Syllabus | EN 2102: Technology Based Communication Skills

Functional dialogues (10/05 hrs)

  • Express approval / disapproval, likes / dislikes, surprise / wonder / hope / fear / disappointment
  • Focus: strategies for avoiding communication breakdowns and comprehension problems
  • Activities: create and write their own dialogues and practice saying them,(pair and group tasks)
Group/pair discussions: information gap activities (10/05 hrs)

  • Focus: asking and answering questions, using a conversational register and syntax.
  • Types of activities: finding the differences in pictures/notices/ invitations etc.

Role plays using role play cards (10/05 hrs)

  • Focus: speaking appropriately in different situations.
  • Procedure: prepare role play situations and cues for the two persons. Give them time to prepare. Get them to enact the situation using the cues. Provide at least 4 cues.
e.g. situation; You have borrowed a friend’s notes over a week ago and promised to return
them the next day. You’ve still got them. What do you say to him when you see him?
You must speak first.
Cue card:
- Say how you feel about not returning the notes
- Say why you couldn’t return them
- Cue card to the friend
- Tell him not to worry
- Ask whether he copied the notes, etc

Dialogues/drama based on stories (10/05 hrs)

  • Read stories and write dialogues /plays based on them. Rehearse, and act them out.

Describe a process (10/05 hrs)

  • Focus: use linking words correctly when describing a sequence of actions
  • Types of activities: how to operate a computer, describing an experiment

Making presentations - using the OHP and other media (10/05 hrs)

  • Focus: using facial expressions, body language, and other non-verbal cues and visuals to convey meaning, how to use a neutral or more formal style of speaking
  • Procedure: brainstorm around a topic; organize the presentation, find necessary visuals- pictures, maps etc. make the presentation to the rest of the class.
  • Suggested topics: Changing lifestyles of people, how ‘green’ are you?
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