Department of English

• Departmental Library-160 Books
• Free Internet Facility for faculty and students
• Language Lab
• Screening

• Essay Competition
• Story Telling Competition
• Speech Competition
• Mock Interview
• Screening of Movies based on literature
• English speaking tour
• Unit tests
• open book test
• Group Discussion
• Guest lecture
• Library Visit
• Seminars
• Project Work
• Recitation of Poems and Newspaper Reading
• Role-Play Activity
• Word Games.

• Welcome of B.A.I students
• Inauguration of wall-papers
• Guest Lectures
• Screening of movies /plays
• Competitions like Storytelling, elocution,
• Poetry recitation, Role-play, Quiz contest
• Student’s Seminars
• Study tours and excursions
• Felicitation of PhD awardees
• Meet of the pass out students
• Visit to Library
• Farewell to B.A.III students.

Introduction:

Ability to communicate in English is global requirement since English is global language of communication. It is found that Indian learners of English language and literature are knowledgeable still they are weak in communication skills. The root cause of this lack of opportunities of exposure is in traditional education pattern. It is observed that many of last year students of the department of English hold from rural area where they do not have any exposure to communicate in English. Besides lack of confidence, their weak economic condition holds them back from improvement. Bearing this in mind, the department of English designed a course in spoken English focusing improving communicative competence especially for the last year students of the department. The department also decided to run this course free of cost on experimental level.

Aims and objectives:

1. to give exposure for communication
2. to provide opportunities to speak on individual level
3. to develop confidence and stage daring by various activities
4. to develop basic communication skills
5. to improve communicative competence

Syllabus of the course

1. Day-to-day conversation like greeting, thanks-giving etc
2. Talking about self- personality likes and dislikes hobbies etc.
3. Talking about others-families, friends, relatives etc
4. Talking about daily routine
5. Situational conversations:
6. Talking to teachers
7. Visiting the bank
8. Visiting the post office
9. Visiting the railway station
10. Visiting the bus stand
11. Preparation for interview
12. Participating in the group discussion

Books for Reference:

1. Prin. R A Kulkarni, A Handbook of Communication Skills in English, Phadake Prakashan, Kolhapur, 2001
2. English for Communication- text books for Part I, II & III published by Shivaji University, Kolhapur
3. aAspi Doctor, A Course in Communication skills in English

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