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UNIT 3 Listening: Types of Listening – Types of Listening Tasks Asked in
Competitive Examinations
Speaking: Subskills of Speaking – Types of Speaking Tasks Asked in
Competitive Examinations
Reading: Types of Reading – Types of Reading Tasks Asked in Competitive
Examinations
Writing: Types of Writing – Types of Writing Tasks Asked in Competitive
Examinations

UNIT 4 Integrated Language Skills – How They Can Be Used in Competitive
Examinations – Conversations – Comprehension Passages – Letters – Précis –
Jumbled Paragraphs/ Sentences – Error Spotting in Sentences/ Paragraphs/
Passages
BLOCK 2: Grammar and Vocabulary

UNIT 1 Grammar – Parts of Speech: Nouns – Pronouns – Adjectives – Verbs – Adverbs
– Conjunctions – Prepositions – Interjections – Articles – Common Errors to
Be Avoided– Tenses: Present Tense and its Subdivisions – Past Tense and its
Subdivisions – Future Tense and its Subdivisions – Degrees of Comparison –
Concord – Direct and Indirect Speech – Question Tag – Clauses

UNIT 2 Homophones/Homonyms/Homographs/Antonyms/Synonyms –Affixes – Idioms
and Phrases – One Word Substitution – Wrong Usages to be Avoided –
Singular/Plural – Compound Words – Word Relations – Easily Confused Words
–Commonly Used Foreign Words and Expressions – Abbreviations – Acronyms

UNIT 3 Verbal Reasoning –Verbal Puzzles – Verbal Coding Exercises – Jumbled
Words (Spelling)

References

Aggarwal, R. S. and S. Chand. A Modern Approach to Verbal Reasoning. New Delhi: S.
Chand, 2017.
Cullen, Pauline. The Official Cambridge Guide to IELTS. Cambridge: CUP. 2014.
Dreyer, Benjamin. Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style. London:
Penguin, 2020.
Rogers, Bruce. The Complete Guide to the TOEFL Test. iBT Edition. Massachusetts:
Thomson, 2007. Print.

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