1st year EE - Centurion University

BLHU 1112 COMMUNICATIVE PRACTICE LAB –I (0-0-3)The language lab acts as a platform for learning, practicing and producing language skills throughinteractive lessons and communicative mode of teaching. It aims To expose the students to a variety of self- instructional, learner- friendly modes of languagelearning. To enable them to learn better pronunciation through stress on word accent, intonation, andrhythm To maintain good linguistic - through accuracy in grammar, pronunciation and vocabularyA student is required to take up five lab tests of 100 marks- three tests in spoken mode and two tests inwritten mode.The suggestive assignments in the lab are intended as learning activities to assist the student inaccomplishing the course objectives:I. FRIENDLY COMMUNICATION: 9 HOURSa) Doing Things with Words: To ask for information, help, permission; To instruct, command,request, accept, refuse, prohibit, persuadeb) Practice of Formulaic Expressions: Greetings, farewells, introductions, thanks, apologies, regrets,good wishes, congratulations, condolences, offers.c) Conversation Practice in familiar and unfamiliar situationsII. GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARYThe focus will be on the appropriate usage of language.a) Elimination of common errorsb) Editing passagesc) Word power A-Z: Easy and quick techniquesd) Vocabulary building exercises9 HOURSIII.PHONETICS AND SPOKEN ENGLISH12 HOURSStudents will be trained to find out the correct pronunciation of words with the help of adictionary /software, to enable them to monitor and correct their own pronunciation.a)Pronunciation Guidelines: Consonants and VowelsPronunciation practice (for accent neutralization), particularly of problem sounds, inisolated words as well as sentences9