A Coursebook on English 

This book was published in 2009 by Scitech Publications, Chennai. The copyright is with me.

Like the previous five coursebooks, this book can also be modified to suit the English learning needs of Arts and Science students of UG courses.

You may find the pages from this book acceptable. If you do, please recommend this to a publisher in your area so students can benefit.

Thanks in advance.

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 A Course Book on English follows the syllabus prescribed by JNTU. This is in two parts.

Part I

Unit 1—lisening skills: introduction, definition, need for listening, barriers to listening, need

              for training, exercises

Unit 2—speaking skills: introduction, oral presentation, extempore speaking exercise,

              describing objects/situations/people, exercises, role play, have a problem?, aim for

              accuracy, dialogues for practice (with 32 pairs of dialogues in boxes entitled 

              ‘fluency’ and ‘accuracy’), relationships, discussing as a group

Unit 3—reading skills: passages

              writing skills: sentence formation and building, paragraph writing and building,

                                     formatting, essay writing, note-taking, formal and informal letters,

                                     editing

Unit 4—practice exercises on remedial grammar

Unit 5—vocabulary (idioms, homophones etc)

Part II

English Language Communication Skills Lab

Sounds of English (with diagrammatic representation of tongue positions and words practice), tongue twisters, situational dialogues, oral presentation, paper presentations. Information transfer, debate, sample conversations, telephone skills and etiquette

The book is accompanied by a free CD consisting of 17 tracks:

                   Introduction— Track 00

1. Listening skills

     Ex.1—pasages 1—10—Track One

     Ex.2—passages 11-12—Track Two

     Ex.3—passages 13—15—Track Three

     Ex.4—passages 1—4—Track Four

2. Pronunciation, accent and intonation

    1—4 pure vowels            Track Five

    5—8 pure vowels            Track Six

    9—12 pure vowels          Track Seven

    Minimal pairs                  Track Eight

    8 diphthongs                    Track Nine

    Difficult consonant sounds Track Ten

    Commonly mispronounced words—1 Track Eleven

    Commonly mispronounced words—2 Track Twelve

    Words with accent                                Track Thirteen

    ‘Rhythm’ of the English language       Track Fourteen

    ‘Stress’ for meaning change                 Track Fifteen

    Three ‘tones’                                        Track Sixteen

3. Conversation practice

    Telephone conversations                       Track Seventeen

    Conversations in context                       Track Eighteen

    Giving directions                                   Track Nineteen 

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