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English Language for Competitive Exams

Prof. Aysha Viswamohan · IIT Madras

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Lectures

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  1. What is Reading Comprehension? Video
  2. Literature and Reading Comprehension Video
  3. Scientific Passages and Reading Comprehension Video
  4. Analyze a Task 1 Video
  5. Analyze a task-2 Video

week-02

  1. Comprehending Scientific Passages Video
  2. Comprehending Literary Passages - 1 Video
  3. Comprehending Literary Passages - 2 Video
  4. Academic writing Video
  5. Text - Completion Video

week-03

  1. Analogy Video
  2. Writing : Long Essays Video
  3. Writing : Long Essays ( Continued... ) Video
  4. Listening Video
  5. Writing : Imaginative Essays Video
  6. Listening for Specific Information Video

week-04

  1. Reading Comprehension Video
  2. Reading Comprehension:Long Passages Video
  3. Verbal Analogy & Vocabulary Video
  4. Vocabulary : Word Families & Confusable Words Video
  5. Vocabulary: word origins and confusable words Video

week-05

  1. Vocabulary: Text Completion - Part 1 Video
  2. Vocabulary: Text Completion - Part 2 Video
  3. Vocabulary: Text Completion - Part 3 Video
  4. Vocabulary: Synonyms, Meanings and Confusable Words Video
  5. Text Completion Video

week-06

  1. Text Completion Contd. Video
  2. Analogy and Text Completion Video
  3. Text Completion Contd Video
  4. Text Completion - Part 4 Video

week-07

  1. Names and Vocabulary Video
  2. Latin Terms in English Vocabulary Video
  3. Greek Mythology and Vocabulary Video
  4. Greek Names and Foreign Words Video
  5. Vocabulary Practice Test Video

week-08

  1. Analogy: Video
  2. Foreign Words and Names Video
  3. Suffixes and Reference Words Video
  4. Uncommon Words - Part 1 Video

week-09

  1. Uncommon Words - 2 Video
  2. More Uncommon Words Video
  3. More Uncommon Words (Contd.) Video
  4. Vocabulary and Analogy Video
  5. Vocabulary: Mixed Bag Video

week-10

  1. Subject-Verb Agreement and Sentence Correction Video
  2. Sentence Correction Video
  3. Conditional Clauses, Prepositions and Reported Speech Video
  4. Clauses Video
  5. Modifiers, Active Voice and Passive Voice Video
  6. Gerunds and Infinitives Video

week-11

  1. Coordinators and Conjunctions - Part 1 Video
  2. Coordinators and Conjunctions - Part 2 Video
  3. Grammar: Words & Expressions Video
  4. Grammar: Phrasal Verbs Video

week-12

  1. Revision - Vocabulary Video
  2. Revision - Subject verb agreement Video
  3. Read and Revise Video
  4. Idioms and collocations Video

Live Session

  1. Live Session 24-07-2025 Video
  2. Live Session 14-08-2025 Video
  3. Live Session 02-09-2025 Video
  4. Live Session 05-02-2021 Video
  5. Live Session 05-03-2021 Video
  6. Live Session 09-04-2021 Video
  7. Live Session 29-02-2020 Video
  8. Live Session 29-02-2020 Video
  9. Live Session 05-02-2024 Video
  10. Live Session 19-03-2024 Video
  11. Live Session 10-04-2024 Video
  12. Live Session 07-02-2025 Video
  13. Live Session 04-03-2025 Video
  14. Live Session 01-04-2025 Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Madras
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. Aysha Viswamohan
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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