FACULTY OF ARTS
Value Added Elective Course
VAAR - 012- Speaking and Writing English Effectively:
A Practical Course
Objectives:
This course aims to prepare students to communicate effectively in both speaking and
writing in various professional contexts. In order to achieve this, students will be given
intensive training to acquire the forms and proper register for telephone communication,
greetings and introductions, and formal and informal presentations, and to master the
forms and proper register for writing emails, reports, and formal proposals, business
letters, research papers and articles and the preparation of letters of introduction to
accompany Curriculum Vitae for job applications.
Speaking Skills
Unit – I
Learning the Sounds of English
Production of Speech
Characteristics of Voice
Organization of Speech
(from Speaking English Effectively by Krishna Mohan & N.P. Singh)
Unit – II
Modes of Delivery
Speeches for Special Occasion
Motivation and Personality Development
Pronouncing individual sounds
(from Speaking English Effectively by Krishna Mohan & N.P. Singh)
Acquiring the right intonation (Practice Material by course teacher)
Developing conversational ability (Practice Material by course teacher)
Unit – III
Public Speaking and Oral Presentation (from Developing Communication Skills by
Krishna Mohan & Meera Banerji)
Role Play (Practice Material by course teacher)
Welcome Address – Vote of Thanks – Inaugural address – Speeches based on situations –
Immortal speeches by various personalities (Models chosen by course teacher)
Writing Skills
Unit – IV
Correct English Usage Tests: Building Blocks – Spotting Errors – Sentence Improvement
Vocabulary Tests: Building Blocks – Test of Synonyms – Test of Antonyms – Test of
Analogy (From Objective English by Edgar Thorpe & Showik Thorpe)
Unit – V
English Proficiency Tests: One Word Substitutions – Idioms and Phrases – Idiomatic Use
of Verbs – Cloze Tests (From Objective English by Edgar Thorpe & Showik Thorpe)
Written Communication: Business Correspondence – Job Applications with Letetrs of
introduction and Curriculum Vitae – Technical Proposals – Research Paper and Articles –
Advertising and Job Description (from Developing Communication Skills by Krishna
Mohan & Meera Banerji)
Text Books:
Mohan, Krishna and Banerji, Meera. Developing Communication Skills. New Delhi,
Trinity Press, 2015.
Mohan, Krishna and Banerji, Meera. Speaking English Effectively. New Delhi,
Trinity Press, 2015.
Thorpe, Edgar and Thorpe, Shovik. Objective English. 6
th Ed. New Delhi: Pearson, 2016.
Value Added Elective Course
VAAR - 012- Speaking and Writing English Effectively:
A Practical Course
Objectives:
This course aims to prepare students to communicate effectively in both speaking and
writing in various professional contexts. In order to achieve this, students will be given
intensive training to acquire the forms and proper register for telephone communication,
greetings and introductions, and formal and informal presentations, and to master the
forms and proper register for writing emails, reports, and formal proposals, business
letters, research papers and articles and the preparation of letters of introduction to
accompany Curriculum Vitae for job applications.
Speaking Skills
Unit – I
Learning the Sounds of English
Production of Speech
Characteristics of Voice
Organization of Speech
(from Speaking English Effectively by Krishna Mohan & N.P. Singh)
Unit – II
Modes of Delivery
Speeches for Special Occasion
Motivation and Personality Development
Pronouncing individual sounds
(from Speaking English Effectively by Krishna Mohan & N.P. Singh)
Acquiring the right intonation (Practice Material by course teacher)
Developing conversational ability (Practice Material by course teacher)
Unit – III
Public Speaking and Oral Presentation (from Developing Communication Skills by
Krishna Mohan & Meera Banerji)
Role Play (Practice Material by course teacher)
Welcome Address – Vote of Thanks – Inaugural address – Speeches based on situations –
Immortal speeches by various personalities (Models chosen by course teacher)
Writing Skills
Unit – IV
Correct English Usage Tests: Building Blocks – Spotting Errors – Sentence Improvement
Vocabulary Tests: Building Blocks – Test of Synonyms – Test of Antonyms – Test of
Analogy (From Objective English by Edgar Thorpe & Showik Thorpe)
Unit – V
English Proficiency Tests: One Word Substitutions – Idioms and Phrases – Idiomatic Use
of Verbs – Cloze Tests (From Objective English by Edgar Thorpe & Showik Thorpe)
Written Communication: Business Correspondence – Job Applications with Letetrs of
introduction and Curriculum Vitae – Technical Proposals – Research Paper and Articles –
Advertising and Job Description (from Developing Communication Skills by Krishna
Mohan & Meera Banerji)
Text Books:
Mohan, Krishna and Banerji, Meera. Developing Communication Skills. New Delhi,
Trinity Press, 2015.
Mohan, Krishna and Banerji, Meera. Speaking English Effectively. New Delhi,
Trinity Press, 2015.
Thorpe, Edgar and Thorpe, Shovik. Objective English. 6
th Ed. New Delhi: Pearson, 2016.
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