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Exercises Proposed for teaching in (Jan – June, 2016 Semester)

1.  Name of the Teacher : Narang Rija

2.  Department : Management & Humanities

3.  Course Title : English make-up class

4.  Course code : ---

5.  Course hand out (in reference to framed & approved syllabus) (maximum 500 words):

Objective of the course: To improve students’ vocabulary, grammar, and reading skills through in-class learning activities and self-study. To enable students to understand English grammar structure and communicate better in social and academic situations.

Course structure:

Total no. of classes- 30

Days / Topic / Contents
1 / Parts of speech / Nouns
2 / Pronouns
3 / Adjectives
4 / Verbs
5 / Adverbs
6 / Prepositions
7 / Conjunctions
8 / Articles
9 / Modal verbs / May, might; can, could
10 / Shall, should; will, would
11 / Must, should, ought to
12 / Be, do, have, need (to), used to, dare
13 / Exercises/ Test
14 / Applied grammar and usage / Tenses (Simple present, present perfect, past perfect, future progressive, future perfect, past perfect continuous, future perfect continuous)
15
16 / Clause (Noun clauses, adjective clauses, adverbial clauses, relative clauses)
17 / Active – passive voice, Direct – indirect speech
18 / Question tags, Punctuation marks (full stop, comma, dash, hyphen, semicolon, colon, apostrophe, exclamation mark, capital letters)
19 / Exercises/ Test
20 / Vocabulary / Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, homophones
Prefixes/ affixes
Idiomatic expressions
Superlatives
Exercises/ Test
21
22
23
24
25 / Functional practices (Speaking/ writing) / Describing people and things
Expressing opinions,
Comparing and contrasting,
Persuading and convincing
26
27
28 / Literature reading/ activities
29 / Presentation
30 / Presentation

6.  Books/Literature to be followed:

(a)  Books (Min. 2 texts + 3 references)

(i)  Title : Understanding and Using English Grammar

Author : Betty Schrampfer Azar

Publisher : Pearson

Edition : 3rd

(ii)  Title : Oxford English Grammar

Author : Sidney Greenbaum

Publisher : Oxford

Edition : Indian Edition

(iii)  Title : Penguin Guide to Punctuation

Author : R L Trask

Publisher : Penguin

Edition : International edition

(iv)  Title : Improve your Written English

Author : Marion Field

Publisher : Jaico Publishing House

Edition : 1st

(v)  Title : Real Listening and Speaking

Author : Miles Craven,Craig Thaine, Sally Logan

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Edition : 1st

(b) Magazines/Journals (Minimum 5)

(i) Journal of English for Academic Purposes

(ii) TESOL Journal

(iii) Research Journal of English Language and Literature

(iv) Linguistic Insights- Studies in Language and Communication

(v) English Journal

7. Mode of Teaching: S. N. Bose

8. If the course is of practices, list the experiments to be offered: NA

Are the manuals ready for the experiments to be conducted? : NA

Remarks/ Endorsement by the HoD
With his /her signature with date / Name of the Teacher: Dr.Vijayakumar
Designation: Assistant Professor
Signature with Date: