B.Tech-Soft Skills-BAS-105

 

                                                          SOFT SKILLS-BAS-105                                                                         

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. Affixes
• Prefix
• Suffix
• Interchange of parts of speech by using suffixes
4. Advanced Vocabulary 
• Antonyms
• Synonyms
• Homophones
• 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. Writing methods
• Inductive 
• Deductive
• Exposition
• Linear
• Interrupted
• Spatial 
• Chronological etc
4. 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

5. 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
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

BAS155 / BAS255 : ENGLISH LANGUAGE LAB 

 

COMMUNICATION: LANGUAGE AS A TOOL

LANGUAGE AS A TOOL FOR COMMUNICATION

Language is a system made up of some specific symbol and the combination of these symbols in different ways gives different meanings.

For example-  the three alphabets- e, a, t can be combined or arranged in the following two ways to give different meanings - eat, ate, and tea.

Language is the way by which we share our views, ideas, feelings, and information. It means we communicate through language. Or we can say language is just like a tool in our hand by using which we can communicate with each other. Communication is made possible with the help of language only.

The tool is actually a scientifically developed instrument that is used by man in different ways to reduce efforts. Man has invented many tools to make his life easy and language is the most remarkable tool as he has a genuine need for linguistic communication. So he needs language as communication is important for socialization and it creates an environment of brotherhood around the globe. People from different countries, groups, and castes, share their knowledge with the help of language. It is a language that distinguishes man from animal. According to T. Balasubramanium “Language has a very important social purpose because it is mainly used for linguistic communication. Language serves the community and it also has a certain function to perform.

The main functions of language are-

    1. exchanging of information

    2. persuasion

    3. counseling

    4. co-ordination

  5. communication

     We can compare language with tools as there are similarities between them.

1.    As we use different tools to perform different functions, in the same way, we use language to perform communication.

2.    Like any other tool language also has its salient features. So, we can say that language is a tool for communication.

3.    Language was invented by man it is artificial like tools.

4.    Language can be used in two ways oral or written. Both have their own merits and demerits. But it took centuries to give birth to the written form of language.

5.    Language is a system of conventional spoken or written symbols by means of which humans participate in cultural groups.