PEL112A: PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS-I

L:1 T:2 P:0 Credits:3

Course Outcomes: Through this course students should be able to:

• master real world writing tasks with linguistic accuracy
• employ academic vocabulary appropriately for meaningful interaction
• outline inferences and predictions based on comprehension of the text
• reframe personal and professional documents by using language effectively
• justify individual stance precisely in conversational setting
• develop critical thinking skills to be employed in small groups and public speaking

Language Skills

Listening: listening for job interview questions, understanding intonation and sentence rhythm,
understanding details and answering questions, choosing the best responses, listening stories
and completing sentences, listening and practicing the groups of words, listening to the
documentaries and answering the questions

Speaking: describing pictures, presenting views and answering questions using conditionals,
presenting stories, irregular past forms, sentence rhythm, syllables and word stress, organizing
views, participating in formal discussions, presenting information and giving details

Reading: skimming and scanning to find information, understanding point of view, using one’s
knowledge to predict content, completing sentences, gathering specific information and data

Writing: writing an email, writing short stories, writing a blog post, writing
description

ASSOCIATED LANGUAGE SKILLS

Grammar: question formation, auxiliary verbs, past tense, position of adverbs and adverbial
phrases, future tense, zero and first conditionals, unreal conditionals, wish for present
future past simple

Vocabulary: vocabulary related to illness and injuries, styles of clothing, travel, adverbs and
adverbial phrases, weather, adjectives

Text Books:

1. ENGLISH FILE 4th EDITION by CHRISTINA LATHAM-KOENIG, CLIVE OXENDEN, KATE CHOMACKI,
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

References:

1. ESSENTIAL GRAMMAR IN USE by RAYMOND MURPHY, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 4th

EDITION
2. DEVELOPING READING SKILLS: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO READING COMPREHENSION
EXERCISES by FRANCOISE GRELLET, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS