21ENG101 Communicative English–

Unit I-

Kinds of sentences, Word Order, usage of preposition, use of adjectives, adverbs for description, Determiners- Agreement (Subject – Verb, Pronoun- Antecedent) collocation

Unit II-

Tenses, Reported speech, Active and passive Voice, Phrasal Verbs, Linkers/ Discourse Markers, Question Tags

Unit III-

Paragraph writing – Cohesion – Development: definition, comparison, classification, contrast, cause and effect – Essay writing: Descriptive and Narrative

Unit IV–

Reading Comprehension – Skimming and scanning- inference and deduction – Reading different kinds of material –Speaking: Narration of incidents / stories / anecdotes- Current News Awareness

Unit V–

Nirad C Chaudhuri “Indian Crowds” [Non-Detailed]
Dr S Radhakrishnan “The Shaping of my Character”[Detailed]
Charles Lamb” Dream Children” [Detailed]
Ruskin Bond “Night Train at Deoli” [Non-Detailed]
Rabindranath Tagore “Subha” [Non-Detailed]
Agra Gra “And you call me coloured” [Detailed]
Alfred Lord Tennyson “Ulysses” [Detailed]

CORE READING:

1. Ruskin Bond, Time Stops at Shamli and Other Stories, Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 1989
2. Syamala, V. Speak English in Four Easy Steps, Improve English Foundation Trivandrum: 2006
3. Online sources
4. M Nagarajan, T Sashisekaran, S Ramamurthy Indian Prose for Effective Communication
   : A Practical Programme for Colleges Trinity Press (An imprint of Laxmi Publications Pvt. Ltd.
   References:
5. Ruskin Bond, Time Stops at Shamli and Other Stories, Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 1989
6. Martinet, Thomson, A Practical English Grammar, IV Ed. OUP, 1986.
7. Murphy, Raymond, Murphy’s English Grammar, CUP, 2004