HS3151 Professional English:
HS3151 Professional English – I Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021
OBJECTIVES :
To improve the communicative competence of learners
To learn to use basic grammatic structures in suitable contexts
To acquire lexical competence and use them appropriately in a sentence and understand their meaning in a text
To help learners use language effectively in professional contexts
To develop learners’ ability to read and write complex texts, summaries, articles, blogs, definitions, essays and user manuals.
UNIT 1 INTRODUCTION TO FUNDAMENTALS OF COMMUNICATION
Reading – Reading brochures (technical context), telephone messages / social media messages relevant to technical contexts and emails. Writing – Writing emails / letters introducing oneself. Grammar – Present Tense (simple and progressive); Question types: Why/ Yes or No/ and Tags. Vocabulary – Synonyms; One word substitution; Abbreviations & Acronyms (as used in technical contexts).
UNIT II NARRATION AND SUMMATION
Reading – Reading biographies, travelogues, newspaper reports, Excerpts from literature, and travel & technical blogs. Writing – Guided writing– Paragraph writing Short Report on an event (field trip etc.) Grammar –Past tense (simple); Subject-Verb Agreement; and Prepositions. Vocabulary – Word forms (prefixes& suffixes); Synonyms and Antonyms. Phrasal verbs.
UNIT III DESCRIPTION OF A PROCESS / PRODUCT
Reading – Reading advertisements, gadget reviews; user manuals. Writing – Writing definitions; instructions; and Product /Process description. Grammar – Imperatives; Adjectives; Degrees of comparison; Present & Past Perfect Tenses. Vocabulary – Compound Nouns, Homonyms; and Homophones, discourse markers (connectives & sequence words).
UNIT IV CLASSIFICATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Reading – Newspaper articles; Journal reports –and Non Verbal Communication (tables, pie charts etc,). Writing – Note-making / Note-taking (*Study skills to be taught, not tested); Writing recommendations; Transferring information from non verbal ( chart , graph etc, to verbal mode) Grammar – Articles; Pronouns – Possessive & Relative pronouns. Vocabulary – Collocations; Fixed / Semi fixed expressions.
UNIT V EXPRESSION
Reading – Reading editorials; and Opinion Blogs; Writing – Essay Writing (Descriptive or narrative). Grammar – Future Tenses, Punctuation; Negation (Statements & Questions); and Simple, Compound & Complex Sentences. Vocabulary – Cause & Effect Expressions – Content vs Function words.
LEARNING OUTCOMES :
At the end of the course, learners will be able
To use appropriate words in a professional context
To gain understanding of basic grammatic structures and use them in right context.
To read and infer the denotative and connotative meanings of technical texts
To write definitions, descriptions, narrations and essays on various topics
TEXT BOOKS :
1. English for Engineers & Technologists Orient Blackswan Private Ltd. Department of English, Anna University, (2020 edition)
2. English for Science & Technology Cambridge University Press, 2021. Authored by Dr. Veena Selvam, Dr. Sujatha Priyadarshini, Dr. Deepa Mary Francis, Dr. KN. Shoba, and Dr. Lourdes Joevani, Department of English, Anna University.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. Technical Communication – Principles And Practices By Meenakshi Raman & Sangeeta Sharma, Oxford Univ. Press, 2016, New Delhi.
2. A Course Book On Technical English By Lakshminarayanan, Scitech Publications (India) Pvt. Ltd.
3. English For Technical Communication (With CD) By Aysha Viswamohan, Mcgraw Hill Education, ISBN : 0070264244.
4. Effective Communication Skill, Kulbhusan Kumar, RS Salaria, Khanna Publishing House.
5. Learning to Communicate – Dr. V. Chellammal, Allied Publishing House, New Delhi,2003.