Class Work : 50 Marks 

Exam : 100 Marks

Section A 

Communicative Grammar: Spotting the errors pertaining to parts of speech, nouns, pronouns, adjective, adverbs, preposition, conjunction, genders, infinitives, participles, form of tenses, use of articles ; Concord – grammatical concord, notional concord and the principle of proximity between subject and verb and other exceptional usages. 

Lexis: Idioms and phrases; Words often confused; One-Word Substitutes; Foreign Words (A selected list may be included for all the above components); Formation of words (suffixes, prefixes and derivatives). 

Section B 

Oral Communication: 

Part-A: Introduction to principal components of spoken English – Word-stress patterns, Intonation, Weak forms in English 

Part-B: Developing listening and speaking skills through various activities, such as (a) role play activities, (b) Practising short dialogues (c) Group discussion (d) Debates (e) Speeches (f) Listening to news bulletins (g) Viewing and reviewing T.V. programmes etc. 

Section C 

Written Communication: 

Developing reading and writing skills through such tasks/activities as developing outlines, key expressions, situations, slogan writing and theme building exercises 

Reading verbal and non-verbal texts-like cartoons, Graphs and tabulated data etc. 

Technical Writing: 

(a) Business Letters, Format of Business letters and Business letter writing-Fully-blocked layout may be used. 

(b) E-mail writing 

(c) Reports, Types of Reports and Format of Formal Reports 

(d) Press Report Writing 

Section D 

(For Internal Evaluation Only): 

Book Review – Herein the students will be required to read and submit a review of a book (Literary or non-literary) of their own choice. This will be followed by a presentation of the same in the class

Suggested Reading: 

Language in Use (Upper intermediate Level, Adrian Doff Christopher Jones, Cambridge University Press 

Common Errors in English, Abul Hashem, Ramesh Publishing House, new Delhi. 

Objective English, Tata Mc. Graw Hill Publishing Company Ltd., New Delhi. 

Spoken English for India, R.K. Bansal & J.B. Harrison, Orient Longman, Delhi. 

The sounds of English, Veena Kumar, Makaav Educational Software, New Delhi. 

English Phonetics & Phonology, P. Roach, Cambridge University Press, London. 

English for Engineers and Technologists: A Skill Approach, Vol. 2, Orient Longman,Delhi. 

Business Communication, M.S. Ramesh and C.C. Pattanshetti, R.Chand and Company, Delhi 

Group Discussion, Sudha Publications/Ramesh Publishing House, New Delhi. 

Essentials of English Grammar and Composition by N. K. Aggarwal, Goyal Brother Prakashan, Educational Publishers, New Delhi. 

Handbook of English grammar and Usage by Mark Lester and Lerry Beasen, Tata Mc Graw-Hill, New Delhi. 

Business correspondence and report writing, by R. C. Sharma and Krishna Mohan, Tata Mc. Graw Hill Publishing Company Ltd., New Delhi.

Note :- 

Examiner will set 9 questions in total, with two questions from each section and one question covering all sections which will be Q.1. This Q.1 is compulsory and of short answers type. Each question carries equal mark (20 marks). Students have to attempt 5 questions in total.