Theory:
Text for Comprehension
1. War Minus Shooting – The Sporting Spirit (George Orwell)
(a) Reading comprehension
(b) Vocabulary-Synonyms, Antonyms, and often confused words
c) Exercises to help the students in the enrichment of vocabulary-based TOEFL and GRE and other competitive examinations.
2. A Dilemma -A Layman Looks at Science (Raymond B. Fosdick)
(a) Reading comprehension
6) Vocabulary – Homonyms and Homophones
(c) Exercises on Figurative Language & Idiomatic Language (e.g., dust and ashes, doorstep of doom, boundaries of knowledge, apple of one’s eye, in a fix, etc.).
3. You and Your English – Spoken English and Broken English (G.B. Show)
(a) Reading comprehension
(6) Language study, Functional Grammar, Agreement of Verb with subject
Grammar
4. Functional Grammar-2
(a) Articles
(b) Prepositions
(c) Verb
(d) Subject-verb Agreement
(e) Direct and Indirect Narration
Text for Communication Skills
5. Writing skills -3
(a) Letter writing – Mechanics of good letter, Effective Business correspondence, Personal correspondence.
(b) Report writing – Reports of events, meetings, experiments, business, etc.
(c) Paragraph writing.
(d) Precis writing
(e) Preparation of Curriculum vitae and Job applications.
(f) Interviews: Kinds, Importance and Process
