Department of Technical Education All Diploma Courses in Engineering and Technology Streams Second Semester ENGLISH COMMUNICATION Contact

Hrs./Week: 4 Contact Hrs. / Semester: 64

GOAL :

IMPROVEMENT OF ENGLISH COMMUNICATION SKILLS OF I OR II SEMESTER STUDENTS OF DIPLOMA COURSES IN ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY.

SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES: 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 2 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 3 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 4 4.1 READING SKILL The student is able to : Understand the difficult words and phrases in the lesson Use the words and phrases correctly in his own sentences Read the lesson properly without mistakes Read the given passage correctly. WRITING SKILL The student is able to Write the answers correctly to the questions on the lessons Write personal letters in the proper format without mistakes Use words and phrases in his own sentences write grammatically correct sentences. PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE OF GRAMMAR The student is able to Use verbs correctly Use various phrases appropriately Use interrogatives and negatives Convert active voice into passive and vice versa Frame questions, question tags and give short form answers correctly Use prepositions appropriately COMPREHENSION The student is able to read and understand the seen & unseen passages and answer the questions given CREATING AWARENESS The student becomes aware of current environmental issues and about his responsibilities toward environment factors. Awareness about Right to Information Act

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ENGLISH COMMUNICATION FOR POLYTECHNICS By NITTTR, Chennai and Published by Orient BlackSwan Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad. Total

GRAMMAR Ability Knowl Comp Applic Analys 2.1 PARTS OF SPEECHedge rehen ation is Content 2.2 COUNTABLE, UNCOUNTABLEsion PROPER; NOUNS AND 2.3 USE OF SOME, ANY, MUCH, MANY, A LOT OF, ETC., Lessons 2.4 MAIN AND AUXILIARY VERBS 25 5 10 2.5 USES OF TENSES Parts of speech 2 2.6 ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE 2.7 INTEROGATIVES Countable & Uncountable 2 2.8 NEGATIVES nouns 2.9 PREPOSITIONS 3.1 QUESTION TAGS Use of some, any etc. 6 3.2 USE OF ADVERB TOO 3.3 USING PHRASES IN OWN SENTENCES Main & Aux. verbs 2 3 COMPOSITION & COMPREHENSION Uses of Tenses 8 3.1 WRITING RESPONSE TO PICTURE 3.2 STORY FROM GIVEN OUTLINES Voice 4 3.3 EXPANDING OUTLINES INTO PARAGRAPH Interrogatives PARAGRAPH WRITING USING HINTS 2 3.4 3.5 COMPREHENSION OF UNSEEN PASSAGE Negatives3.6 NOTE MAKING 2 3.7 DEVELOPING NOTES INTO PARAGRAPHS Prepositions SUMMERISING 4 3.8 Question tags 2

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MONTHLY TESTS Use of adverb too 2 READING AND COMPREHENSION EVALUATION Use of idioms & phrases Story from outlines Developing notes into a paragraph Comprehension of unseen passage Summarising Total 13 32 40 5 5 15 4 5 5

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ENGLISH COMMUNICATION TABLE OF SPECIFICATIONS