English and Communication Skills

Course Content Unit 1 Number of lectures: 8 Weightage: 33% Lesson 1: "An Astrologer’s Day" by R.K. Narayan Lesson 6: "Education: India and America" by Anurag Mathur Poem 11: "Where the Mind is Without Fear" by Rabindranath Tagore Poem 12: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost Poem 13: "Sonnet 29" by William Shakespeare Unit 2 Number of lectures: 4 Weightage: 17% Text-Based Vocabulary Enhancing English Reading Skills ·          Importance of Reading Skill ·          Structure of Paragraph ·          Skimming and Scanning ·          Reasons for Poor Reading Skills Unit 3 Number of lectures: 8 Weightage: 33% Translation from English to Gujarati / Hindi Unit 4 Number of lectures: 4 Weightage: 17% Capitalization and...

B.Sc. SEM 5 BASIC ENGLISH UNIT 2 Enhancing English Reading Skills ·        Reading- A communicative process. Francis Bacon says, ‘ Reading makes a man complete. ’ Reading is an important communicative process and it is the most important language skills required for academic and professional purposes. Quick, efficient and imaginative reading techniques are essential in order to achieve academic success, because academic performance depends on the quality and quantity of reading. Reading is a complex communicative process of receiving and interpreting the written word. It involves recognizing what is written and comprehending the matter that is, understanding the main and subsidiary points as well as links between different parts of written material. While receiving and interpreting the written word, the reader is concerned with four factors that is Decoding, Comprehending, Text analysis, and Response. ·       ...