English Language Communication Skills Lab Manual Cum Workbook

includes index and biblioraphy

General Introduction .............1 1. Call Lab ..................15 Introduction to Phonetics ............15 Sounds Mispronounced ...........18 2. ICS Lab ...............27 ICE Breaking Activity : An Introduction ................27 Theory : How do ICe Breaking activities achieve this Goal................28 3. Workbook (Grammar)...............31 Articles ...............31 Work Book Vocabulary ..............38 Prefixes and Sufixes ..................38 II. 1. Speech Sounds : Vowels and Consonants ...........45 Just a Minute Sessions ..............50 2. ICS Lab .........50 Time LItimt .........51 Preposition ........55 Propositions often confused ........57 3. Workbook Vocabulary ........60 A list of Important words often misspelt ..............60 3. Call Lab ..............65 Structure............65 Strong and weak forms of Words ............67 Rules .......68 2. ICS Lab ......69 Situational Dialogues - Role Play ............69 Objectives ..........69 Skills Developed ...............69 Nonverbal Communication .........73 Workbook Grammar....78 Workbook Vocabulary .............83 4. Minimal Pairs .........89 Consonant Clusters ............89 Description of an Object /Person/Place ..........94 How to describe Things /Persons Places..........95 5. word Accent .........109 Narrating an Event ...........114 Question Tags ........117 One word Substitutes............121 6. Intonation ........127 Giving directions /Guidelines ...........133 How to give guidelines for Completing an Assignment .......134 Active to apssive Voice .............138 Passive to Active voice .................140 7. Mother tongue Influence ............149 Hindi Speakers ...............149 Various techniques for neutralisation of MTI Influence ..........150 Listening Comprehension .................151 Information Tranfer : Oral Presentation .............154 Exercises for Practice in lab situation ...................157 Common Errors in English ..................159 Phrasal Verbs ...........170 8. Common Errors in Pronounciation ............179 List of Important Idioms ..................241