Spoken English Cource Details

The Institute teaches Spoken English at four levels - Basic, Junior, Senior and Advanced.

The Spoken English course is designed to help the students in learning English language giving more
emphasis to speaking skills. New students are placed in the Basic or Junior levels based on their
performance in the classification test at the time of admission. Emphasis is placed on the development
of the Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing skills along with a knowledge of grammar. Enthusiastic
participation in classroom activities is an indispensable part of the learning process. The textbook
supplied by the Institute is designed for that purpose. 40% of the final evaluation is based on the
student's performance in the classroom activities.

Basic level syllabus

The Basic level is for those students who are very poor in English. The objective of this level is to
gradually develop their LSRW skills through the communicative approach of teaching and learning. The
textbook, which contains a large number of passages and dialogues, is especially designed to develop
the learner's confidence and speaking ability through interactive lessons on: Introductions, activity
based grammar practice of Simple Tenses, descriptions of people, places, things, processes, and day-to-
day conversations. On completion of the Basic level students will be able to participate in conversations
and understand instructions which will enable them to join the Junior level of the course.

Junior level syllabus

Speeches, Group discussion, Story telling, Description, and Conversation practice for certain situations.
Reading of passages from the textbook, Letter writing and Punctuation. Parts of speech, Nouns,
Pronouns, Verbs, Tenses, Prepositions, Adjectives, Articles, Construction of sentences, Types of
sentences, Types of questions, Framing questions, Common mistakes in English.

Senior level syllabus

Debates, Role play, Group discussions, Arguments, Story telling, Picture description. Tenses (revision),
Transitive, Intransitive verbs, Active/Passive voice, Direct/Indirect Speech, Degrees of comparison,
Transformation of sentences, Common mistakes in English. Practice of phonetic transcription - Vowel
and Consonant symbols.

Advanced level syllabus

Conversation Practice, Debates, Creative stories, One-act plays, Art of Public Speaking. Reading from the
contemporary Novels, Plays and Newspaper. Paragraph writing, Essay writing, Dialogue writing, Critical
writing, Creative writing, Story writing, Stylistic problems that appear in grammar. Prepositional phrase,
Structure of a sentence, Syntax, Conjunctions, Simple, Compound, Complex Sentence, synthesis and
Analysis of sentences, functions of Adverbs and Adjectives, Non-finite Verbs - Idioms, Phrasal Verbs,
Word formation - Stress, Intonation, Transcription of words.