ENGLISH BRIDGE COURSE
LISTENING CHOICE OF TEXTS: 1. Interesting and relevant texts: Based on the learners level of proficiency of English. 2. Creating listening text: Clear recording and live speeches. 3. Variety should be provided in the listening texts. 4. Movie clips/ Short films/ Documentary 5. Commentaries. TASKS: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Yes/no questions Note taking & Summarizing. Gap filling activities A to Z website lyrics: they can listen and fill up the blanks. A student may be asked to speak on a topic and others may ask queries. Listening for specific information Listening and narrating Comprehension checks Picking out difficult/ unfamiliar words.
SPEAKING TASKS: 1. One minute presentation with adequate time given for the students preparation. 2. Self introduction 3. Spin a yarn 4. Vocabulary- Word games 5. Online tasks- Speaking and Vocabulary 6. Situational/ Classroom learning with language lab 7. Working in pairs: introducing the partner. (Interactive Self Introduction) 8. Role play 9. Dialogues 10. Group Discussion 11. Narrating a story 12. Speak about a movie, trip, a real incident, or any current issues. 13. Simulation: Giving the students a situation and they have to develop the conversation. 14. Description of common place/ items. 15. Giving directions 16. Extempore
17. Shipwreck 18. Mock interview 19. Structured format for welcome address & vote of thanks. 20. Speak about a picture given. VOCABULARY TASKS: 1. Word building 2. Mind mapping 3. Crossword puzzles 4. Deciphering the contextual meaning 5. Prefix/ suffix 6. Vocabulary/ word games 7. Anagrams 8. Illustrating pictures with interpretation 9. One word substitute 10. Synonyms & Antonyms 11. Cloze exercise 12. Alternate words (Policeman, Cop) 13. Reading newspaper 14. Referring dictionary 15. Making sentences with words given 16. Idioms and phrases 17. Abbreviations 18. Acronyms 19. Frequently used words 20. Compound words 21. Proverbs 22. Phrasal verbs GRAMMAR 1. Subject verb concord 2. Tenses (Tense conversions) 3. Preposition (Sentence completion with supplying proper preposition) 4. Articles 5. Voice 6. Pictorial representation 7. Extracting and identifying parts of speech from the passage 8. Parts of speech 9. Framing questions 10. Discourse model for teaching of grammar.
READING 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Magazines, newspaper, novels , short stories Biographies of scientists Know your English from The Hindu Advertisements and ask for specific information, to identify the instructions Trans coding- showing figures, cartoons and British council materials Competitive exam reading exercises- [Link], [Link] for [Link]
WRITING 1. Mind mapping 2. Hints development 3. Describing directions 4. Jumble sentences- identify the topic sentence 5. Appropriate discourse markers 6. Outline writing 7. picture description 8. paraphrasing 9. sequencing words 10. note making 11. reference words 12. developing sentence 13. use of connectives 14. complete an incomplete letter 15. flow chart 16. instructions 17. recommendations 18. checklist 19. substitution tables 20. paragraph writing 21. gap filling TESTING 1. [Link] 2. cloze reading 3. group discussion 4. Just a Minute 5. role play 6. self introduction 7. framing questions 8. extempore 9. gap filling 10. true or false 11. multiple choice
12. letter writing 13. two to three minute presentation 14. listen and retell 15. recorded speech 16. criteria for Assessing speaking fluency- 10 (task- fulfillment) organization of ideas -10 ( coherence) pronunciation ( articulation of individual sounds) grammar ( spoken) vocabulary 17. criteria for assessing writing task fulfillment- 10 (has the paragraph essay addressed the question given? Cohesion and coherence (10) has the student used suitable discourse markers and connecting words to link ideas in the paragraph and have ideas been organized suitably Grammar & vocabulary (10) Spelling- density INTEGRATING FOUR SKILLS 1. Designing & presenting a product advertisement 2. Poster designing 3. Interviewing a celebrity 4. Picture Perception 5. Film review 6. Accident reports 7. Project presentation: Students are asked to visit to any industry or manufacturing unit. They are supposed to collect information from the industry, write a report, and present it to the class.