Proficiency in English

Proficiency in English

Unit-1: Need and Importance of English

• English as a global language.
• English around us.
• Constitutional provision – English as an associate official language.
• Proficiency versus achievement in English.

Unit-2: Developing Oral Skills (Listening and Speaking)

• Importance of listening and speaking in acquiring proficiency in English.
• Identification and production of distinctive sounds in English – Syllable, stress, intonation and rhythm.
• Recognising words in various contexts.
• Identifying meaning/gist, identifying emotions/feelings in an utterance.
• Producing language in acceptable forms – conveying information, formulating an appropriate response.
• Presentation skill.

Unit-3: Developing Reading and Writing Skills

A)    Reading:

• Study Skill.
• Reading for local and global comprehension (including inferences and extrapolation).
• Extensive and intensive reading.
• Skimming and scanning.

B)    Writing

The focus of this section will be developing writing skills in the following:

• Mechanics of writing – strokes, curves, proper shape, size and spacing.
• Writing messages, descriptions, reports, notices, applications, letter, invitations, posters, slogans.
• Writing a paragraph having coherence, cohesion and unity.

Unit-4: Vocabulary Enrichment and Grammar in Context

A)    Vocabulary:

• Words around us (list of active and passive words to identified, including phrasal verbs and idioms) using them in different contexts.
• Content words and function words.
• Antonyms, synonyms, homophones, homonyms.
• Word formation (using prefixes and suffixes, etc.)

B)    Grammar in Context:

• Need and importance of Grammar: Notion of correctness versus notion of appropriateness.
• Traditional grammar versus Grammar in Context
• Grammatical items – Types of sentences, Time and tense, parts of speech, subject verb agreement, transformation of sentences (including voices, direct and agreement, transformation of sentences (including voices, direct and indirect speech, etc.), linkers, modals, prepositions and prepositional phrases.