PEL 130
Advanced
Communication Skills-I
Zero Lecture
Objectives
Robust Grammatical Foundation
Fostering Confidence based on
upgraded knowledge
Empowering Communication Skills
Effective comprehension of social and
professional world by accentuating
language skills
L-T-P and Credit details
L (Lecture)-1
T (Tutorial)-0
P (Practical)-3
Credits: 03
Course Outcomes
CO1:: recall the subtleties of CO2:: understand and apply CO3:: employ precise
tenses in different time frames lexical components for and unambiguous
to improve communication in effective and proficient syntax to
both academic and spoken language exchange communicate
professional contexts efficiently
Course Outcomes
CO4:: analyse advanced CO5:: assess the techniques CO6:: assemble the
elements in correct
grammatical concepts in of using grammatical
manner and
written and spoken English structures, connectors and sequence for making
transition words in spoken and delivering
opinions, inferences,
and written discourse
facts and details in
an impactful manner
Programme Outcomes as
specific to the course: PO10
Ø Communicate effectively on complex engineering
activities with the engineering community
Ø and with society at large, such as, being able to
comprehend and write effective reports
Ø and design documentation, make effective
presentations, and give and receive clear
instructions.
Course Content
1 Tenses and Conditionals
2 Modals, Infinitives and Gerunds
3 Parts of speech
4 Sentences, Clauses, Connectors
Articles, Determiners, Quantifiers
5 and Reporting speech
6 Idiomatic expressions:
Course Content:
Unit 1 details
Tenses and Conditionals:
verbs, auxiliary verbs and tenses, present and
present perfect, past and past perfect, present
perfect or past simple, past perfect or past simple;
conditionals: real, unreal, mixed, order and
punctuation
in conditionals
Course Content:
Unit 2 details
Modals, Infinitives and Gerunds:
modals and phrasal modals, complex modals,
prediction, willingness, habits, preferences,
deduction, simple infinitives and gerunds, complex
infinitives and gerunds, verbs with infinitives and
gerunds
Course Content:
Unit 3 details
Parts of speech:
pronouns: reflexive and reciprocal pronoun, empty subject it and there,
substitution: one and ones;
adjective: emphasizing, describing, classifying, position and punctuation,
participle adjectives, compound adjectives, adjectives as nouns;
adverbs: position of adverbs;
preposition: prepositions and prepositional phrases, preposition of time, place,
movement, connections and exceptions
Course Content:
Unit 4 details
Sentences, Clauses, Connectors:
sentence: subject and verbs, verbs and objects, verbs with indirect objects and
clauses, linking verbs, compound and complex sentences;
clauses: defining and non-defining clauses, reduced
relative clauses, adverbial clauses and conjunctions, reduced adverbial clauses;
connectors: types of connectors and focus structures, connectors, prepositions and
conjunctions, adding and contrasting connectors, result and time
connectors, listing connectors
Course Content:
Unit 5 details
Articles, Determiners, Quantifiers and Reporting
speech:
types of articles and nouns, articles and nouns in
discourse, determiners, quantifiers, multipliers,
fractions and percentages, reporting verbs, reporting
statements and questions, and reporting order,
requests, advice and opinion
Course Content:
Unit 6 details
Idiomatic expressions:
phrasal verbs, idioms,
collocations, and formulaic
expressions
Course Content:
Unit 7 details
List of Practicals:
Practice worksheets on grammar topics:
Ø tenses and conditionals
Ø modals, infinitives and gerunds
Ø parts of speech
Ø clauses, sentences, connectors
Ø articles, determiners, quantifiers and reporting speech
Ø idiomatic expressions
Course Content:
Unit 7 details
Speaking skills:
Ø individual presentation
Ø group presentation
Ø discussion
Ø just a minute session
Writing skills:
Ø paragraph writing
Ø critical writing
Implementation Strategies
Create and Invent:
Students will be asked to build a verbal presentation on
pros, cons and future implications of ChatGPT/ Google
Bard/ Microsoft Bing/ Chatsonic/ GitHub and
demonstrate the same.
Select from Alternatives:
Introduce a variety of companies as a possible
recruiters like Google/ Microsoft/ Accenture/ Infosys/
CapGemini. Form groups in the class, on the basis of the
choice made, and ask them to select the best
alternative. Each group will then explain its chosen
alternative to the rest of the class with reasonable
justification of its preference. During the process, the
rest of the class can participate by asking questions
from the group.
Implementation Strategies
Master He is!:
Students will be provided with a digital quiz in
form of multiple situation-based conversation to
evaluate whether the language has been used
correctly or not.
What's wrong?:
Students will be asked to use ‘Learn English
Grammar- British Council’ either Advanced Pack 1
or Advanced Pack 2 and then give a verbal
presentation on what’s wrong with the app and
suggest ways to improve it for the users.
Implementation Strategies
Big Paper – Silent Conversation:
Present students with a list of vocabulary and an image
for a brand and product combination like Apple+ I-
watch/ Lenovo + laptop/ Samsung+ Smart-phone/
Boat+ ear-pods. Then students need to write a
description using the words given and the image.
Critique Hatter:
Divide the class into multiple groups and provide a
corporate brand (Adobe/ Amazon/ Oracle/ Intel/ Dell/
Stemware/ Atlassian). Then ask them to create a page of
instructions for others and a page with the logo of the brand.
Then, after 15 minutes, both the sheets will be taken back
and the sheet with instructions will be inter-changed to
give the next task to the team i.e. after reading the
instructions from the other team, the current team will
generate a logo. Then comparison will take place and both
the teams will send a representative to defend their logo.
Implementation Strategies
Conversation Stations:
Students will be divided into groups and a domain
specific article will be provided. Then the team will be
asked to create questions using modals, articles,
determiners, quantifiers and speech.
Agree or Disagree?:
Students will be provided with a questionnaire with usage
of tricky rules of the language. They will pick 'agree' or
'disagree' just to highlight if they understand the correct
meaning generated or not.
Implementation Strategies
Rule the Game World:
Students will be asked to give a verbal presentation on
‘I would like to create a game like……’ using a given set
of words like ‘bots, bullet sponge, clans, buff, ganking,
hitscan, noob, ping, and sandbox’.
Crack the Jack:
Students will be presented to a one to one Interview set-up
where a few questions will be asked (replica of the
questions from placement set-ups) and feedback will be
provided.
COHORTS Teaching these skills
Data Analyst, Machine equip students with
Learning Engineer, Data the tools they need to
Scientists,CyberSecurity
succeed academically,
Manager/Analyst/ Architect,
Software Testing professionally, and
Assistant/Content socially. It empowers
Writer/Freelancer, them to express
QAEngineer, themselves effectively,
Frontend/BackendEngineer.
build strong
Fullstack Engineer,
MLEngineer, DevOps relationships, and
Engineer, Production and navigate the
Manufacturing complexities of the
Engineer,GraphicDesigner, world around them.
Process Analyst
Continuous Assessment Criteria
Nature of Academic Allotment/
Academic Task Objective Detail of Academic Task Academic Task Task Marks submission
(group/individuals) Mode Week
To appraise Individual speaking task
Presentation-
students’ speaking based on the topics from Individual Offline 30 3/4
Individual 1
ability core
To evaluate
30 MCQs based on
Test 1 students’ abilityto Individual Offline 30 5/6
grammar
solve MCQs
To ensure
Paragraph writing task
enhancement of
Test 2 based on the topics from Individual Offline 30 10/11
students’ writing
core
skills
To mirrorize
students’ advanced Power point
Presentation-
grammaticalknowle Presentation based on Individual Offline 30 12/13
Individual 2
dge in his verbal the topics from core
presentation
Evaluation Parameters
Writing Parameters
Speaking Rubrics
Task Coherence &
Achievement Cohesion
Vocabulary
Grammatical Phonological
range and
Accuracy Control
Control
Grammatical
Lexical
Range &
Resource
Accuracy
Coherence & Thematic
Fluency development
Test/Examination
IELTS (International English Language Testing System)
Achieve 8 Bands or above
All AT’s exempted
Complete Evaluation
Criteria
MTE
• Multiple Choice Questions
• from Unit-1, 2 and 3
ETT
• Multiple Choice Questions from Unit-1 to 6
• Subjective Questions
• Platform: Cocubes
Total=100
Class
ETT:40
Participation:15
CA (Best 3 out
MTE:15
of 4 tasks):30
Content Resources:
Relevant Books
Text Book Reference Book Reference Book
ADVANCED OXFORD ENGLISH PRACTICAL
OXFORD PRACTICE GRAMMAR COURSE ENGLISH USAGE
GRAMMAR BY (ADVANCED) BY BY MICHAEL
GEORGE YULE, SWAN AND WALTER, SWAN, OXFORD
OXFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY PRESS
Content Resources:
Relevant Websites
Tenses and • https://www.englishtenses.com/grammar Extensive study of various
grammatical topics
Conditionals • https://www.englishtestsonline.com/english-grammar-tests/
Modals, Infinitives • https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/english-grammar-
reference/modal-verbs
and Gerunds • https://www.fluentu.com/blog/english/gerunds-and-infinitives/
• https://www.english-grammar-revolution.com/parts-of-speech.html
Parts of speech • https://www.grammar-monster.com/index.html
Content Resources:
Relevant Websites
• https://www.ereadingworksheets.com/languageartsworksheets/sentence-
Sentences, Clauses and structure/sentence-structure-worksheets/clauses-worksheets/#clauses-and-phrases-
worksheets-and-activities
Connectors • https://www.eslactivity.org/subject-verb-agreement-games/
Articles, Determiners, • https://byjus.com/english/determiners-exercises/
Quantifiers and Reporting • https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/reported-speech/reported-speech-
index.htm
speech
• https://www.thoughtco.com/idiomatic-phrasal-verb-meanings-advanced-esl-4074659l
Idiomatic expressions • https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/collocation-advanced-levels-2-classroom-activities
Skill Attainment
Ø Ensured effective academic, professional, and social
presence
Ø Upgraded presentation skills
Ø Enhanced grammatical and communicative competence
Ø Efficacious written and verbal communication
Ø Enriched personality
Ø Upskilled vocabulary
Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy
Self-Reflective Learners
Effective
Critical Thinkers
Listeners
Adaptive
Collaborators Presenters
Communicators
Thank You
All the Best!
