English-I

Unit 1 — Communication Skills

1. Usage of a Dictionary- IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) · 2. Concept, Process and Barriers to Communication · 3. Types of Communication and Legal Aspects of Business Communication · 4. Characteristics and Conventions of Conversation · 5. Difference between Conversation and Other Speech Events · 6. Soft Skills for Professional Development

• Oral Communication
• Definition of oral communication, meaning and its importance
• Types of Oral Communication — Verbal Communication — Formal Speech (Oral & Written)
• Oral Communication –Barriers to Verbal & Non-Verbal Communication, Tips for effective communication — Activity

Unit 2 — Professional Vocabulary and Functional Grammar

1. Latin Maxims and Foreign words used in the field of Law · 2. Words Often Misused & Confused, One Word Substitution, Diminutives, Words with Special Idiomatic Uses, Figures of Speech · 3. Functional Grammar and Usages (Sentences, Parts of Speech with emphasis on · Article, Preposition and Concord, Modals etc.)

• Legal Maxims — Actus de nemini facit injuriam
• Grammar

Unit 3 — Advance Composition and Effective Writing Skills

1. Expansion of Ideas and Paragraph Development · 2. Précis Writing · 3. Essay Writing: (Illustrations from the select texts of Francis Bacon, E V Lucas & · Swami Vivekananda) · 4, Appreciating Select Legal and Popular Articles · 5, Meetings: Taking Notes and Preparing Minutes

• Precis Writing (New Addition)
• Elocution/Mock Trials/ Meetings

Unit 4 — Interdisciplinarity: Socio-legal & Cultural Discourses

1. John Galsworthy. Justice · 2. Stanley Fish. “ Is There a Text in This Class” · 3. A. A. Milne. The Man in the Bowler Hat · 4. Gertrude Jennings. Five Birds in a Cage · 5. St. John Hankin. The Constant Lover

• Justice — John Galsworthy

Unit 5 — Reading Visual Texts

1. The Great Debaters · 2. Philadelphia