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Study Skills
• Make notes for personal references • Prepare questionnaires so as to
while listening/reading. compile data in a convenient form.
• Remember and recall necessary • Present information in a concise,
information (and the way it is lucid manner, and choose appropriate
organised) with the help of personal graphics to do so.
notes. • Paraphrase a word/phrase.
• Revise (increasingly larger) chunks of • Use facilities like online applications,
information mentally. know how to make online payments,
• Identify which learning strategies etc.
work best for oneself and use them. • Use the computer/internet for the
• Use reference materials such as purpose of translation/transcription.
different dictionaries, encyclopedias, • Prepare a presentation with the help
etc. effectively. of a computer.
• Compile lists of useful words, • Appreciate and/or critically examine
expressions, idioms, definitions, programmes, films, etc. available
formulas, etc. through mass media/internet etc.
• Translate different types of informative • Use the computer/internet for the
texts from mother tongue into English purpose of translation/transcription.
and English into mother tongue.
• Translate literary pieces from mother
tongue into English and English into Language Study
mother tongue.
• Parts of Speech : Finite verbs
• Identify and correct if necessary, the and infinitives - Participles and
influence of mother tongue on his/her gerunds - Determiners
English.
• Sentence Structure : Types of
• Prepare/compile bilingual glossaries, clauses - Passive constructions
and other reference materials including • Vocabulary and Word Building :
graphics.
Compound words - Changing word
• Use resources from other languages class
while speaking/writing in English. • Punctuation : Colon and Semi-colon
• Frame probing questions to find • Speech : Stress and Intonation
additional information, to find precise
answers to one’s query. • Figures of Speech : Euphemism,
Pun, Irony, Antithesis
