UNIT I MAKING COMPARISONS

Reading - Reading advertisements, user manuals, brochures; Writing – Professional emails, Email etiquette - Compare and Contrast Essay; Grammar – Mixed Tenses, Prepositional phrases

UNIT II EXPRESSING CAUSAL RELATIONS IN SPEAKING AND WRITING

Reading - Reading longer technical texts – Cause and Effect Essays, and Letters / emails of complaint,Writing - Writing responses to complaints. Grammar - Active Passive Voice transformations, Infinitive and Gerunds

UNIT III PROBLEM SOLVING

Reading - Case Studies, excerpts from literary texts, news reports etc. Writing – Letter to the Editor,Checklists, Problem solution essay / Argumentative Essay. Grammar – Error correction; If conditional sentences

UNIT IV REPORTING OF EVENTS AND RESEARCH

Reading – Newspaper articles; Writing – Recommendations, Transcoding, Accident Report, Survey Report Grammar – Reported Speech, Modals Vocabulary – Conjunctions- use of prepositions

UNIT V THE ABILITY TO PUT IDEAS OR INFORMATION COGENTLY

Reading – Company profiles, Statement of Purpose, (SOP), an excerpt of interview with professionals; Writing – Job / Internship application – Cover letter & Resume; Grammar – Numerical adjectives, Relative Clauses.