HS8151 Syllabus

 HS8151
COMMUNICATION ENGLISH SYLLABUS

UNIT I 

SHARING INFORMATION RELATED TO ONESELF/FAMILY& FRIENDS 
Reading- short comprehension passages, practice in skimming-scanning and predicting- Writing completing sentences- – developing hints. Listening- short texts- short formal and informal conversations. Speaking- introducing oneself – exchanging personal information- Language development- Wh- Questions- asking and answering-yes or no questions- parts of speech.
Vocabulary development– prefixes- suffixes- articles.- count/ uncount nouns.

UNIT II 

GENERAL READING AND FREE WRITING 
Reading – comprehension-pre-reading-post reading- comprehension questions (multiple choice                                                      questions and /or short questions/ open-ended questions)-inductive reading- short narratives and descriptions from newspapers including dialogues and conversations (also used as short Listening texts)- register- Writing – paragraph writing- topic sentence- main ideas- free writing, short narrative descriptions using some suggested vocabulary and structures –Listening- telephonic conversations. Speaking – sharing information of a personal kind—greeting – taking leaveLanguage development – prepositions, conjunctions Vocabulary development- guessing meanings of words in context.

UNIT III 

GRAMMAR AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 
Reading- short texts and longer passages (close reading) Writing- understanding text structureuse of reference words and discourse markers-coherence-jumbled sentences Listening – listening to longer texts and filling up the table- product description- narratives from different sources. Speaking- asking about routine actions and expressing opinions. Language developmentdegrees
of comparison- pronouns- direct vs indirect questions- Vocabulary development – single word substitutes- adverbs.

UNIT IV 

READING AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 
Reading- comprehension-reading longer texts- reading different types of texts- magazines Writing- letter writing, informal or personal letters-e-mails-conventions of personal emailListening- listening to dialogues or conversations and completing exercises based on them. Speaking- speaking about oneself- speaking about one‘s friend- Language development Tenses- simple present-simple past- present continuous and past continuous- Vocabulary development- synonyms-antonyms- phrasal verbs

UNIT V 

EXTENDED WRITING 
Reading- longer texts- close reading –Writing- brainstorming -writing short essays – developing an outline- identifying main and subordinate ideas- dialogue writing-Listening – listening to talksconversations- Speaking – participating in conversations- short group conversations-Language development-modal verbs- present/ past perfect tense – Vocabulary development-collocationsfixed
and semi-fixed expressions.