PEL136: ADVANCED COMMUNICATION SKILLS-II
L-1 T-0 P-3 Credits: 3
Course Outcomes: Through this course students should be able to
CO1 :: recall and apply appropriate vocabulary, intonation patterns, and styles of connected
discourse in individual and group tasks related to listening, reading, speaking, and writing tasks.
CO2 :: understand the unique qualities of professional writing style and apply effective listening and
reading strategies to enhance comprehension.
C03 :: analyze and identify grammatical errors or inconsistencies in written and spoken texts to
be utilized in personal and professional contexts.
CO4 :: evaluate individual speaking and listening performance to identify areas for improvement in
pronunciation, fluency, perception, and interpretation.
CO5 :: produce well-structured spoken and reading responses that demonstrate comprehension,
synthesis, and application of language skills for lifelong learning.
CO6 :: compose different types of written compositions using appropriate grammar, vocabulary, and style.
Language Skills
Listening: multiple choice questions, subjective questions, taking detailed notes on the given information,
giving opinions, filling in the blanks, matching the statements, correcting the order, completing the chart
Speaking: role plays, group activities, pair activities, individual presentations, storytelling, problem-solving
discussions, simulations, group discussions, debates, techniques to generate points in a group discussion
(SPELT-social, political, economic, legal, and technological, PROS/CONS)
Reading: subjective questions, matching statements with authors, word meaning, multiple choice
questions, answering true, false, and not given questions, matching paragraphs with summary, fill in the
blanks, finding a title, matching the word with the correct definition, fact or opinion-based questions
Writing: paragraph writing, message writing, story writing, critical review writing, website post writing,
taking notes, writing a biography, essay writing, personal statement writing, CV writing and Portfolio
making, designing a personalized CV aligned with KYC and JD
Associated Language Skills
Grammar: simple and continuous tenses, perfect and non-perfect tenses, adverb collocations and
adjectives, verb patterns and infinitives and/or -ing, modal auxiliary verbs, missing words out, reduced
infinitives, emphatic structures, verb + preposition combinations, mixed conditionals, relatives and
participles, discourse markers, connectors, passive construction and reporting, future forms, linking words.
Vocabulary: synonyms and antonyms, phrasal verbs, describing trends, idiomatic collocations, vocabulary
in context, homonyms, homophones, homographs, verb phrases, compound nouns, metaphorical language.
Practical: listening to a conversation about a school reunion, biography, a radio discussion about
economic growth, listening based on witnessing a crime, a real-life story, listening to a radio documentary
about the role and social evolution of the smile, gender roles, facts about the human body and health,
reading article, extract, the profile of Chuck Feeney, reading about lasting legacies, job descriptions,
reading an article about exploring the ‘ function inflation of modern appliances’, life-changing experiences,
writing about introducing yourself, narrative writing, report writing, formal e-mail writing, informal letter
writing, writing an online product review, writing a biography, speaking about stereotypes, word stress,
syllable and intonation, sounds, describing trends, telling a horror story, presenting a news bulletin.
Text Books:
1. 5th EDITION HEADWAY ADVANCED STUDENT’S BOOK by LIZ & JOHN SOARS, PAUL HANCOCK (OXFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS)
References:
1. ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN USE by RAYMOND MURPHY, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
