffix

Word-stress (marking stress in words written in normal orthography)

 

8.00
Unit II: 
Grammar and Usage

                                                                               

Transformation of Sentences:

       (i)  Direct & Indirect Narration

       (ii) Interchange of Degrees of Comparison

Modals

Sequence of Tenses

 

4.00
Unit III: 
Comprehension

                                                                                   

Comprehension of an unseen passage (including interpreting visual material,

       eg. Graphics, etc.)

6.00
Unit IV: 
Compositional Skills

                                                                                 

Letters     :  Formal & Informal                                                

CVs  & Job-Applications

Précis–Writing

 

6.00
Unit V: 
Professional Writing Skills

                                                                                

Dialogue-Writing

Editing a Short Text (focusing on grammar, coherence & cohesion)

 

Essential Readings: 
  • A University Grammar of English by Quirk & Greenbaum (O.Longman, 1973).
  • A Foundation English Course for Undergraduates (Ed. Gunashekar, Book 1, CIEFL, Hyderabad).
  • Prose for Pleasure and Comprehension by H.G.Suryanarayana Rao (OUP).
  • A Guide to Patterns & Usage by A.S.Hornby.
  • CVs & Job Applications by Judith Leigh(OUP, 2004)
  • English at the Workplace (Eds.Panja Sawhney & Verma, Macmillan, 2006)
  • Professional Communication by R.P. Singh (OUP, 2001)
  • English Made Simply by Arthur Waldhorn & Arthur Zeiger (Made Simple Books, Garden City, New York, 1991).
  • The Written Word by Vandana R. Singh (OUP)
  • The Mind’s Eye by Alan Maley, A. Duff and F. Grellet (CUP, 1980)
  • An Intermediate English Grammar by C.D. Siddhu (O. Longman)
Academic Year: 
2021-22
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