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Department of BME, REC

5. Means, L. Thomas and Elaine Langlois, English & Communication For Colleges.
Cengage Learning, USA: 2007
Students can be asked to read Tagore, Chetan Bhagat and for supplementary reading.

HS17252 PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH COMMUNICATION L T P C
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OBJECTIVES
• To prepare students to be competent in a global business environment.
• To think accurately, clearly and deeply in communicative contexts.
• To improve career opportunities – get English language skills that are needed to be
successful.

UNIT I CRITICAL/ INFORMATIONAL LISTENING 9
Short conversations or Monologues – Listening for specific information- Conversations or
Monologues with factual information- listen to fill up missing information- business related
discussions or interview (two or more speakers).

UNIT II CONVERSATIONAL/ PRESENTATION SKILLS 9
Speak about oneself - Face-to-face speaking for real-life context – pick and talk - personal opinion
on business related topics- mini presentations on a business theme- discussion with another
candidate on business related topics.

UNIT III INTENSIVE/ EXTENSIVE READING AND INTERPRETING 9
Short texts (signs, messages, emails, labels and notes) -Short descriptions-graph or chart.
Reading to find factual information- decision making from a written text- a leaflet or a newspaper-
magazine or article- reading to understand correct grammar, contextually- reading to understand
the structure of a text-read and transfer information from memos, advertisements, notices.

UNIT IV FORMAL COMMUNICATION 9
Business Correspondence - writing business letters to people outside the company. Internal
Company Communication- a note, a message, a memo or an email.

UNIT V VERBAL ABILITY/ FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR 9
Grammar – tenses – concord- prepositions – articles- punctuations. Vocabulary – advanced
vocabulary – synonyms and antonyms. Sentence correction – sentence completion - cloze
passage - verbal reasoning: analogies, meaning - usage match.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
OUTCOMES:
On completion of the course students will be able to
• Listen to, understand and give opinions in meetings.
• Apply for new jobs and develop their career.
• Write short business messages and reports.
• Use language in both official and unofficial contexts.
• Speak effectively in business communication

TEXT BOOK:
1. Board of Editors. Sure Outcomes. A Communication Skills Course for Undergraduate
Engineers and Technologists. Orient Black Swan Limited, Hyderabad, 2013.

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