Week 01: Aug 19 to 25
Formal and Informal Language - Learning English - techniques of LSWR - English as Second Language - Importance of Grammar - Reading newspapers - Listening to speeches - taking notes - the culture of writing - learning idioms - idiomatic language , Formal and informal language , Formal and Informal words, Useful formal and informal expressions, Slangs , Idioms
Grammar : Formal and informal language
Vocabulary: Various "English"
Tutorial: Speaking - Questioning the Stereotypes. Watch this Video
Week 2: Aug 26 to Sept 01
Verbs - Tenses - Agreement of the Verb with the Subject,- Agreement of the Verb 2 - Agreement of the Verb with the Subject 3 - vocabulary building with verbs - War terms in the poem , Talking about War - War and Peace vocabulary
Text: The Charge of the Light Brigade by Lord Alfred Tennyson, PPT War and Peace
Grammar : Verbs
Vocabulary: War and Peace
Idiom: Idioms from literature
Tutorial 01: Writing about War and Peace
Tutorial 02: Speaking about War and Peace
Week 3: Sept 02 to Sept 08
Phrasal Verbs and their uses - more idioms - sentence structures and phrasal verbs - words followed by prepositions - Prepositions, Prepositional Phrases
Text: Elephant and the Cassowary by Ruskin Bond, Watch this interview with transcript, Here's the transcript
Grammar Topics: Collocations and Phrasal Verbs, Prepositions
Tutorial 01: Find your Phrasal Verbs/prepositional phrases, Lecture on ZOO s and their importance
Tutorial 02: Writing Activity on phrasal verbs and subject-verb agreement
Week o4: Sept 09 to 15
How to Write about the past - past tense and various forms of the past - sentence structure - different kinds of sentences - sequence of tense in a sentence. Reading Exercises.
Text: Kunwar Singh from My India
Grammar Topics: Past tense and sentences
Tutorial 01: Group Activity: India Past and Present
Tutorial 02: Group Activity: India: Future
Padlet 01 Plot Structure
Padlet 02 Settings
PaDLET 03 Characters
Padlet 4 Significance
Week 05: Sept 16 to 22
Please bring your earphones. Listening Exercises - Why Listen - What to Listen - How to Listen? - Listening to news, interviews, commentary, debates, Listening to formal and informal speech, Describing tone, Some more tones
Here are four videos for you to listen to:
1. Ratan Tata
2. Sundar Pichai in US congress
Week 06: Sept 23 : Mid semester Week
Week 07 : Sept 30 to Oct 04
Writing and Writing Exercises - Sentences - Technical Writing (content - structure - formatting) - Speculative Writing - Writing Answers -
Reports (analysis, aims and objectives, arguments, knowledge processing) - Writing for the media
UN report, Wipro Annual report,
Digital Content regulation report,
Facebook Moderation Newspaper report
Cloud computing and insights (IBM)
Week 08 : Oct 05 - Oct 12
Week 09 : Sept 14 to Oct 19
Words - Vocabulary - collocations - Meanings and their types - phrasal verbs - prepositions/ particles - Prefixes, suffixes - word building and blending - words easily confused
Word registers
Read today's the Hindu (Reading newspapers for words)
Read the Scroll.in
Week 10 : Oct 20 - 26
Text: Texts: An Astrologer's Day by R K Narayan
Grammar Topics: Expressing time: Verbs and Tenses: Future Tense and its uses.
Speaking Activities: Knowing your future, asking questions
Week 11: Oct 27 - Oct 31
Tutorial Classes: Technical Writing and Report Writing
Resources: Email Etiquette
Week 12: November 01 - 07
Text: Letter to My Daughter by Jawaharlal Nehru
https://www.theclassroom.com/the-seven-parts-of-a-letter-12084087.html
Text: Pied Beauty by GM Hopkins
Text: Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
End Semester Syllabus
1. Letter to my Daughter (detailed study)
2. An Astrologer's Day (detailed study)
3. Poems: Pied Beauty, Sonnet 116 (non detailed study)
4. report writing
5. Email and letter writing
6. Resume writing
7. Grammar: subject verb agreement, Prepositions, Tenses, phrasal verbs.
Strictly Reference
Grammar:
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar
Grammar and Writing:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html
Collocation: