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Department of BIOTECHNOLOGY, REC

OUTCOMES:
On completion of the course, students will be able to

 Read technical texts and write area- specific texts effortlessly.
 Listen and comprehend lectures and talks in their area of specialisation successfully.
 Speak appropriately and effectively in varied formal and informal contexts.
 Write reports and winning job applications.
 Write error free language.

TEXT BOOKS:
1. Board of editors. Fluency in English A Course book for Engineering and
Technology. Orient Blackswan, Hyderabad: 2016
2. Sudharshana.N.P and Saveetha. C. English for Technical Communication. Cambridge
University Press: New Delhi, 2016.

REFERENCES
1. Raman, Meenakshi and Sharma, Sangeetha- Technical Communication
Principles and Practice.Oxford University Press: New Delhi,2014.
2. Kumar, Suresh. E. Engineering English. Orient Blackswan: Hyderabad,2015
3. Booth-L. Diana, Project Work, Oxford University Press, Oxford: 2014.
4. Grussendorf, Marion, English for Presentations, Oxford University Press, Oxford: 2007
5. Means, L. Thomas and Elaine Langlois, English & Communication For
Colleges. Cengage Learning, USA: 2007.
6. Students can be asked to read Tagore, Chetan Bhagat and for suplementary 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.
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