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Unit 1:
Lesson-1: A Drawer full of happiness from “Infotech English”, Maruthi Publications
Lesson-2: Deliverance by Premchand from “The Individual Society”,Pearson Publications. (Non-detailed)
Listening: Listening to short audio texts and identifying the topic. Listening to prose, prose and conversation.
Speaking: Asking and answering general questions on familiar topics such as home, family, work, studies and interests. Self introductions and introducing others.
Reading: Skimming text to get the main idea. Scanning to look for specific pieces of information.
Reading for Writing: Paragraph writing (specific topics) using suitable cohesive devices; linkers, sign posts and transition signals; mechanics of writing - punctuation, capital letters.
Vocabulary: Technical vocabulary from across technical branches (20) GRE Vocabulary (20) (Antonyms and Synonyms, Word applications) Verbal reasoning and sequencing of words.
Grammar: Content words and function words; word forms: verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs; nouns: countables and uncountables; singular and plural basic sentence structures; simple question form - wh-questions; word order in sentences.
Pronunciation: Vowels, Consonants, Plural markers and their realizations.
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Unit 2:
Lesson-1: Nehru’s letter to his daughter Indira on her birthday from “Infotech English”, Maruthi Publications
Lesson-2: Bosom Friend by Hira Bansode from “The Individual Society”, Pearson Publications.(Non-detailed)
Listening: Answering a series of questions about main idea and supporting ideas after listening to audio texts, both in speaking and writing.
Speaking: Discussion in pairs/ small groups on specific topics followed by short structured talks. Functional English: Greetings and leave takings.
Reading: Identifying sequence of ideas; recognizing verbal techniques that help to link the ideas in a paragraph together.
Reading for Writing: Summarizing - identifying main idea/s and rephrasing what is read; avoiding redundancies and repetitions.
Vocabulary: Technical vocabulary from across technical branches (20 words). GRE Vocabulary Analogies (20 words) (Antonyms and Synonyms, Word applications)
Grammar: Use of articles and zero article; prepositions.
Pronunciation: Past tense markers, word stress-di-syllabic words
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Unit 3:
Lesson-1: Stephen Hawking-Positivity ‘Benchmark’ from “Infotech English”, Maruthi Publications
Lesson-2: Shakespeare’s Sister by Virginia Woolf from “The Individual Society”, Pearson Publications.(Non-detailed)
Listening:Listening for global comprehension and summarizing what is listened to, both in speaking and writing.
Speaking: Discussing specific topics in pairs or small groups and reporting what is discussed. Functional English: Complaining and Apologizing.
Reading: Reading a text in detail by making basic inferences - recognizing and interpreting specific context clues; strategies to use text clues for comprehension.Critical reading.
Reading for Writing: Summarizing - identifying main idea/s and rephrasing what is read; avoiding redundancies and repetitions. Letter writing-types, format and principles of letter writing.E-mail etiquette, Writing CV’s.
Vocabulary: Technical vocabulary from across technical branches (20 words). GRE Vocabulary (20 words) (Antonyms and Synonyms, Word applications) Association, sequencing of words
Grammar: Verbs - tenses; subject-verb agreement; direct and indirect speech, reporting verbs for academic purposes.
Pronunciation: word stress-poly-syllabic words
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Unit 4:
Lesson-1: Liking a Tree, Unbowed: Wangari Maathai-biography from “Infotech English”, Maruthi Publications
Lesson-2: Telephone Conversation-Wole Soyinka from “The Individual Society”, Pearson Publications.(Non-detailed)
Listening: Making predictions while listening to conversations/ transactional dialogues without video (only audio); listening to audio-visual texts.
Speaking: Role plays for practice of conversational English in academic contexts (formal and informal) - asking for and giving information/directions.Functional English: Permissions, Requesting, Inviting.
Reading: Studying the use of graphic elements in texts to convey information, reveal trends/patterns/relationships, communicative process or display complicated data.
Reading for Writing: Information transfer; describe, compare, contrast, identify significance/trends based on information provided in figures/charts/graphs/tables.Writing SOP, writing for media.
Vocabulary: Technical vocabulary from across technical branches (20 words) GRE Vocabulary (20 words) (Antonyms and Synonyms, Word applications) Cloze Encounters.
Grammar: Quantifying expressions - adjectives and adverbs; comparing and contrasting; degrees of comparison; use of antonyms
Pronunciation: Contrastive Stress
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Unit 5:
Lesson-1: Stay Hungry-Stay foolish from “Infotech English”, Maruthi Publications
Lesson-2: Still I Rise by Maya Angelou from “The Individual Society”, Pearson Publications.(Non-detailed)
Listening: Identifying key terms, understanding concepts and interpreting the concepts both in speaking and writing.
Speaking: Formal oral presentations on topics from academic contexts - without the use of PPT slides. Functional English: Suggesting/Opinion giving.
Reading: Reading for comprehension. RAP StrategyIntensive reading and Extensive reading techniques.
Reading for Writing: Writing academic proposals- writing research articles: format and style.
Vocabulary: Technical vocabulary from across technical branches (20 words) GRE Vocabulary (20 words) (Antonyms and Synonyms, Word applications) Coherence, matching emotions.
Grammar: Editing short texts – identifying and correcting common errors in grammar and usage (articles, prepositions, tenses, subject verb agreement)
Pronunciation: Stress in compound words
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