B.Tech-Soft Skills-BAS-105

                                                         

Syllabus

 

PREVIOUS YEARS' QUESTION PAPERS

2022-23- I SEM

2022-23- II SEM

2023-24- I SEM

2023-24-II SEM

UNIT I- Applied Grammar and Usage: 

1. Transformation of Sentences
• Identification of Finite and nonfinite Verb 
• Test your knowledge- Identify Finite Verb-1
• Test your knowledge- Identify Nonfinite Verb-2
• Test Your Knowledge-Identify Finite/Nonfinite Verb-3
• Sentence identification-Simple, Complex, and Compound
• Test Your Knowledge-Identify Conjunction-1
• Test Your Knowledge-Identify Conjunction-2
• TestYour Knowledge-Identify Sentences Types-1  
• Test Your Knowledge-Identify Sentence Types-2
• Test Your Knowledge-Identify Sentence Types-3
• Transformation- Simple, Compound, and Complex 
• Test Your Knowledge- SCC-Transform Sentences-1
2. Subject-verb agreement💥
• Test your knowledge- Subject-verb agreement-1 Basic
• Test your knowledge- Subject-verb agreement-2
• Test your knowledge- Subject-verb agreement-3
• Test your knowledge- Subject-verb agreement-4
• Test your knowledge- Subject-verb agreement-5
3. Root Words and Affixes
• Prefix
• Suffix
• Interchange of parts of speech by using suffixes
4. Advanced Vocabulary 💥
• Antonyms
• Synonyms
• Homophones, Homographs & Homonyms
• New word Formation💥
5. Select word power 

Grammar Practice Test with Answers-1 

Grammar practice Test with Answers-2

Grammar practice Test with Answers-3

UNIT II- Listening and Speaking Skills

1. Listening Skills
• Difference Between Listening and Hearing
• Listening: 
• Meaning and Art of Listening
• Importance, purposes and guidelines💥
• Traits of a Good Listener
• Listening modes, 
• listening and Note-taking,
• Types of Listening, 
• ListeningTechniques using Ted Talk Audio listening with script reading
2. Speaking Skills
• Pronunciation:
• Speech organs
• Speech Mechanism
• Phonemes/Phonetic symbols
• Vowel Phonemes
• Pure vowel phoneme
• Diphthongs
• Consonant Phonemes
• Speaking style
• content 
• sequencing 💥

UNIT III- Reading and Writing Skills

1. Reading style: 
• Scanning 
• Skimming
• Churning 
• Assimilation 
2. Effective writing tools 
3. Devices of coherence and emphasis in writing.💥
4. Characteristics/Features/Principles of Effective Writing (7 Cs of Communication)💥
5. Components of Effective Writing  💥
6. Writing methods
• Inductive 
• Deductive
• Exposition
• Linear
• Interrupted
• Spatial 
• Chronological etc
7. Letters
• Official Letter Writing
• Difference between Official and Business letters
• Business Letter Writing
•  Business Letter: Structure 
• Business Letter: Features
•  Business Letter: Formats
•  Business Letter Writing Process
•  Business Letter Function
•  Business Letter Types

a.      Sales letter

b.      Inquiry letter

c.      Quotation letters (Replies to Enquiry letter)

d.      Order letter

e.      Complaint letter

f.       Adjustment letter

8. Components of a Business Meeting
• Agenda
• Notices
• Minutes of a meeting 

UNIT IV- Presentation and Interaction Skills

1. Introduction to oral communication
2. Nuances of Presentation
3. Nuances and Methods of Speech Delivery
4. Public speaking: 
• confidence 
• clarity
• fluency
5. Individual Speaking Elements
• Non-verbal Communication
• Kinesics
• Para-linguistic features of Voice-Dynamics
• Proxemics
• Chronemics
• Differences b/w Verbal and nonverbal communication
6. Presentation Strategies
• planning
• preparation
• organization
• Practice
• delivery  

UNIT V- Work- place skills

1. Leader and Leadership, Importance of a Leader
2. Traits of a good leader
3. Roles of a leader
4. Impact of a Leader
5. Communication Skills for Leaders-Listening & Responding
6. Active listening
• Component of active listening
• Importance of active listening in an organization
7. Mental health at the workplace:
8. Managing Stress/Techniques for Managing Stress/Application of 4 A’s 
• Avoid
• Alter 
• Access 
• Adapt
9. Question Bank-Unit-5

QUESTION BANK

Sessional Component, Sessional (SW) (TS/PS), End Semester Exam (ESE),    Total,  Credit,

Theory

CT-20        TA-10,                   30,                                             70,                       100        3

Practical

-                 TA-50                    50                                              50                        100       1

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