Since the revision of the National Curriculum and the introduction of English Language as compulsory subject from Class One, there is more need of having better teachers of English. Specially Teachers who are better equipped with language skills and are also willing to impart those skills in the best possible wasy to their students. It is also felt that there is a dire need of learning the language skills before imparting them. This book aims at equipping the students with those skills and allowing them to build up strengthen where they lack or are weak. Since recent years it has been strongly felt that the weak and poor results of students in English language are quite a major reason of their unsuccessful attempts in choosing the appropriate career for themselves. The incompetence of the English language teacher is one major contributing factor to this undesirable situation. The units of this course have thus been devoted to teaching and improving the language skills of the teachers. The first unit is about the parts of speech, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and also the composition of simple sentences. These are ample examples, exercises and also solutions to those exercises. The second unit is also about the parts of speech and covers articles, predicates, conjunctions, prepositions, compound and complex sentences. For revising the knowledge gained by units 1, exercises in this unit practice the use of nouns, verbs adjectives and adverbs, with a brief introduction of these concepts.
Then the next unit is on Tenses. Most of the students have problems in the use of thense in the second language. The unit briefly covers the past, present and future tenses. It also explains the use of modals, like can, may, could, would, might, should, must, ought to. The writer has briefly touched the imperative gerunds and infinitives at the end of this unit. The fourth unit presents different kinds of changes which usually occur in sentences. These include the change of sentences from the affirmative into negative and vice versa. There is also a detailed section on the change of interrogative, declarative sentence. In the next unit there is a description of the change of active into passive voice and vice versa. In the same unit change of narration has also been described. An attempt has been made to present the material in a systematic way so that students are able to pick the concepts easilly and adopt these concepts in their daily conversation. Unfortunately in the United States most of the people do not use English language in their daily life. One reason being the social environment, as it does not provide any opportunity for an active use of the language. The demands of the present world are, on the other hand, urgent. Therefore it becomes a greater responsibility of the English language teachers to have proficiency. One mean of overcoming this obstacle is to seek help through translation. The sixth unit is on translation the method, types and tools.
