List of Topics for Communication Skills Training

Course overview / orientation and Ice-Breaking

 Major observations with regard to teaching of English
 Speaking skills orientation & basic rules for effective conversation

 Commonly mispronounced words

 Difference between British and American English differences
 Stress and intonation
 Politeness

 Word Formation (Such as root, stem, difference between content and functional words,
prefixes, suffixes, etc
 Formal and Informal Words
 Difference between Will Vs Going to
 Other ways / words to say ‘in conclusion’
 Difference between whenever-wherever-whatever-whoever-however
 Useful Adjectives in English conversation

 Sentence structure
 Common errors in sentences such Grammatical such as subject + verb agreement, faulty
parallelism, dangling modifiers
 Basic rules for effective conversation
 Word order (NOSASCOM etc.)

 Formal and informal Phrases

 Formal and informal words
 Idioms

 English conversation discussion topics

 Everyday conversation like formal / informal greetings and farewells, calling for help,
telephone-call, giving opinion / advice
 Situational dialogues & Role-plays
 Discussion / description of picture, scenery, etc
 Story completion (Initial sentence will be shared by the facilitator and the course-
participants will be asked to create the remaining part)
 Reading activity
 Impromptu speeches on given topics
 Article / Movie-review