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Module on Communication Skills in English
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OBJECTIVES
After going through this unit, you will be able to :
· Illustrate how to greet and introduce each other in both formal and
informal situations;
· Describe the techniques pertains to greetings, which will help you
improve your reading skills;
· complete activities which will familiarize you how greetings are done in
other cultures;
· substitute the present tense verb ‘Be’ and subject-verb agreement which
will improve your editing skills;
· assess the importance of dialogues for improving the intensive listening
skills;
· analyse the nuances of English pronunciation better because you would
understand that there is no correlation between English spelling and
sounds;
· identify points relating to effective use of body language as a teacher and
make a presentation on it.
GRAMMAR
The grammar section is primarily for creating awareness which will be
useful for editing your written work. Do read it if you are shaky on some
aspects of English language.
The Simple Present Tense: Verb ‘to be’
Words such as think, make, lead, decide, recycle are termed verbs and each
describes an action. They are also often referred to as action words. A
sentence is incomplete without a verb. There are however, some verbs which
do not describe any action.