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.
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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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