COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH
(Common to All Branches of Engineering)
Course Objectives:
The main objective of introducing this course, Communicative English, is to facilitate effective listening,
Reading, Speaking and Writing skills among the students. It enhances the same in their comprehending
abilities, oral presentations, reporting useful information and providing knowledge of grammatical
structures and vocabulary. This course helps the students to make them effective in speaking and writing
skills and to make them industry ready.
Course Outcomes:
CO1: Understand the content, topic, and pieces of specific information from social Transactional
dialogues.
CO2: Apply grammatical structures to formulate sentences and correct word forms.
CO3: Analyze discourse markers to speak clearly on a specific topic in informal discussions.
CO4: Evaluate reading / listening texts and to write summaries based on global comprehension of these
texts.
CO5: Create a coherent paragraph, essay and resume.
UNIT I
Lesson: HUMAN VALUES: Gift of Magi (Short Story)
Listening: Identifying the topic, the context and specific pieces of information by listening to short audio
texts and answering a series of questions.
Speaking: Asking and answering general questions on familiar topics such as home, family, work, studies
and interests; introducing oneself and others.
Reading: Skimmimg to get the main idea of a text; scanning to look for specific pieces of information.
Writing: Mechanics of Writing-Capitalization,Spellings, Punctuation-Parts of Sentences.
Grammar: Parts of Speech, Basic Sentence Structures-forming questions
Vocabulary: Synonyms, Antonyms, Affixes ( Prefixes/ Suffixes), Root words.
UNIT II
Lesson: NATURE: The Brook by Alfred Tennyson (Poem)
Listening: Answering a series of questions about main ideas and supporting ideas after listening to audio
texts.
Speaking: Discussion in pairs/ small groups on specific topics followed by short structure talks.
Reading: Identifying sequence of ideas, recognizing verbal techniques that help to link the ideas in a
paragraph together.
Writing: Structure of a paragraph- Paragraph writing (specific topics)
Grammar: Cohesive devices- linkers, use of articles and zero article; prepositions.
Vocabulary: Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs.
UNIT III
Lesson: BIOGRAPHY: Elon Musk
Listening: Listening for global comprehension and summarizing What is listened to.
Speaking: Discussing specific topics in pairs or small groups and reporting what is discussed.
Reading: Reading a text in detail by making basic inferences –recognizing and interpreting specific
context clues; strategies to use text clues for comprehension.
Writing: Summarizing, Note-making, paraphrasing
Grammar: Verbs – tenses; subject-verb agreement: Compound words, Collocations
Vocabulary: Compound words, Collocations.
UNIT IV
Lesson: INSPIRATION: The Toys of Peace by Saki
Listening: Making predictions while listening to comprehensions/ transactional dialogues without video;
listening with video.
Speaking: Role plays for practice of conversational English in academic contexts (formal and informal) –
asking for and giving information/directions.
Reading: Studying the use of graphic elements in texts to convey information, reveal
trends/patterns/relationships, communicate processes or display complicated data.
Writing: Letter Writing: Official Letters, Resumes
Grammar: Reporting verbs, Direct & Indirect speech, Active & Passive Voice.
Vocabulary: Words often confused, Jargons
UNIT V
Lesson:
MOTIVATION: The Power of Intrapersonal Communication (An Essay )
Listening: Identifying key terms, understanding concepts and answering a series of relevant questions that
test comprehension.
Speaking: Formal oral presentations on topics from academic contexts
Reading: Reading comprehension.
Writing: Writing structured essays on specific topics.
Grammar: Editing short texts -identifying and correcting common errors in grammar and usage
( articles, prepositions, tenses, subject verb agreement)
Vocabulary: Technical Jargons
Textbooks:
[Link]: Communicative English for Undergraduate: Student, 1st Edition, Orient Black Swan, 2023
(Units 1,2 & 3)
[Link] with Language by Cengage Publications, 2023 (Units 4 & 5)
Reference Books:
[Link], Sham Ji & Co. English for Engineers, Vikas Publishers, 2020
[Link], Stephen. Academic writing: A Handbook for International Students, ROUTLEDGE, 2014.
[Link], Raymond, English Grammar in Use, Fourth Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2019.
[Link], Norman. Word Power Made Easy- The Complete Handbook for Building a Superior Vocabulary.
Anchor, 2014.
Web Resources:
GRAMMAR:
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VOCABULARY
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