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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 42 - More Uncommon Words (cont.)


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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