English Essentials I

English Essentials – I

Course Objectives:

• Enhance learners’ listening and speaking skills to understand and deliver speeches effectively

• Equip students with the skills to write clear, coherent, and grammatically correct texts for various purposes.

• Strengthen the ability to comprehend, interpret, and analyse written English across diverse contexts.

Speaking Skills: Self-Introduction (Tenses, Adjectives) Expressing opinions (Subject-Verb Agreement), Participating in Conversations (Speech Acts - agreeing & disagreeing – synonyms and antonyms)

Suggested Activities: Self-Introduction, Just a Minute (JAM) Video recording, Situational role plays, Spell Bee, Word Substitution, Usage of Apps.

Listening Skills: Listening to Simple Conversations (Understanding tone and intent), Short Speeches / Stories, Extracting information, Pronunciation, Listening to Various Accents.

Suggested Activities: Listening and Repeating, Gap fill exercises, Note-taking

Reading Skills: Reading Strategies – (Skimming, scanning, predicting) intensive reading - short passages and long passages on suggested themes (Sentence Patterns, Prefixes and suffixes, idioms and phrases).

Activities: Reading - newspaper and digital articles, Cloze, Reading comprehension, note making and summarising,

Writing Skills: Word Substitution, Sentence Formation, Hints Development (Guided Writing), Writing Different Types of Paragraphs - (Sentence Structure) – Letter Writing

/ Emails (Informal)

Activities: Error Detection, Picture and poster description, Descriptive, Narrative and Comparative paragraphs, Brainstorming and Mind Mapping - Informal letters/ Emails

Weightage: Continuous Assessment: 40%, End Semester Examinations: 60%

Assessment Methodology: Quiz (10%), Assignments (20%), Speaking Task (10%), Reading Task (10%), Writing Task (10%), Internal Examinations (40%).

References:

1. Miller, K. Q., & Wahl, S. T. (2023). Business and Professional Communication: KEYS for Workplace Excellence (5th ed.). SAGE Publications.

2. Kumar, Sanjay & Pushpalatha. (2018). English Language and Communication Skills for Engineers. India: Oxford University Press.

3. Sharma, S., & Mishra, B. (2024). Communication Skills for Engineers and Scientists (2nd ed.). PHI Learning.

E-resources:

1. Cambridge English – https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/learning- english/grammar-and-vocabulary/

2. Perfect English Grammar – https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/

3. British Council – Learn English - https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar

4. Speechling – https://speechling.com/

5. mePro by Pearson – https://mepro.pearson.com/

6. TED Talks – https://www.ted.com/