Unit-I
Unit-II
- Basic rules of English grammar
- Parts of speech: Their function and use in all the four skills
- Tenses: How they are made and used.
Unit-III
- Conditional Sentences: How they are made; their variety and usage.
- The use of prepositions.
- Direct-Indirect Narration: How the different sentences-assertive, interrogative, optative and exclamatory-are changed into indirect and vice versa.
Unit-IV
- Use of Articles.
- Subject-verb agreement rules.
- Note: Teaching of the above grammatical rules should be followed by exercises on each of these items to test whether the students have a clear concept or not.
Unit-V
Unit-VI
As a first step in this direction, the student should be taught how a paragraph is developed. How a topic sentence is made. How the sequence of thought should be maintained. How the arguments should be marshaled in a logical and convincing manner.
Unit-VII
- Sequencing; Comparison and contrast.
Unit-VIII
- Cause-effect relations.
- Cohesive devices.