TECHNICAL ENGLISH SYLLABUS -ANNA UNIVERSITY MADURAI

TECHNICAL ENGLISH – I SYLLABUS(10ATE01)

ANNA UNIVERSITY MADURAI

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AIM:

To encourage students to actively involve in participative learning of English and to help them acquire Communication Skills.

OBJECTIVES:

1. To help students develop listening skills for academic and professional purposes.

2. To help students acquire the ability to speak effectively in English in real life situations.

3. To inculcate reading habit and to develop effective reading skills.

4. To help students improve their active and passive vocabulary.

5. To familiarize students with different rhetorical functions of scientific English.

6. To enable students write letters and reports effectively in formal and business situations.

UNIT I LANGUAGE FOCUS

General and Technical Vocabulary - changing from one form to another – Nouns –Compound nouns – Adjectives - Comparative adjectives – Adverbs – Prefix Suffix –

Tenses (simple present – present continuous) – British and American Vocabulary

UNIT II LANGUAGE FOCUS

Subject – Verb agreement – Past / Past Perfect / Past continuous – Future Tense – Perfect

Tenses – Active passive – Impersonal passive – Active-Passive voice - Gerund and

infinitives, cause and effect, purpose and function – ‘If’ conditionals – Error correction –

Linking devices (comparison, contrast, additive and sequential relation)

UNIT III READING

Skimming – Scanning for specific information – Inference – Context based meaning –

Statistical interpretation – Graphic forms bar charts / flow charts – Tabular Column

UNIT IV WRITING

Paragraph – Description – Instruction – Scientific writing – Formal letter writing – Letter

to the editor – Accepting and Declining invitation – Permission letter – Note making

UNIT V SPEAKING AND LISTENING (Not for Examination)

1. Listening and Understanding British and American accent

2. Listening to news – Understand and Present(Problems)

Critical analysis – Implications

3. Speaking

a) Self Introduction

b) Presenting arguments

c) Commenting on any issue

d) Persuasive speaking

e) Presenting a common problem and suggesting a solution

f) Presenting a particular problem to the higher officials and suggesting

suitable solutions

g) asking for solution

h) asking for clarification

TEXT BOOKS:

1. “English for Engineers and Technologists”(Vol I & II combined edition), Dept.of Humanities and Social Sciences Anna University, Chennai, Orient Longmans Reprintt.2008.

2. “Perform In English”, Dr. M. Balasubramanian & Dr. G. Anbalagan: Anuradha Pub, Kumbakonam Rev Ed: 2008, Reprint.2010.

REFERENCES:

1. “A Course in Communication Skills”, P. Kiranmai Dutt and others:, 2007 Edition Foundation books: Cambridge House, 4381/4 Ansari Road, Daryanganj, New Delhi – 2.

2. “Effective Technical Communication”, M. Ashraf Rizvi:, Tata Mcgraw Hill, Rep: 2007.4


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