Common Syllabus For Bba/Bca/ Btech English & Communication Skills
Common Syllabus For Bba/Bca/ Btech English & Communication Skills
Unit I: Lectures - 6
Everyday Conversations: Introducing self / others.
Asking about: Facilities around, Describing a person / thing, Weather
Asking For..: Help, Suggestions, Ideas, Directions, Advice
Reporting & Describing: Incidences, Personalities, Experiences, Wants & Needs
Points to cover: Vocabulary, grammar, Construction of sentences, listening
Methodology: Role plays, Videos, Classroom conversation, worksheets
UNIT I Lectures-4
Sentence synthesis :
Phrases and Clauses (Noun ,Adjective and Adverb phrases and clauses and where and
when to use them.)
Simple, Complex and Compound sentences (how to construct and when to use)
Usage and purpose of Infinitives, Participles and Gerunds (where and when to use)
Sequence of Tenses , Moods and Voice (where and when to use)
Problems with Auxiliaries and Modals (what does each one of them denote)
Reported Speech (Rewriting conversations in Reported Speech)
UNIT IV Lectures-5
Playing with words
Understanding the role Prefixation and Suffixation in word formation; transformation
from one part of the speech to another)
Vocabulary building activities(Learning words through Roots, Mnemonics and
Associations, Analogies)
Words with similar spellings or sounds and their meanings
Revisiting the rules of Punctuatation and Capitalisation
UNIT V Lectures-8
Magic of language
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Simple prepositions ;Compound prepositions, Phrase Prepositions
Composition, Reading Skills, Public speaking and Discussions
Precise writing(How to extract important information and express it in a way that it
gives appropriate gist of the given passage) )
Essay writing (Principles of Coherence ,Cohesion ,Continuity)
Reading Comprehensions Exercises (with focus on skimming and scanning)
Extempore (Will be conducted throughout the semester)
Group Discussions (Will be conducted throughout the semester)