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UNIT II APPRECIATIVE LISTENING AND IMPROMPTU 6
Listening- Listening to motivational speeches, music and poetry. Speaking–pick and talk, short talks
on any event on topics- a trip to remember, a job I‘d love to have, etc. – Vocabulary: Collocation.

UNIT III INFORMATIVE LISTENING AND PERSUASIVE SPEAKING 6
Listening–Listening- to gather information such as facts, directions, news or instructions. Speaking –
Persuasive speaking- convincing the audience with the speaker‘s view on the topics- food additives
and unhealthiest, financial education is important in today‘s world, etc. – Vocabulary: Idioms and
Phrases.

UNIT IVCRITICAL LISTENING AND SPEAKING ON SPECIAL OCCASION 6
Listening– Critical Listening- listening to examine and evaluate the message for logic and truth -
televised debate, election campaign. Speaking –speech to commemorate a person or an event- speech
of Introduction, etc. – Vocabulary: Foreign Words and Phrases.

UNIT V EMPATHETIC LISTENING AND DEMONSTRATIVE SPEAKING 6
Listening– Empathetic Listening – paying attention to another person with empathy – listening to
problems and issues (videos).Speaking – Demonstrative speaking – Demonstrate a process using
visual aids (charts, graphs, maps, pictures, etc.) – Grammar: Different types of Questions.
TOTAL: 30 PERIODS
OUTCOMES:
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
● Identify the different types of listening and speaking for effective interpersonal
communication.
● Discuss and respond to content of a listening passage.
● Comprehend and answer questions based on the texts/passages given.
● Understand different genres of texts and comprehend the materials to improve their
vocabulary and are familiar with new words, phrases, sentence structures and ideas.
● Make inferences and predictions about spoken discourse.

REFERENCES:
1. Meenakshi Raman and Sangeetha Sharma, Technical Communication – Principles and
Practice, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, December, 2011.
2. Henry Lee, Interpersonal Skills: How to develop Interpersonal Skills for work and home,
Kindle Edition
3. Erik Palmer, Teaching the Core Skills of Listening and Speaking , Kindle Edition

SEMESTER IV

MA17353 PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS L T P C
Common to Chemical, Biotech , BME & IT 3 2 0 4
OBJECTIVES
 To provide the required skill to apply the statistical tools in Engineering problems.

UNIT I ONE- DIMENSIONAL RANDOM VARIABLES 15
Discrete and continuous random variables – Moments – Moment generating functions –
Binomial, Poisson, Geometric, Uniform, Exponential and Normal distributions.

UNIT II TWO-DIMENSIONAL - RANDOM VARIABLES 15
Joint distributions – Marginal and conditional distributions – Covariance – Correlation and
Linear regression – Transformation of random variables – Central limit theorem

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