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SYLLABUS

Advanced Communication Skills

Objectives:
 The course aims at improving student's basic grammar, sentence construction and vocabulary.
 Attempt to enhance student's comprehension and writing skills.

 Interest in language and vocabulary improvement sought through mind and word games.
 To teach and develop student's habit of consulting dictionary for usage of words, correct spellings and pronunciation.
 To enhance confidence in public speaking.
S. No. Description
A Speaking skills ---to enhance the basic speaking skills, one needs apt language and the correct
pronunciation.
1. Simple rules of pronunciation and intonation
2. Formal oral presentations--- Power point presentations or presentations using other visual aids followed by
actual practice of it.
3. INTERVIEW SKILLS—[ types of interviews , employer’s expectations, types of questions, some standard
questions , answering techniques, mock interviews ]
4. Working with Customers--- essential speaking elements needed to communicate with the customers—[apt
questions to determine the context, apt responses to put them at ease, apt responses to acknowledge their
efforts, using listener cantered language, asking questions to understand their problems , establish rapport ,
denying requests, coping with angry customers.
5. Improving informal communication—speaking persuasively, negotiating effectively, managing conflicts
6. Formal and regularly used expressions in given situations
7. Group discussions---- a detailed briefing of do's and don’ts followed by GD's based on topics relevant to
their field. Kinds of GD’s—to convey information or to instruct or solve problems or to take decisions
B Reading skills—skills we need to read successfully
8. reading strategies / techniques / types – equipped with separate and adequate reading passages to practice
the skill
9. comprehension of written texts ---selecting information, identifying topic –shift, cause –effect, point of
view [ the texts are articles / editorials etc., from varied streams of subjects]
10. Aesthetic reading skill- poem-- “Raisin In the Sun” – Langston Hughes
--“ways to kill a Man”—Edwin Brock
C Writing skills – to reinforce the grammatical structures
12. GRAMMAR – SUBJECT – VERB agreement
13. Basic sentence patterns
14. Conditional sentences
15. Subordinating Conjunctions
16. correlative conjunctions
17. one word substitutes
D Writing skills to enhance formally structured effective official writing
18. understanding Reports and Proposals
19.Types of reports
20. structure and layout of a Formal report—writing the beginning / the body / end matter
21. Business reports
22. Writing short Reports
23. Proposal writing And Process Description
24. Technical proposals
25. Writing Proposals
26. Supplementary Parts / Appended Parts
27. Citing sources