3rd
Semester English
1)
Importance of English language for employability/
action plan to improve English Language skills
2)
Routines- father, mother, sister, brother, teacher /
What you do on Sundays/ holidays etc.,
3)
Expressing feelings-suitable words / situations
4)
Likes and dislikes- what do you like in your friend/
a movie/ novel etc?
5)
Questions –framing questions
6)
Food- Describe food you had in a hotel/ hostel/
function etc.
7)
Note making- Cue method/ mapping method
8)
Summarizing-
9)
Telephoning skills- calling your boss/ railway
station, fixing/ cancelling/ rescheduling
appointment, booking tickets
10)
Making requests-
Please…./ can you…./ could you please….
11)
Offering help- May I…./ Shall I….
12)
Seeking permission- Can I use your computer? May I…? Could I….?
13)
Giving permission- Yes, Of course./ Certainly./Sure
/ By all means.
14)
Making complaints- I am sorry to say that it is not working. Could you please
repair it?
15)
Offering suggestions- Shall we ….? / Let’s …. / How about ….?
16)
Extending and accepting invitations- Would you like
to come to the party? / why don’t you…?/ Please do come…
Thank you, that would be great. / Thank you but I’m
sorry I won’t be able to attend.
17)
Making comparisons- Write a paragraph comparing your school life to your
college life. Etc.,
18)
Quantity- identify/ use quantity denoting words- a
little, a few, little, few, some, any, many, lot of, plenty of, full, half
enough, all etc.,
19)
Possessions- describe what you have/ what you do not
have. / describing your house/college/ lab/ school etc.,
20)
Past- describe a past event.
21)
Fill up the blanks with dialogues/ questions
22)
Reading Comprehension tests
Probable Questions
Importance of English
Make an action plan to improve your English keeping in mind the needs,
problems and solutions/ Importance of English / English and employability
Your likes and dislikes & the likes and dislikes of your neighbour/ your
uncle/ your teacher your aunt/ your cousin / your grandfather
Write what food/drinks you have every day/often/rarely/never.
Write about the food you had
at a wedding that you recently attended.
Write the dialogue to
-fix an appointment with your doctor?
-Request the receptionist to
fix an appointment to meet the Municipal Commissioner at 4.00 p.m. to register
a complaint about irregular supply of drinking water.
-Request the receptionist to fix an
appointment with the Neurologist for treatment
-Request the receptionist to
reschedule the appointment with the surgeon as you are out of the town.
-Due to the bad weather, you cannot
practice cricket at Gymkhana ground.
Request the coach to reschedule the time for today’s practice
-You cannot meet the teacher as you
have to take your grandmother to hospital.
-Your
boss wants you to go to Vijayawada
to inspect the branch office there.
-Tell your friend that you cannot accept his
invitation for dinner.
-Write a dialogue that takes
place to fix an appointment with the Deputy Engineer, A.P. Transco to ask his
permission to visit the substation.
-A student requests permission from the librarian to
take a reference book out for photo copying as the library photo copier is out
of order
-A student asks the teacher’s
permission to borrow a scale from a friend in the drawing hall.
-An employee asks permission
from his boss to leave office an hour early.
-A
student asks permission from parent to go to an excursion to Goa
-You are going on a
holiday. You don’t have a camera. You ask your friend for it. Your friend gives it to you. Write the dialogue.
-You are the group leader.
Your group wants to visit an industry nearby your Polytechnic. Ask the manager
of the company for permission to see it. Write the dialogue.
Write dialogue making complaints
-You are studying for your
examinations. Your neighbour is playing
music on a high volume.
-A’ is a
guest in a hotel. She finds the phone in
her room out of order and complains
to the
receptionist
-You bought a watch at a
shop. It is not working properly. Make a complaint.
-Complain to your neighbour
about the garbage dumped in front of your house.
-Make a complaint to the principal that the electrical
motor in your hostel needs repair as you are taking acute water shortage.
-Your co-passenger in the bus
is smoking. The smoke makes you sick. Make a complaint to the conductor.
-You bought a laptop. It is a
faulty one. Make a complaint to the shopkeeper.
Your feelings in the given situations- (express in full sentences
e.g. I was …./ I felt...)
Identify the following
Complaints
/Offering help/ Suggestions/ Seeking permission/ Requests/Accepting or
rejecting invitation
Using polite expressions / making polite
requests/ offering help in the given situations
eg
-Request
the clerk to cancel your railway ticket
-Request
the traffic constable to show you the way to railway station.
-You
can’t go to shopping as you are busy. Request your roommate to do it for you.
-You
are staying in a hostel. The tap in your
bathroom is leaking. Request the plumber
to repair it.
-A
woman who was traveling by a train wants to buy a water bottle at a station
where the train doesn’t stop for more than a couple of minutes. You observed
it.
-Your
neighbour is waiting for an auto to go to his office. You are also going on the same direction by a
car.
-You
see an old man who is trying to board a bus with a lot of luggage.
-Your
friend’s cycle tyre has a puncture. He
is finding it difficult to change the
tyre/ get it repaired
Seeking and giving permission
-Ask your brother to bring
your friend to his party
-Request your mother to
switch off the fan in the room
-Request your teacher to
borrow a dictionary for a day
-Request your neighbour to
use internet in his house for an hour.
-Request your principal to
one day leave of absence
Write a paragraph
- Write about how you spent
your last summer using the following words
-Give suggestions to your
cousin on ways of improving English communication skills
-Write a paragraph using the
hints about your experience during a bus journey
-Write a paragraph on the
poor service of a telephone company
-Write a paragraph on the
shop you prefer to buy your clothes from& Compare that shop with the others
and give reasons for your preference & Show similarities and differences by
using words of comparison
-Write a paragraph about
things that you own.
-Write
about your scientific calculator and its features
-Write about your English
Language laboratory and the facilities you have there.
- Write a paragraph about
your childhood possessions
-Write a paragraph describing
the first day of your college life.
- Write a paragraph about a
funny situation in your life.
-Write about your favourite
school teacher
Compare the following
-a bicycle and a motor cycle in terms of cost, speed
and usefulness
-a television and a radio in terms of cost,
entertainment and information
-a car and a bus in terms of cost, maintenance and
usefulness
-a mobile phone and a landline phone in terms of
usefulness and mobility
Daily routine:
Your / your mother’s /father’s/ friend’s/teacher’s daily routine
-Write about the “Daily
Routines” of a housewife
- Write a paragraph on what you do on Sundays and holidays.
-Describe your neighbour’s
activities in your own words
Telephone conversation
-Make
a call to the bus station enquiry and ask about the timing of the first bus to Hyderabad. Note down the conversation between the clerk
and yourself.
-Make
a call to Leela Travelers and hire a car for an official tour.
-Your telephone is not working. Give a
complaint using another phone.
- Make a call to a courier service and
ask them to collect letters from your office.
- Invite
your classmate to your birthday
- Telephone a travel agency and book two
air tickets to Chennai.
- Call your friend and find out the price
and specifications of a television that he
has bought. Write the dialogue
Framing questions
-You have seen an
advertisement of a house for sale. Write down the questions you would ask the
owner of the house who wishes to sell it.
-What questions you would ask
your senior to know how he has got a job.
-Write the questions that a
policeman is likely to ask when he gets a complaint about a lost bike.
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