HS8151 TECHNICAL ENGLISH I
OBJECTIVES
- To enable all students of engineering and technology develop their basic communication skills in English.
- To give special emphasis to the development of speaking skills amongst the students of engineering and technology students.
- To ensure that students use the electronic media such as interne and supplement the learning materials used in the classroom.
- To inculcate the habit of reading for pleasure.
UNIT I
Listening - Introducing learners to GIE - Types of listening - Listening to audio (verbal &
sounds); Speaking - Speaking about one‟s place, important festivals etc. – Introducing oneself,
one‟s family / friend; Reading - Skimming a reading passage – Scanning for specific information
- Note-making; Writing - Free writing on any given topic (My favourite place / Hobbies / School
life, etc.) - Sentence completion - Autobiographical writing (writing about one‟s leisure time
activities, hometown, etc.); Grammar - Prepositions - Reference words - Wh-questions -
Tenses (Simple); Vocabulary - Word formation - Word expansion (root words / etymology); E materials - Interactive exercises for Grammar & Vocabulary - Reading comprehension
exercises - Listening to audio files and answering questions.
UNIT II
Listening - Listening and responding to video lectures / talks; Speaking - Describing a simple
process (filling a form, etc.) - Asking & answering questions - Telephone skills – Telephone
etiquette; Reading – Critical reading - Finding key information in a given text - Sifting facts
from opinions; Writing - Biographical writing (place, people) - Lab descriptions (general/specific
description of laboratory experiments) - Definitions - Recommendations; Grammar - Use of
imperatives - Subject-verb agreement; Vocabulary - Compound words - Word Association; E materials - Interactive exercises for Grammar and Vocabulary - Listening exercises with
sample telephone conversations / lectures – Picture-based activities.
UNIT III
Listening - Listening to specific task - focused audio tracks; Speaking - Role-play – Simulation
- Group interaction - Speaking in formal situations (teachers, officials, foreigners); Reading -
Reading and interpreting visual material; Writing - Jumbled sentences - Coherence and
cohesion in writing - Channel conversion (flowchart into process) - Types of paragraph (cause
& effect / compare & contrast / narrative / analytical) - Informal writing (letter/e-mail/blogs) -
Paraphrasing; Grammar - Tenses (Past) - Use of sequence words - Adjectives; Vocabulary -
Different forms and uses of words, Cause and effect words; E-materials - Interactive exercises
for Grammar and Vocabulary - Excerpts from films related to the theme and follow up exercises
- Pictures of flow charts and tables for interpretations.
UNIT IV
Listening - Watching videos / documentaries and responding to questions based on them;
Speaking - Responding to questions - Different forms of interviews - Speaking at different
types of interviews; Reading - Making inference from the reading passage - Predicting the
content of a reading passage; Writing - Interpreting visual materials (line graphs, pie charts
etc.) - Essay writing – Different types of essays; Grammar - Adverbs – Tenses – future time
reference; Vocabulary - Single word substitutes - Use of abbreviations & acronyms; E materials - Interactive exercises for Grammar and Vocabulary - Sample interviews - film
UNIT V
Listening - Listening to different accents, Listening to Speeches / Presentations, Listening to
broadcast & telecast from Radio & TV; Speaking - Giving impromptu talks, Making
presentations on given topics; Reading - Email communication - Reading the attachment files
having a poem/joke/proverb - Sending their responses through email Writing - Creative writing,
Poster making; Grammar - Direct and indirect speech; Vocabulary - Lexical items (fixed / semi
fixed expressions); E-materials - Interactive exercises for Grammar & Vocabulary - Sending
emails with attachment – Audio / video excerpts of different accents, - Interpreting posters
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Mindscapes: English for Technologists and Engineers, Department of English, Anna
University, Chennai, 2012 .
2. S.P.Dhanavel, English and Communication skills for students of science and Engineering,
Orient Black Swan, Chennai, 2011.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Pickett, Nell Ann, Ann A.Laster and Katherine E.Staples. Technical English: Writing,
Reading and Speaking. New York: Longman, 2001.
2. Bailey, Stephen. Academic Writing: A practical guide for students. New York: Rutledge,
2011.
3. Morgan, David and Nicholas Regan. Take-Off: Technical English for Engineering.
Reading: Garnet Publishing Limited, 2008.
4. Thorn, Michael and Alan Badrick. An Introduction to Technical English. Harlow:
Prentice Hall Europe, 1993.
5. Rizvi, M.Ashraf. Effective Technical Communication. New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill
PublishingCompany, 2007.
EXTENSIVE READERS
1. Murthy, Sudha. Wise & Otherwise. New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2006.
2. Gates, Bill and Collins Hemingway. Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in
the Digital Economy. New York: Warner Business Books, 2000.
WEBSITE RESOURCES
1. www.uefap.com
2. www.eslcafe.com
3. www.listen-to-english.com
4. www.owl.english.purdue.edu
5. www.chompchomp.com
Check The Section:
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