1st Year B-Tech SYLLABUS
Listening Skills:
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Listening for general content.
Listening to fill up information.
Intensive listening.
Listening for specific information.
Speaking Skills:
1. Oral Practice
2. Describing Objects/situations/people.
3. Role Play-Individual/Group activities(using exercises from all the nine units of the prescribed
text)
4. Just A Minute (JAM) Sessions.
Reading Skills:
Skimming the text.
1. Understanding the gist of an argument.
2. Identifying the topic sentence.
3. Inferring lexical and contextual meaning.
4. Understanding discourse features.
5. Recognizing coherence/sequencing of sentences.
NOTE: The students should get trained in reading skills using the prescribed text for detailed text for
detailed study. They will be examined in reading and answering questions using ‘unseen’ passages
which may be taken from the non-detailed text or other authentic texts, such as exact
magazines/newspaper articles.
Writing Skills:
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Writing sentences.
Use of appropriate vocabulary.
Paragraph writing.
Coherence and cohesiveness.
Narration/description.
Note Making.
Formal and informal letter writing.
Editing a passage.
TEXT BOOKS PRESCRIBED SYLLABUS:
UNIT-I
1 Heaven’s Gate (detailed book)
1 Haragovind Khorana (non-detailed book - lives)
UNIT-II
2 Sir C.V.Raman (detailed book)
3 Sam Pitroda (non-detailed book - lives)
UNIT-III
3 The Connoisseur (detailed book)
4 Mother Teresa (non-detailed book - lives)
UNIT-IV
4. The Cuddalore Experience (detailed book)
2. Amartya Kumar San (non-detailed book - lives)
UNIT-V
4 Bubbling Well Road (detailed book)
2 I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King (non-detailed book - Speeches)
UNIT-VI
6 The Odds against us (detailed book)
1 Ask Not What Your Country can do by John F. Kennedy (non-detailed book - Speeches)
UNIT-VIII
1. Reading and Writing Skills
2. Reading Comprehension
3. Situational Dialogues
4. Letter Writing
5. Essay Writing
UNIT-VIII a) Practice Exercises on Remedial Grammar Covering
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Common Errors in English
Subject-Verb agreement
Use of Articles
Use of Prepositions
Tense and Aspect
b) Vocabulary Development Covering
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Synonyms & Antonyms
One-word Substitutes
Prefixes & Suffixes
Idioms & Phrases
Words Often Confused