English communication skills

Study Notes

Course Code: UGEC-201
Course Title: English Communication Skills-I
Credits: 3
Contact Hours: (L-T-P) 3-0-0
Course Objective: To enhance overall communication and interpersonal skills, focusing on oral and written English skills in professional contexts. Improve reading comprehension, vocabulary, and grammar. Develop exceptional speaking, reading, and writing skills, and enhance soft skills.
Course Outcomes: Apply non-verbal and soft skills effectively for listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Use correct contextual and comprehensible written text and speech. Demonstrate linguistic confidence through grammar, intonation, pronunciation, and vocabulary. Critically evaluate information as a speaker, writer, and reader.

Unit A - Grammar: Covers parts of speech (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions, interjections). Focuses on various tenses (simple present, simple past, simple future, present continuous, past continuous, future continuous, present perfect, past perfect, future perfect).
Unit B - Communication: Introduces communication, its significance, and factors. Covers perspectives of communication (meaning, language, visual perception, feelings, experiences). Details verbal and nonverbal communication.
Unit C - Writing: Focuses on essay writing (introduction, conclusion, body paragraphs), précis writing and summary, formal and informal letters, emails, and notice writing. Includes corporate writing and digital content, like blog writing.
Unit D - Reading and Listening: Explores listening skills (introduction, types, barriers), active listening, reading comprehension (survey, question, read, recite, review). Covers different reading techniques (skimming, scanning).
Unit E - Building Advanced Vocabulary: Focuses on phrases, idioms, frequently confused words, synonyms, and antonyms, and vocabulary building from texts.