B.Sc. - Acharya Nagarjuna University

Part – B (50 Marks)
COMMUNICATION CURRICULUM
YEAR – II COMMUNICATION CURRICULUM
Year – II
/ Level – 2
Modules
II­B­1
Spoken English
II­B­2
Listening
Comprehension
Topics Skills / Activities Time
1. Neutralization
of Accent­
Pronunciation
2. Art of
Conversation
3. Giving a
Formal
Talk/Speech
4. Telephoning
Skills
1.
*Barriers to
listening
*Types of
listening­
▪ Academic
(lectures)
▪ Information
(facts and
inferences)
2. Real life
listening­
▪ railway/airport
▪announcements,
radio/TV news
▪ casual
conversations
· Word stress, tone, pitch, speed,
weak forms, pauses
· Reading aloud texts
· Sentence stress (Recording voice)
· Intonation
· Word ending pronunciation
· Problem sounds
· Accents – regional, standard
· Reducing MTI
· Initiating, sustaining, closing, turntaking,
interrupting, apologizing,
clarifying, confirming, etc.
· Speech type: Describing/Narratingpeople,
place, things, events
· 1­3 minute talks (e.g. welcoming a
gathering)
· Types of Calls­Formal/Informal
· Making/changing appointments
· Practice with Mock Calls
· Telephone etiquette
· Role play
· Listening to and understanding live
or recorded text
· Taking dictation­paragraphs,
dialogues (written/spoken)
· Identifying context
· Listening for the main idea
· Listening for specific information
· Information transfer­filling in a
form/table while listening
Frame
40
Hours
Additional
Infrastructure
Requirement
10 *Sound System
* Recording
facility
10 Nil
4 *Sound System
10 *Speaker
Phone
recommended
3 *Audio,
CD / Tapes
3 *Audio,
CD / Tapes