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Pev 107 Sylabus

This course focuses on developing strong verbal ability skills in English. It contains 6 units that cover topics such as using correct verb tenses, determining main ideas in written text, pronunciation, vocabulary, essay writing, cover letters, and critical reasoning. Students will learn skills like sentence correction, completion, narration, reading comprehension, and paragraph jumbling. The goals are for students to effectively communicate verbally in interviews, analyze written information, and produce clear written work for different audiences and purposes.

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Pev 107 Sylabus

This course focuses on developing strong verbal ability skills in English. It contains 6 units that cover topics such as using correct verb tenses, determining main ideas in written text, pronunciation, vocabulary, essay writing, cover letters, and critical reasoning. Students will learn skills like sentence correction, completion, narration, reading comprehension, and paragraph jumbling. The goals are for students to effectively communicate verbally in interviews, analyze written information, and produce clear written work for different audiences and purposes.

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PEV107:VERBAL ABILITY-II

L:1 T:2 P:0 Credits:3

Course Outcomes: Through this course students should be able to

• use english verb tenses correctly in an interview situation (past, present, future)

• determine the main idea, compare and contrast ideas, draw conclusions, and paraphrase
information from written material

• use content clues and language structures to analyse words for pronunciation and
meaning

• produce clear and coherent informational or explanatory text in which development,


organization and style are appropriate to tasks, purpose and audience.

Unit I
Sentence correction : modifiers, parallelism, pronoun-antecedent error, verb-time
sequence error, comparison error
Sentence completion : types of questions - single and double blanks, eliminating
options using verbal clues
Unit II
Voice and accent : introduction to vowels and consonants, introduction to syllable,
stress and intonation
Unit III
Narration : direct and indirect speech, conversion of one speech to another

Vocabulary enrichment : one- word substitution, mis-spelt words

Unit IV
Essay writing : idea elaboration, writing an introduction, logical sequencing of ideas,
generating points or supporting ideas and examples, concluding the essay
Reading comprehension passages : types of question- inference, main idea,
supporting idea, assumption
Unit V
Cover letter : key elements of cover letter, useful words and phrases for cover
letter, format of cover letter
Para jumbles : types of para jumbles - fixed and moving para jumbles, verbal and
logical clues to solve para jumbles
Unit VI
Critical reasoning : concepts - premise, assumption, conclusion, strengthening
statement, weakening statement, types and patterns of questions, tips and tricks to
understand and solve critical reasoning, indicators to identify basic concepts of critical
reasoning

References:

1. COLLINS COMMON ERRORS IN ENGLISH by COLLINS DICTIONARIES,


HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS

2. OXFORD LIVING GRAMMAR by KEN PATERSON , MARK HARRISON , NORMAN


COE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

3. ESSENTIALS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR by BAUGH, L. SUE, MC GRAW HILL

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