2. Course Objective
1. To make them realize the importance of career development in
current scenario.
2. To enhance their communicative skills in real life situations.
3. To help learners participate passionately improve their listening and
speaking skills.
3. Course Outcome
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
1. Speak effectively with appropriate competence and performance.
2. Read different genres of texts, infer implied meanings and critically analyse and evaluate them
for ideas as well as for method of presentation.
3. Listen/view and comprehend different spoken excerpts critically and infer unspoken and
implied meanings.
4. Use communication strategies to participate in groups.
5. Participate effectively in work place related activities pertained to technical communication
4. • Unit-I Listening Listening to Conversation and Speeches by Native Speakers - group
discussion and interview skills - Speaking - Describing a simple process - Asking and
answering questions. Unit-II Writing Skills Writing job applications - cover letter -
resume – emails – letters – reports – blogs Unit-III Presentation Skills Presentation
skills - Elements of effective presentation – Structure of presentation - Presentation
tools - General and Technical topics-Honing Body-language-Extempore Unit-IV Group
Discussions Why is GD part of selection process? - Structure of GD – Moderator – led
and other GDs - Strategies in GD – Team work - Body Language - Mock GD -Video
samples Unit-V Interview Skills Preparation – Punctuality – Professionalism –
Communication – Confidence – Showing interest – Follow up Reference Books 8.
Communication Skills. Sanjay Kumar and Pushpalatha, Oxford University Press, 2011
9. Exercises in Spoken English Part – I – III, Hyderabad, Oxford University Press. 10.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/writing-job-applications
6. Listening
Unit-I Listening
Listening to Conversation and Speeches
by Native Speakers –
Group discussion and interview skills -
Speaking - Describing a simple process -
Asking and answering questions.