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Technical English

Single word substitutes 

 

1.A name and opted by a writer 



 

 

 



 

 = Pseudonym 

2. 

Of 


unknown 

authorship 

 

     = 


anonymous 

3. 


Taking 

one’s 


own 

life 


 

     = 


suicide 

4. A person concerned with practical results   

 

 

= pragmatist 



5. Animals living on land and in water  

 

 



 

= Amphibians 

6.A person who is made to bear the blame due to others  

 

= Scapegoat 



7.A person who derives pleasure by inflicting pain on others  

= Sadist 




8.A wishful longing for something one has known in the past  

= Nostalgia 

9.A person who believes in God 

 

 



 

 

= Theist 



10.A person who does not believe in God    

 

 



= Atheist 

11.Using 

of 

new 


words 

 

     = 



Coinage 

12.One copies the writing of others  

    = 

Plagiarist 



(Plagiarism) 

13.Journey to a holy place  

 

 

 



 

 

= Pilgrimage 



14.One 

knowing 


everything 

     = 


Omniscient 

15.One who is present everywhere   

 

 

 



= Omnipresent 

16.Equal 

in 

rank, 


merit 

or 


quality 

 

    = 



Peer 

17.Printed notice of Somebody’s death  

 

 

 



= Obituary 

18. One who can speak two languages 

 

 

 



= Bilingual 

19. One who thinks only of welfare of women  

 

 

=Feminist. 



20.Study of the relation of living things to environment    

 = Ecology 



Abbreviations and Acronyms 

A or amp  

 

ampere  


a.m.  

 

ante meridiem, before noon  

atm 

  standard 



atmosphere 

 

Ave. 



  avenue 

B.A. 


  Bachelor 

of 


Arts 

 

BASIC  



 

BASIC computer language  

Blvd. 

 

  boulevard 



BP 

 

  boiling 



point 

 

B.S. 



  Bachelor 

of 


Science 

 

Btu  



 

 

British thermal unit  



°C 

 

  degrees 



Celsius 

 

cd 



  candela 

 

CDC 



 

  Centers 

for 

Disease 


Control 

 

CFR    



 

Code of Federal Regulations  

CIA    

 

Central Intelligence Agency  



cm 

 

  centimeter 




COBOL  

 

COBOL computer language  



Corp. 

  corporation 

 

  darcy 



DEP    

 

Department of Environmental Protection  



DOD 

 

  Department 



of 

Defense 


DOT 

 

  Department 



of 

Transportation 

 

engg. 


 

  engineering 

engr. 

  engineer 



e.g.  

 

exempli gratia, for example  

EPA    

 

Environmental Protection Agency  



°F 

 

  degrees 



Fahrenheit 

 

FBI 



 

  Federal 

Bureau of Investigation  

FCC    


 

Federal Communications Commission  

FDA    

 

Food and Drug Administration  



fig. 

 

  figure 



FORTRAN    

FORTRAN computer language  

ft 

  foot 


 

gal. 


 

  gallon 

ha 

  hectare 



 

  hour 



HP 

horsepower 

 

HTML  


 

hypertext markup language  

Hz 

 

  hertz 



 

i.e. 


  that 

is 


 

in 


  inch 

 

Inc. 



  incorporated 

 



  Kelvin 

 

kg 



  kilogram 

 

kW 



  kilowatt 

 

kWh 



  kilowatt-hour 

 

l or L   



 

liter 


LAFTA  

 

Latin American Free Trade Association  




lb 

  pound 


 

  meter 



 

MHz 


   

megahertz 

 

min. 


 

  minute 

mol 

  mole 


 

M.S. 


  Master 

of 


Science 

 

NASA 



 

  National 

Aeronautics and Space Administration  

neg 


  negative 

 

NIH    



 

National Institutes of Health  

NIOSH  

 

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health  



NM    

 

nautical mile  



NOAA  

 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  



NSF 

 

  National 



Science 

Foundation 

 

OPEC 


 

  Organization 

of 

Petroleum Exporting Countries  



OSHA 

 

  Occupational 



Safety and Health Administration  

p. 


 

  page 


 

Pascal 


 

  Pascal 

computer 

language 

 

Ph.D. 


  Doctor 

of 


Philosophy 

 

p.m.  



 

post meridiem, after noon  

pos 


  positive 

 

pp. 



  pages 

pt. 


 

  pint 


qt. 

 

  quart 



radar   

 

radio detecting and ranging  



RPM    

 

revolutions per minute  



scuba 

  self-contained 

underwater 

breathing 

apparatus 

 

sec. or s  



 

second  


sq 

  square 

 

STP    


 

standard temperature and pressure  

temp 

  temperature 



 

Univ. 


  university 


URL   

 

 uniform resource locator  



USGS   

 

 United States Geological Survey  



vol. 

  volume 

 

PART B 

 ESSAY WRITING 

1.  Write in about 200 words the reasons for environmental degradation and list three ways 

by which our environment can be conserved? 

2.  Write in about 200 words the necessity for training in modern organizations? 

3.  English can very well be a universal medium of communication. Justify the statement in 

about 200 words. 

4.  With more and more vehicles on the road, it is becoming very risky for all vehicles that 

ply on the roads safely. Write in about 200 words, the measures that must be adopted in 

order to bring safety on the roads. 

5.  Write in about 200 words an essay on Technology: Boon or Bane? 

6.  Write an essay on Space Tourism? 

7.  Write an essay on Reducing child labour through Technology? 

8.  Write a paragraph about an initiative taken in your institution that helped protect your 

immediate environment? 

9.  What are the practices followed by yours grand parents to preserve their surroundings, 

Which are now forgotten? Write an essay in 250 words on why and how these practices 

should be revived? 

10. Discuss in two paragraphs of 250 words each on how tourist destinations have been 

adversely affected by tourism and about what can be done to restore them?  

Interpreting visual materials 

1.  Study the pie chart of various expenditures for publishing a book and interpret it 

 



2.  Study the following pie chart of Data of different states regarding population of 

states in the year 1998 and interpret it  

 

T



l

l i


f h

i

S



3276000

3.  The bar graph given below shows the data of the production of paper (in lakh 



tonnes) by three different companies X, Y and Z over the years. 

Production of Paper (in lakh tonnes) by Three Companies X, Y and Z over the Years. 

 

States 


Sex and Literacy wise Population Ratio 

Sex Literacy 

M F 

Literate 



Illiterate 

A.P 5 




M.P 3 



Delhi 2 




Goa 3 



Bihar 3 




U.P. 3 



T.N. 3 





4.  The bar graph given below shows the percentage distribution of the total 

expenditures of a company under various expense heads during 2003. 

Percentage Distribution of Total Expenditure of a company

 

 

PART - B 



Email writing 

1.  Compose a reply mail for your brother who has shared a poem that he has written on his 

own? 

2.  Compose a reply mail appreciating your grandmother’s experience on her 



pilgrimage(after seeing the photographs) 

3.  Compose a reply mail for your friend who has the new tag.”There is no ctrl z in my life”, 

in his face book. 

 

Dialogue writing  

1 Write a conversation between two friends meeting after ten years 

2. Write a conversation   between two RJ’S.  

3. Write a conversation   between two cartoon characters 

4 Write a conversation   between two police 

5 Write a conversation   between two students without license 

 

CREATIVE WRITING 



1.  If you have a chance to choose your next birth, what would you choose?   

2.  If tomorrow has to be a special day, having you as a celebrity. Who would you be? 

Why? 

3.  If you were the parent of your parents? 



4.  If you had a chance to change three things in life? What would they be? 

5.  If you need to invent something new. What would it be? 




 

Direct and Indirect Speech (Reported Speech) 

Rewrite the following sentences in the reported speech. 

1.  The chairman said,” your company has done very well this year, and the profit before tax has 

risen from last year’s Rs.80 lakhs to 120 lakhs this year’. 

2.  The President said, “The unions have taken a hostile stand this year and production has been 

hit by repeated strikes”. 

3.   The Manager said, “The export projects have been the main cause for the drain on our                         

funds.” 


4. The Project Head said, “The Company has been forced to resort to heavy borrowing during the 

year, and the rates of interest are very high”. 

5. The Director said, “The unit to be started in Mysore will be able to benefit from several 

incentives and backward-area concessions offered by the Karnataka Government”. 

6. The Managing Director said, “The customs officials have not extended the 

concessions available for imported components to us”. 

7. Chairperson: “I have great pleasure in welcoming you, the shareholders of the 

company, to this annual general meeting”. 

8. Officer: “During the year that ended on 31

st

 March 2002, you company’s performance 



was satisfactory, though it failed to rise to our collective expectations”. 

9. Chairperson: “A number of adverse factors in combination worked to the detriment of 

the company”. 

10. Paterson got out the car and said to the man,” I am very sorry. I did not see you; I 

was lost in the beauty of the place”. 

 

Poster Making 

1.  Create a poster with the concept ‘Engineers- the leaders’. 

2.  Create a poster with the concept English- the wings of excellent 



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