English & Legal Language

Unit I — ESSENTIAL GRAMMAR, COMPREHENSION SKILLS AND VOCABULARY (The unit will strength the understanding and clarity of grammar items listed below which

will be taken rigorously vide a series of close/gap-filling passages for practice. The unit will also aim at bringing about clarity of words, identifying ambiguities and building a legal English vocabulary. Unseen passages will be administered for comprehension practice and testing). · Articles-Prepositions-Conjunction and Connectors-Tenses-Voices · Prefixes/Suffixes-Synonyms and Antonyms · Common Errors-Legal Vocabulary (Comprising of Legal Maxims and Maxims of Equity)-Unseen Passages

• Grammar
• Verbs/Tenses — Activity
• Active/ Passive — Activity
• Legal Maxims — Actus de nemini facit injuriam

Unit II — COMPOSITION SKILLS (This unit is devoted to enhancing legal writing skills and familiarity with formats of legal

documentation) · Paraphrasing-Drafting-Précis/Briefs · Reports & Recitals (Para-Writing)-Legal Correspondence (Letters, Application, Reports and Press Release) · Legal Essay Writing , Ethics in Legal Writing

• Written Communication
• Techniques/tips on effective letter writing Letter of Application
• Precis Writing (New Addition)
• General English: Essay writing, comprehension, and rules of grammar

Unit III — STUDY OF THEORY (This course will focus on enhancement of their thoughts, ideas and vision for practical

application in their professional life. Because law is deeply implicated in our economic, political, and social worlds, pursuit of change invariably involves an understanding of the deep structures of the society) · Traditional Gender Roles and Feminist Criticism. (With an Overview of Gay, Lesbian and Queer Theory) · Psychoanalysis and the Origin of the Unconscious · Post-colonial Identity

Unit IV — STUDY OF TEXT (The prescribed chapters in this unit illustrates to law students the clarity of thought and

language as well as familiarizes them with use of Satire) · Trials of Gandhiji-M.K. Gandhi · Play Justice-John Galsworthy · Animal Farm- George Orwell

• Justice — John Galsworthy

Unit V — PRESENTATION AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS (A unit aimed at practical communication where the students are helped to make

presentation before an audience, articulate and argue an interpretation. This final unit combines comprehension and oral-written output. Combined with communication skills, the paper will help in developing critical and analytical skills among the students) · Meaning of Communication: Approaches-Directions and Challenges-Formal & Informal Communication-Barriers to Communication · Evaluating and Interpreting Issues · Enhancing Argumentative Skills by enactment of Selective readings from Act IV - Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare.

• Communication Skills
• Oral Communication –Barriers to Verbal & Non-Verbal Communication, Tips for effective communication — Activity
• The Merchant of Venice — William Shakespeare