Syllabus, B.Tech. Food Technology, 1st Semester
English Language Unit 1 Introduction: Importance of language and communication skills in the engineering profession: Spoken and conversational English: Main feature, agreement, disagreement, likes, dislikes and inquiries; Debate and discussion. Unit 2 Basic sentence patterns in English: Agreement between subject and verb ; proper use of pronoun, adjective and adverbs; Proper use of phrases and clauses; Some basic rules of composition; Unit 3 Concept of register, development of vocabulary; Reference skills: Dictionary, thesaurus, indexing, contents, glossary; Unit 4 Reading of selected texts and discussion; Vocabulary building tasks; Unit 5 Note-taking and note- making, linkage, development of paragraphs: Cohesion, coherence and style Practical: Grammar tenses, Voice change; Direct/ indirect narration; Preposition and determiners; Word formation with parts of speech; Types of sentences; Elementary knowledge of English sound with with word- stress, intonation pattern; Composition, l...