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English Language for Competitive Exams

English Language for Competitive Exams. Instructor: Dr. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. The course aims to help participants develop their English language skills, particularly those planning to appear for competitive exams that test their English language abilities. During a span of 30 hours, students will be exposed to material that facilitates aspects of grammar, writing and vocabulary. (from nptel.ac.in)

Lecture 49 - Modifiers, Active Voice and Passive Voice

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Reading Comprehension

Lecture 01 - What is Reading Comprehension?

Lecture 02 - Literature and Reading Comprehension

Lecture 03 - Scientific Passages and Reading Comprehension

Lecture 04 - Analyze a Task

Lecture 05 - Analyze a Task (cont.)

Writing Tasks

Lecture 06 - Reading - Comprehending Scientific Passages

Lecture 07 - Comprehending Literary Passages

Lecture 08 - Comprehending Literary Passages (cont.)

Lecture 09 - Academic Writing

Lecture 10 - Text Completion

Writing and Listening

Lecture 11 - Analogy

Lecture 12 - Writing: Long Essays

Lecture 13 - Writing: Long Essays (cont.)

Lecture 14 - Listening

Lecture 15 - Writing: Imaginative Essays

Lecture 16 - Listening for Scientific Information

Vocabulary

Lecture 17 - Reading Comprehension

Lecture 18 - Reading Comprehension: Long Passages

Lecture 19 - Verbal Analogy and Vocabulary

Lecture 20 - Vocabulary: Word Families and Confusable Words

Lecture 21 - Vocabulary: Word Origins and Confusable Words

Text Comprehension and Vocabulary

Lecture 22 - Vocabulary: Text Completion

Lecture 23 - Vocabulary: Text Completion (cont.)

Lecture 24 - Vocabulary: Text Completion (cont.)

Lecture 25 - Vocabulary: Synonyms, Meanings and Confusable Words

Text Completion

Lecture 26 - Text Completion

Lecture 27 - Text Completion (cont.)

Lecture 28 - Analogy and Text Completion

Lecture 29 - Text Completion (cont.)

Lecture 30 - Text Completion (cont.)

Improving Vocabulary

Lecture 31 - Names and Vocabulary

Lecture 32 - Latin Terms in English Vocabulary

Lecture 33 - Greek Mythology and Vocabulary

Lecture 34 - Greek Names and Foreign Words

Lecture 35 - Vocabulary Practice Test

Lecture 36 - Analogy

Lecture 37 - Foreign Words and Names

Lecture 38 - Suffixes and Reference Words

Lecture 39 - Uncommon Words

Lecture 40 - Uncommon Words (cont.)

Lecture 41 - More Uncommon Words

Lecture 42 - More Uncommon Words (cont.)

Lecture 43 - Vocabulary and Analogy

Lecture 44 - Vocabulary: Mixed Bag

Improving Grammar

Lecture 45 - Subject-Verb Agreement and Sentence Correction

Lecture 46 - Sentence Correction

Lecture 47 - Conditional Clauses, Prepositions and Reported Speech

Lecture 48 - Clauses

Lecture 49 - Modifiers, Active Voice and Passive Voice

Lecture 50 - Gerunds and Infinitives

Lecture 51 - Coordinators and Conjunctions

Lecture 52 - Coordinators and Conjunctions (cont.)

Lecture 53 - Grammar: Words and Expressions

Lecture 54 - Grammar: Phrasal Verbs

Lecture 55 - Punctuation

Lecture 56 - Punctuation (cont.)

Revision

Lecture 57 - Revision: Vocabulary

Lecture 58 - Revision: Subject Verb Agreement

Lecture 59 - Read and Revise

Lecture 60 - Idioms and Collocations