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SYLLABUS

 Unit - 1 :

Sharing Information Related to Oneself/Family and Friends Reading – Short Comprehension Passages, Practice in Skimming-scanning and Predicting – Writing-completing Sentences – Developing Hints. Listening – Short Texts – Short Formal and Informal Conversations. Speaking – Introducing Oneself – Exchanging Personal Information – Language Development – Wh-Questions – Asking and Answering – Yes or Not Questions – Parts of Speech. Vocabulary Development – Prefixes – Suffixes – Articles – Count/Uncount Nouns.

Unit - 2 :

General Reading and Free Writing Reading – Comprehension – Pre-reading – Post-reading – Comprehension Questions (Multiple Choice Questions and/or Short Questions/Open-ended Questions) – Inductive Reading – Short Narratives and Descriptions from Newspapers Including Dialogues and Conversations (also used as short listening texts) – Register – Writing – Paragraph Writing – Topic Sentence – Main Ideas – Free Writing, Short Narrative Descriptions Using Some Suggested Vocabulary and Structures – Listening – Telephonic Conversations. Speaking – Sharing Information of a Personal Kind-Greeting-Taking Leave – Language Development – Prepositions, Conjunctions Vocabulary Development – Guessing Meanings of Words in Context.

Unit - 3 :

Grammar and Language Development Reading – Short Texts and Longer Passages (Close Reading). Writing – Understanding Text Structure Use of Reference Words and Discourse Markers – Coherence – Jumbled Sentences. Listening – Listening to Longer Texts and Filling up the Table – Product Description – Narratives from Different Sources. Speaking – Asking About Routine Actions and Expressing Opinions. Language Development – Degrees of Comparison – Pronouns – Direct vs indirect Questions – Vocabulary Development – Single Work Substitutes – Adverbs.

Unit - 4 :

Reading and Language Development Reading – Comprehension-Reading Longer Texts – Reading Different Types of Texts – Magazines. Writing – Letter Writing, Informal or Personal Letters-e-mails-conventions of Personal Email. Listening – Listening to Dialogues or Conversations and Completing Exercises Based on Them. Speaking – Speaking about Oneself – Speaking about One’s Friend – Language Development – Tenses – Simple Present – Simple Past – Present Continuous and Past Continuous – Vocabulary Development – Synonyms – Antonyms – Phrasal Verbs.

Unit - 5 :

Extended Writing Reading – Longer Texts – Close Reading – Writing – Brainstorming – Writing Short Essays – Developing an Outline – Identifying Main and Subordinate Ideas – Dialogue Writing – Listening – Listening to Talks. Conversations – Speaking – Participating in Conversations – Short Group Conversations – Language Development – Model Verbs – Present/Past Perfect Tense – Vocabulary Development – Collocations. Fixed and Semi-fixed Expressions