EN25C01 English Essentials I Syllabus:

EN25C01 English Essentials I Syllabus – Anna University UG Syllabus Regulation 2025

Course Objectives:

• Enhance learners’ listening and speaking skills to understand and deliver speeches effectively
• Equip students with the skills to write clear, coherent, and grammatically correct texts for various purposes.
• Strengthen the ability to comprehend, interpret, and analyse written English across diverse contexts.

Speaking Skills: Self-Introduction (Tenses, Adjectives) Expressing opinions (SubjectVerb Agreement), Participating in Conversations (Speech Acts – agreeing & disagreeing – synonyms and antonyms)
Suggested Activities: Self-Introduction, Just a Minute (JAM) Video recording, Situational role plays, Spell Bee, Word Substitution, Usage of Apps.

Listening Skills: Listening to Simple Conversations (Understanding tone and intent), Short Speeches / Stories, Extracting information, Pronunciation, Listening to Various Accents.
Suggested Activities: Listening and Repeating, Gap fill exercises, Note-taking

Reading Skills: Reading Strategies – (Skimming, scanning, predicting) intensive reading – short passages and long passages on suggested themes (Sentence Patterns, Prefixes and suffixes, idioms and phrases).
Activities: Reading – newspaper and digital articles, Cloze, Reading comprehension, note making and summarising,

Writing Skills: Word Substitution, Sentence Formation, Hints Development (Guided Writing), Writing Different Types of Paragraphs – (Sentence Structure) – Letter Writing / Emails (Informal)
Activities: Error Detection, Picture and poster description, Descriptive, Narrative and Comparative paragraphs, Brainstorming and Mind Mapping – Informal letters/ Emails

Weightage: Continuous Assessment: 40%, End Semester Examinations: 60%
Assessment Methodology: Quiz (10%), Assignments (20%), Speaking Task (10%), Reading Task (10%), Writing Task (10%), Internal Examinations (40%).

References:

1. Miller, K. Q., & Wahl, S. T. (2023). Business and Professional Communication: KEYS for Workplace Excellence (5th ed.). SAGE Publications.
2. Kumar, Sanjay & Pushpalatha. (2018). English Language and Communication Skills for Engineers. India: Oxford University Press.
3. Sharma, S., & Mishra, B. (2024). Communication Skills for Engineers and Scientists (2nd ed.). PHI Learning.

E-resources:

1. Cambridge English – https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/learning-english/grammar-and-vocabulary/
2. Perfect English Grammar – https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/
3. British Council – Learn English – https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar
4. Speechling – https://speechling.com/
5. mePro by Pearson – https://mepro.pearson.com/
6. TED Talks – https://www.ted.com/