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Part A: Employability Skills Unit 1 – Communication Skills Introduction to Communication What is communication? Sharing of information from one person to other by speaking, writing, signals or by any other means is called communication. Communication Process (Cycle) or Elements of Communication • Sender: the person who is starting the communication • Message: the information that the sender wants to send * Encoding: The way the sender wants the message to be looked like. • Channel: From which medium the message travels. • Receiver: the person who receives the message • Decoding: What the receiver understands • Feedback: the receiver's response to the message. Perspectives in communication Perspectives are fixed ideas and thoughts regarding something. For Example, you have fixed the thought that your school principal is very strict so you will not be able to talk to him friendly. You always think that he is very strict. Factors affecting perspectives in communication Here are some factors which affect perspectives. Language: The language is used in communication Visual Perception: how the person looks Past Experience: Your past experience which him Prejudice: some fixed idea about the person Feelings: How are you feeling at that time Environment: the environmental condition during communication Personal factors: Personally how are you attached to him Culture: Your culture and his culture are also a factor
Practice: Practice in front of a mirror helps to overcome the fear of the audience. Perform: Then perform in the form of people. Take a long breath. This will help you when you are nervous. Non-Verbal Communication Non-verbal communication is the way of expressing ourselves without using words. We can send many messages without using words, for example, can send a message through expression, eye contact, touch etc. More examples are given below Importance of non-verbal communication In our daily life, we see that most of the communication is non-verbal. Many times we express ourselves just by using our eye contact or by hand movements. So we can say that non-verbal communication is very important in our life. Visual communication This is also a very important type of communication. Sending a message through images is very popular as you can see many advertisements on the roadside and signboards all these contain much information but in form of images. It is not bounded to any language anyone can understand what is being expressed in the image. Writing Skills: Parts of Speech From these sessions, you are going to study those topics which come in the English language. All these topics are not relevant to the Employability skills Class 9 examination. So we will discuss only some important concepts. There are 8 Parts of Speech Noun: Words for people, place and things Pronoun: Words used in place of Noun Adjective: Word used to describe Noun or Pronoun. Verb: Doing words
Adverb: Words used to describe verbs. Ex-fast, Slow Preposition: Used before Noun or Pronoun to show its position. Ex- on, in, at Conjunction: Used to join words or groups of words. Ex- Because, and Interjection: It shows Emotion. Ex- Alas, Hurrah Writing Skills: Sentences Types of sentences Active and passive sentences. Example: ● Rahul plays cricket. ● Cricket is played by Rahul. Types of sentences (according to their purpose) Pronunciation Basics Correct pronunciation of words is very important to communicate well. By Listening to correct speeches and practicing more and more you can achieve good pronunciation of words. Different Sounds in English Vowels: There are 5 vowels in the English language like a, e, i, o, u Consonants: A total of 21 Consonants are there. Diphthongs: Combination of two vowel sounds like ou, ea Greetings and Introductions Types of greetings Formal greetings: It is used when you don't know the person or to greet elderly people. Informal greetings: It is used to greet friends, family or a person known to you. Talking about Self Talking about yourself means introducing yourself. While introducing yourself keep it concise and tell some basic things like name, age, address, likes, dislikes.