English Proficiency Programme

Legend of abbreviations

• "Title" (in class/lecture): Display and delivery of the material on the sheet with "Title".
• Practice "Title" (in tutorial): The tutor calls students one by one to the board, asks him/her to write a few (4/5) words of family "Title" and then to make a sentence with any one of them. Subsequently, the class or specific students by name are asked to examine the sentence and suggest corrections if wrong.
• Specific (mentioned) exercise on "Title" (in tutorial): From a short list of words from the family "Title", the tutor asks the students to make sentences on the board and then the subsequent examination/correction by the class follows as above.
• Learn "Title" (in home-work): Learn the pronunciation and spelling of words in the family under the "Title".
• Eng: English.
• CLL: Common Local (Medium) Language --- In U.P. it is Hindi.
• Eng to CLL 1-2-3: Exercise of interpreting an English sentence by converting it into CLL through translation of its parts and ordering in the appropriate sequence.
• CLL to Eng 1-2-3: Exercise of translating a CLL sentence into English through translation of its parts and ordering in the appropriate sequence.
• PPF: Present, Past and Future.
• Imp; imperative.
• P/N/I: Positive, negative and/or interrogative.
• P/N/I/I-Wh: Positive, negative, interrogative and/or interrogative with an explicit query (with Wh-word).
• PPF triplet: A set of three associated sentences in simple present, past and future. Example:
  He sells cars. He sold cars. He will sell cars.
• P/N/I triplet: A set of three associated sentences of positive, negative and interrogative types. Example:
  He sells cars. He does not sell cars. Does he sell cars?
• P/N/I/I-Wh quadruplet: A set of four sentences: positive, negative, interrogative and explicit query with Wh-word. Example:
  He sleeps. He does not sleep. Does he sleep? Where does he sleep?
• 3x3 PPF P/N/I set: A 9-sentence set formed by a P/N/I assembly of a PPF triplet.
• 3x4 PPF P/N/I/I-Wh full set: A 12-sentence set formed by a P/N/I/I-Wh assembly of a PPF triplet.
• 3x4 PPF P/N/I/I-Wh mixed set: A 12-sentence set as above, but with no theme-link.