Target Audience
Students of standard 12 and above
Duration
10 Months (1 hour a day, 5 days a week)
Annual Fee
24,000/-
Contents
How to improve listening
combative listening, attentive listening, reflective listening, listening with a purpose, listening for gist, listening for details, predicting, making inferences, listening to various accents, etc.
How to speak fluently
fluency in asking questions, group discussions, fluency techniques, situational conversations, public speaking, interview skills, description, narration, presentation skills, communicative functions, spoken English techniques, etc.
How to read faster and better
scanning, skimming, predicting, making inferences, intensive reading, extensive reading, reading for fun, reading with a purpose, etc.
How to write effectively
writing with a purpose, mechanics of writing, formality and formats, choice of words,
the ABC of writing–accuracy, brevity and clarity; writing letters, reports, essays, speeches, dialogues, etc.
How to enrich vocabulary
Stage 1: classified vocabulary, nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, felicitous phrases, etc.
Stage 2: collocations, one word for many, synonyms, antonyms, homophones, etc.
Stage 3: technical terminology, jargon, clicés, journalistic vocabulary, similes, idioms, etc.
How to develop grammatical competence
parts of speech, time and tense, passive voice, modal auxiliaries, types of sentences, conditionals, articles, special patterns, phrases and clauses, indirect speech, infinitives, gerunds, participles, etc.
How to improve pronunciation
consonant sounds, vowel sounds, rhythm, intonation and its functions, removing mother tongue influence (MTI), primary & secondary word stresses, accents, etc.