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B1: Idea units & Fluency: Importance of
theory. Importance of oral practice. How to do
your study. Non-detailed study. Detailed study.
Learning in bursts. Do a lot of general reading.
Ordinary novels suit fluency-building best. Recommended
reading. You need a good dictionary. Avoid bilingual
dictionaries. Avoid high-sounding and rarely-used
words. What dictionary should you buy? Fluency,
only through idea units. Speech comes
first, and writing, only next. Non-native
speakers learn English the wrong way.
Learning words alone wont help. Bite-sized
pieces of ideas. How does natural speech come
out? What does natural speech come out in? Let
ready-to-assemble units do your work for you.
Idea units: Your key to speech and fluency. Idea
units of speech, and sentences
of writing. How context helps the speaker. Importance
of context. Types of idea units. Word knowledge
and word mastery. Why cant we speak in sentences?
Just a little at a time, and not a mouthful. Strands
of information. Length and shape of idea units.
Points for dividing speech. Guidelines for dividing
speech into idea units. Embedding and lining up.
Roundabout connectivity. Straight connectivity.
Speak in idea units, and not in sentences. Read
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B2: Speech Generation & Flow Production:
Speech-generation Technique. Learning by heart
is NOT a solution. Generative Feature & Generative
Structures. How does the Generative Feature work?
Generation through substitution.
How to become skilled at substitution. Core words:
Words of the most general utility. Neutral and
non-neutral vocabulary. Formal vocabulary. Informal
vocabulary. Slang. Fitting vocabulary items into
General Structures. How to master the speech generating
skill? Generative Structure drills. Spare-parts
for speech generation. Naming Part. Action Part.
Descriptive Part. Circumstance Part. Flow-production
Techniques. Word-junctions. Junction practice.
Mixed material for flow-practice. Informal vocabulary.
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B3: Teaching your Tongue & Speech Rhythm:
Teaching your tongue.
Important principles of description. Descriptive
principle. The way to teach your tongue. Word
List. Rhythm and flow of speech. The syllable.
Two groups of words. The way the English language
flows. The way other (= non-English) languages
flow. Uniform stress. Uniform time distribution.
Let English flow the way English should flow.
Up and down movement. Syllable stress. Polysyllabic
words. Monosyllabic words. Weak function words.
Schwa. Neutral function words. Guidelines.
Limited freedom. Shortened forms. Foot and rhythm.
The fundamental principle of English rhythm. Beating
the rhythm. The silent stress. Unstressed syllables
at the beginning of words. Speed of
speech. Frequently-used polysyllabic words. An
important exercise. Questions for Practice. Importance
of the drill with word groups. Two important exercises.
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B4: Key speech-initiators & Speech-unit Patterns:
Key speech-initiators. Basic speech-initiators.
Advanced speech-initiators. Everyday speech-initiators.
Whys the word group-repetition drill so
important? Key phrase patterns. Action patterns
& clause patterns. Link verb patterns. Intransitive
verb patterns. Simple monotransitive verb patterns.
Complex monotransitive verb patterns. Ditransitive
verb patterns. Naming patterns. Rhythm drill.
Short responses. Negative meaning. Fluency nucleus.
Chats and serious conversations. Long sequences
and short sequences. Short sequences. Long sequences.
Level of fluency. Read
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S1 & S2: Fluency in Functional English (Parts
I & II): How to use English to express
175 everyday communicative functions. How to express
ability, admiration, agreement, appreciation,
approval, certainty, condolences, gratitude, intention,
likes, likelihood, possibility, preference, prohibition,
reluctance, satisfaction, good wishes, wants,
wishes, etc. How to express anger, annoyance,
disappointment, doubt, fear, hope, indecision,
indifference, irritation, pleasure, regret, sarcasm,
surprise, sympathy, worry, etc. How to use English
to accept something, admit something, advise someone,
compliment someone, congratulate someone, contradict
someone, criticize someone, deny something, forgive
someone, offer, accept or decline help, make an
invitation, give an opinion, praise someone, reassure
someone, report progress, refuse a request, make
a suggestion, threaten to do something, etc. Read
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S3: Fluency in Telephone English & Sectoral
English: Fluency in Telephone English. Guidelines
for making a call. Guidelines for answering a
call. Telephone word groups. Word groups for use
while making a phone call. Word groups for use
while answering a phone call. Word groups to speak
about telephoning in general. Fluency in Business
English. Fluency in Banking English. Fluency in
Travel English. Speaking about Food and Drink.
Everyday politics. Read
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B5: How to deal with hesitation: Pauses and
syllable lengthening. Junction pauses. Junction
pauses and grammatical breaks. Spontaneous speech.
Non-spontaneous speech. Hesitation pauses. Pause
notation. Paracomplex, paraboundaries and parapauses.
Minor and major boundaries. Syllable lengthening.
Public & non-public and formal & non-formal
situations. Speech production and hesitation.
Problems causing hesitation. Result of hesitation.
Native and foreign hesitation. Native hesitation
is a normal phenomenon. A basic reason for lack
of fluency. Giving flow to your speech. Preventing
foreign hesitations. Dealing with hesitations.
Pauses. Hesitation noises. Hesitation fillers.
Hesitation caused by 6 Problems. Guidelines. Practice
with action word-groups. Questions for rhythm
drill. Questions for practice. Read
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B6: Oral Training in Fluency Vocabulary (Part
I): Training in General Structures.
The way speech gets produced. Frame-work for speech-production.
Shape of speech units. Fluency tools. Repeated
exposure. The most important point in vocabulary
choice. About words you should master. Objective-based
vocabulary-development. The test for word-selection.
General structures. Subsidiary word groups. Place-relating
word groups. Time-relating word groups. Frequently-used
monosyllabic words. Words of the greatest general
service. Practice with major word groups. Action
word groups. Naming word groups. Phrasal verbs.
Phrasal-prepositional verbs. Prepositional verbs.
Adjective + Noun combinations. Read
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B7: Packing of information: Techniques of
information-packing. Subordination and co-ordination.
Nature of information-packing and fluency. How
to avoid dense packing. Special subordinate constructions.
Complex phrases. Pre-modification and Post-modification.
Modification and complexity. How to avoid modification.
Exceptional cases. Re-reference. Classifying function.
Adjective + Noun combinations. Noun
+ Noun combinations. Conventional pre-modifiers.
Non-specific modification. Intensifiers and downtoners.
Fluency and word-modification. How to avoid modification.
Intensifiers. Downtoners. How to avoid complexity.
Embedded noun-phrases. Specific and non-specific
words. Composing speech and speaking at the same
time. Mental assessment and planning. Control
of speech delivery. Inevitability of loose packing.
Speech composition features. Listeners point
of view. Looseness vs. Conciseness. Read
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B8: Impromptu Speech-flow techniques: Impromptu
word group ordering. Makeshift improvisations.
Special ways of word group ordering. Topiccomment
arrangement. Commenttopic arrangement. Repeated
reference. Self-correction. Arrangement in parenthesis.
Fronting. Appended word groups. Fragmentary word
groups. Struggle-free speech-composition. Two
types of self-imposed restrictions. Inter-related
restrictive actions. Two techniques to smooth
the way. Use of comment clauses. Comment clauses
in statements. Comment clause combinations. Vagueness
and Imprecision. Non-occurrence and non-availability
of lexical item. Listing. Talking about quantity,
number, duration, etc. Vagueness and uncertainty
about what/who/where. Quality, description, etc.
sort of. Vagueness through intensification.
Generic use of you and they.
Starting trouble. Discourse markers. Discourse
markers in combination. Combination of comment
clauses and discourse markers. Topic shift. Other
topic shift markers. Steadying influence of the
hesitation pause. Analyze the texts now. Read
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S4: Fluency Building & Mouth Gymnastics:
Fluency through mouth gymnastics. Past experience
handicaps advanced non-native learners. Mouth
gymnastics. Ineffective methods. Fluency in wrong
usages is a handicap. Word classes for mouth gymnastics.
Knowledge of organs of speech. The vocal apparatus.
Word groups for mouth gymnastics. Read
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S5: Fluency in Speaking about People: A persons
make-up. Behaviour. Attitude. Intelligence.
Personality & personality traits. Feelings
& emotions. Read
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B9: Fluency in Asking Questions: How to make
questions. Role of questions. Difficulty in framing
questions. Chief reason for the difficulty. Question
types. Yes-No questions. Conversion of statements
into yes-no questions. Responses to yes-no questions.
Negative yes-no questions. Everyday yes-no questions
for practice. Wh-questions. Conversion of statements
into wh-questions. Advanced wh-questions. Everyday
wh-questions for practice. Question-initiator
word groups. Declarative questions. Yes-no declarative
questions. Wh-declarative questions. Tag questions.
Structure. Special cases. Three important points
you should remember. Invariant tag questions.
Rhythm drill. Read sample
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B10: Oral Training in Fluency Vocabulary (Part
II): Reply Expressions. Prompt-response practice.
Subsidiary word groups. Manner word groups. Complementation
of verbs by prepositional phrases. Prepositional
phrases. The lexical bond. Free combinations of
verbs and prepositions. Prepositional verbs are
not phrasal verbs. Frequently-used prepositional
phrases. Generative Structures. Fluency and General
Structures. Phrasal verbs. Adjective+Noun
word groups. Fixed Expressions. Read
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B11: Fluency & Moment-to-moment speech production:
Life-giving elements of spoken English. A common
mistake. Speech-composition features & duration
of speech. Spoken English texts. The conversational
touch. Directives. Exclamations. Special conversational
emphasis. Leaving out words. Comparison. Comparison
of qualities and characteristics. Comparison of
manner. Phrasal verbs. Adjective + Noun. Read
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B12: Oral Training in Fluency Vocabulary (Part
III): Everyday Medical English: Speaking about
health and illness. Doctor to patient. Case-taking:
Questioning the patient. Examination procedure.
Mental examination by doctor. Diagnosis/treatment.
Language patients use. General illness. Patients
speaking about their mental state. General. Speech
initiators in educated circles. How do people
judge you? The way to sound educated and cultured.
Image-building word groups. Adjective + noun.
Phrasal verbs. Everyday questions for practice.
Prompt-response practice. Rhythm drill. Final
words. Read sample pages
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S6: Fluency in Topicwise English (Part I):
Fluency in speaking about a wide range of topics.
Driving. Vehicle repairs & maintenance. Clothes.
Weather. Money. Entertainment & Leisure. Read
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S7: Fluency & Pronunciation: Pronunciation
of conversational English. How to pronounce English
like a native speaker of English. Intensive practice.
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S8: Fluency in Topicwise English (Part II):
Good and bad. Farming, agriculture & gardening.
Sports & Games. Essential computer English.
Crime. Nature. Buildings and Home. Read
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