Baselios Poulose II Catholicose College

Govt. aided minority institution affiliated to
Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
Re-Accredited with 'A' Grade by NAAC

CERTIFICATE COURSE IN COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH

Course Objectives

  • The course is framed to give the students a better grip of the language and to tune their writing and reading comprehension.
  • The content is divided into three segments I Reading skills/Listening comprehension II Speaking skills III Writing skills.

Syllabus

Module Segments Hours
1
  1. Mainly aims at improving the students’ skills to comprehend English Language and to use the language as a spoken medium of communication.
  2. Short passages of 5 to 7 mins duration will be played. The students, after listening to the passage are required to answer multiple choice questions based on the passage. This exercise which continues for 1 hour will be interspliced with exercises from Segment 2
15
2
  1. mainly concentrates on improving the speaking skills of the student. The students will be given lessons in English pronunciation skills (phonemes, syllables, and suprasegmental features like stress, pitch, intonationetc).
  2. Short passages will be played and students will be required to identify sounds.
15
3
  1. The students will be tested on their skills to write in English and to frame sentences, conversation and speech.
  2. The students will be given current topics to write short articles on. The teachers will value these write-ups each hour
15