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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

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7. Lynch, Tony. Study Listening. New Delhi. CUP, 2008.
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9. McCarter, Sam, Norman Whitby. Writing Skills. Macmillan India, 2009.
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