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BLOCK 2: Receptive or Passive Skills

UNIT 1 Learning to Listen – Listening Etiquettes – Problems Affecting Effective
Listening – Developing Listening Skills
UNIT 2 Listening to the Media – Enhancement of Listening Through the Internet: TED
Talks – Music with Lyrics on YouTube
UNIT 3 Ready to Read – Enhancing Vocabulary – Scanning and Skimming
UNIT 4 Print and Online Reading – Online Resources for Literary Reading

BLOCK 3: Productive or Active Skills

UNIT 1 Speaking it Out – Speaking to the Mirror – Understanding Your Audience –
Overcoming Inhibitions
UNIT 2 Audio Chats to Enhance Speaking – The Practice of Self-Recording – Online
Pronunciation Aids
UNIT 3 The Written Word – The Writing Process - Writing Plan-Drafts and Revisions
– The Well Written Sentence – Diction – Meaning, Clarity and Simplicity –
Figurative Language – Collocations – Punctuations
UNIT 4 Conventions of Social Media Writing – Linguistic Checks – Online Tools to
Help

BLOCK 4: Communication and Technology

UNIT 1 Origins of Technology in Language – The Evolution of Writing – Print and
Publication – Technology in Language – Systems of Sound and Motion
Recording
UNIT 2 Evolution of Electronic and Digital Technology – Language and the
Cyberspace – Language and ICT – Technical Terms Commonly Used in ICT
– The Internet: Aspects of Efficiency and Economy
UNIT 3 Authenticity of New Media – Misuse and Abuse in Cyber Space
UNIT 4 Contributing to Social Media – Appropriate and Upright Conduct on Social
Media Platforms

References

Bailey, Stephen. Academic Writing. Routledge, 2006.

Coe, Norman, Robin Rycroft and Pauline Ernest. Writing Skills: A Problem-solving
Approach. Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Ferguson. Public Speaking: Building Competency Stages. Oxford Publishing, 2007.

Hamp-Lyons, Liz, Ben Heasley. Study Writing. 2nd Edition. Cambridge UP, 2008.

Kenneth, Anderson, Tony Lynch, Joan Mac Lean. Study Speaking. New Delhi: CUP, 2008.

Langan, J. English Skills with Reading (3rd Ed.). McGraw Hill. New York. 1995.

Lynch, Tony. Study Listening. New Delhi. CUP, 2008.

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