PEL101- COMMUNICATION

SKILLS-I

LECTURE-10
WEEK-5
DESIGNED BY
Ruchika Verma, 13422
Learning…

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eating young cookies mother's tree the
under fresh-baked his sat a fellow
JUMBLED SENTENCES
• The young fellow sat under a tree, eating
his mother’s fresh-baked cookies.
 What are they?
• Words mixed up in a confused manner
• Comprehending the meaning is not easy
• Rephrasing/ restructuring required
 How to rearrange the jumbled
sentences?
• Formula #1
When solving jumbled sentences or
"Sequence of Words" type questions, first
determine the "Subject" and the
“Object".
 Example
/that / lived in / halls / I dreamt / I / marble
• Identify the subject.
I/ I
• Identify the object.
Halls.
• Formula #2
Determine the “Verb" or “Action” of the
sentence.
Example
/that / lived in / halls / I dreamt / I / marble
• Identify the verb.
Dreamt/ Lived in
 What we get after these two
steps?
I dreamt I lived in halls.

• Still the connect in the sentence is

missing, then…
• Formula #3
Determine the part of speech of the words
left and place them accordingly in the
sentence.
that –conjunction
marble -adjective
 The meaningful sentence…
I dreamt that I lived in marble halls.
 Let’s work them out…
• I'm/ glasses./ my/ looking/ for/
• Are/ you/ What/ kind of/ reading?/ Book/
• Studying/ at/ economics/ University./ is/
Paul/ National/ Kharkov/
• Is/ working/ moment./ the/ Saudi/ Jack/ at/
Arabia/ in/
• Working/ for/ as/ same/ the/ you?/
company/ Is/ Jennifer/
• That/ Are /Achievements/Those /Others /
The Greatest /Benefit/
• Is/ Is/ The/ Shining/ The/ To/ The Roof/
Time/Repair /Sun/ When/
• In/Of/ Lies/ Middle/ Difficulty/ Opportunity/
The/
• Is/ To/ Antidote/The/Suffering/ Mental/
Only/ Physical Pain/
• Himself/ Hoists/ Narcissist (selfish)/ Who/
A/ Someone/ A/Onto/ Pedestal/Is/
• Danger/ Only/ Short/ Letter/One/
Is/Of/Anger/
• Can/ Indispensable (essential )/ Folks/
That/ Look/ So /They/ Seem/ Doing/
Some/ Nothing /Busy/
• Come/ All/ If/ Them/ Our/ Have/
Courage/True/ Dreams/ Pursue/ The/ Can/
We/ To/
• Day/ Work/ Choose/Will/ Love/ Never/ Job/
And/ You/ A/ To/ Your/ Life/ You/
In/Have/A/
• Up/ Put/ The/ Want/ To/ With/ The/
Rainbow/ Got/ If/ You've/ You/ Rain/
• You/ Go/ To/ To/ It/ Success/ You/ Come/
Doesn't/
• Fails/ The/ Else/ When/ Read/ Instructions/
All/
• They/ And/ Some/ They/ Think/ Ruler/
Are/Inch/ A/ Give/ People/ An/
• Difficult/ Things/ All/Easy Before/ They/
Are/ Are/
• With/ The/Memory/ Diary/ Is/ Us/We/ All/
About/ Carry/
• Knows/ You're/ Being/ Only/ Afraid/ Who/
Is/ Bravery/ The/ One/
• Attempt /To/ In/ What/ Proportion/
Accomplish/ We/ We/
• And/ Suffering/ Pain/ Is/ Is/ Inevitable/ But/
Misery/ Optional/
• And/ Some/ Permanently/ Mixed/ All/
Up/Like/ Concrete/ Are/ Set/ Minds/
Answers
• I'm looking for my glasses.
• What kind of book are you reading?
• Paul Kharkov is studying Economics at
National University.
• Jack is working in Saudi Arabia at the
moment.
• Is Jennifer working for the same company
as you?
• The greatest achievements are those that
benefit others.
• The time to repair the roof is when the sun
is shining.
• In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
• The only antidote to mental
suffering is physical pain.
• Someone who hoists himself onto a
pedestal is a narcissist.
• Anger is Only One Letter Short of Danger.
• Some folks can look so busy doing
nothing that they seem indispensable.
• All our dreams can come true, if we
have the courage to pursue them.
• Choose a job you love, and you will never
have to work a day in your life.
• If you want the rainbow, you've got to put
up with the rain.
• Success Doesn't Come To You, You Go
To It.
• When All Else Fails, Read The
Instructions.
• Give some people an inch‚ and they think
they are rulers.
• All things are difficult before they are easy.
• Memory is the diary we all carry about with
us.
• Bravery is being the only one who knows
you're afraid.
• We Accomplish in proportion to what we
attempt.
• Pain and suffering Is Inevitable but Misery
Is Optional.
• Some minds are like concrete, all mixed
up and permanently set.
 Some more…
1. first makes (a)/ The doctor (b)/ of an
illness (c)/ a diagnosis (d).
2. she decides (a)/ treatment is needed (b)/
what kind of (c)/ Then he or (d).
3. treated with a (a)/ can be (b)/ Many
illnesses (c)/ course of drug (d).
4. is serious (a)/ may operate (b)/ The
doctor (c)/ if the case (d).
5. Post-operative (a)/ for quick recovery (b)/
care is important (c)/ of a patient (d).
6. many miles (a)/ Bees fly (b)/ of nectar (c)/
in search (d).
7. Unlike human (a)/ do not (b)/
have maps (c)/ travellers animals (d).
8. navigate by (a) / different clues (b)/
Instead they (c)/ using many (d).
9. They also (a)/ a compass (b)/ and stars
as (c)/ use the sun (d).
10. Tigers and (a)/ miles in search (b)/
known to travel (c)/ of water (d)/ lions
are (e).
11. an important (a)/ society, country (b)/
Sports are (c)/ and individual (d)/ part of
every (e).
12. Sports are (a)/ the growth of (b)/
necessary for (c)/ the body (d).
13. Fresh (a)/ the body (b)/ They keep (c)/ fit
and (d).
14. They give (a)/ the total (b)/ exercise to
(c)/ body (d).
15. not only in (a)/ Sports help (b)/ body but
(c)/ developing a child’s (d)/ also his
mind (e).
Answers
1. badc 10. aecbd
2. dacb 11. caebd
3. cbad 12. acbd
4. cbda 13. cbda
5. acbd 14. acbd
6. badc 15. badce
7. adbc
8. cadb
9. adcb
A. The managers are themselves parts of various
hierarchies of managerial influence, coupled to one another
by explicit and implicit codes of behaviour and information
network.
B. Management science and MIS have introduced new
elements of complexity into the manager’s world.
C. Management deals with complex social systems joined
by physical and informational mechanisms to other social
systems that are the responsibility of other managers.
D. If this seems to make the social system appear complex,
it is so intended.
• (1) DCAB
• (2) ADCB (Logical pairs)
• (3) DBAC
• (4). CADB
 What are parajumbles or
paragraph anagrams?

They are the paragraphs that are

jumbled and need to be rearranged
to make sense out of them.
But how…

?
• Formula #1
Avoid reading the sentences closely; that
is not required and is a waste of time.
Inspect the choices; if each of the choices
begins with different letters, identifying the
sentence to begin the sequence leads to
the correct answer.
Example: (Static Para jumbles- opening and closing statements
are given)
1.Small companies that compete effectively tend to grow, and growth
brings increasing complexity and specialization in each function.
A. Technologists talk about processes, new materials, and worry
about prototype results and technical problems; as regards
language and interests, they have little in common with marketing.
B.As the company grows it tends increasingly to fragment into
separate functional islands, each trying to solve its own problems,
each using its own special language and having its own priorities.
C. Marketing people, for instance, talk about market segmentation,
market growth, promotions and product image, and worry about
changes in share.
D. Production people talk and worry about industrial relations,
people arriving on time, and plant and equipment breakdown and
delays.
6.They in their turn have little in common with either marketing or
the technologists who, they consider, live in ivory towers.
1. DACB 2. BCAD 3. ACBD 4. CDAB
• Formula #2
In choices that are closely related, identify
a mandatory pair of sentences (two
sentences that should form a sequence).
Example
A.This linking of politics and music is of course ancient and even
Aristotle in his book ‘Politics’ said, “We may compare the best form of
government to the most harmonious piece of music.”
B.Mixing metaphors, Mr. Clinton referred to the symphony so central to
western music and said, “It is time both nations heard the musical
compositions of each other and understood each other better.”
C.The oligarchic and despotic to the more violent tunes; and the
democratic to the soft and gentler airs.
D.The US President was confident that if governments and people of
the two democracies made a determined bid to understand each
other’s perspectives scripts, they could create new symphonies.
E.Such attempts to secure symphony would be so much better than the
individual bids for virtuoso improvisations and adherence to classical
compositions.
1. BACDE 2. DCAEB 3. DECAB 4.. BDEAC
• Formula #3
Look out for quick clues such as pronouns,
conjunctions etc. in the beginning of
sentences to help you establish a
sequence.
Example
1.As a senior economist associated with the reforms programme used
to say, a sure indication that the new economic policy was succeeding
would be when foreign investors start trekking to Delhi in the sweltering
heat of May and June.
A. If nothing else, India Power ‘94 came as a welcome break to the
power ministry; most of the participants had complimentary things to
say about government policy.
B. And there were would-be entrants like the Hong Kong-based China
Light and Power Company who had turned up armed with a fax from
the power ministry listing available projects in India.
C. Were that the only yardstick, then judging by the attendance at India
Power ‘94, at least the reforms in the power sector could be declared a
success.
D. There were the familiar names – Enron, AES, Cogentrix, and
Spectrum Technologies.
6.This was in striking contrast to the adverse comments the ministry
had been attracting so far.
1. ADBC 2. BDCA 3..CDBA 4. DBCA
• Formula #4
In six sentences variety, work backward
from sentence 6 if there is no obvious clue
to work from sentence 1; many a time we
overlook the hints that may be valuable
Example
1.A recent advertisement of Premier Instruments and Controls Ltd., a
leading manufacturer of dashboard instruments, in a financial daily,
summed it all up.
A. The fact is that executives from companies, ranging from Daimler
Benz to General Motors, have been scouring the Indian countryside
looking for suppliers of cheap components for products made in their
European and American plants.
B. It obviously does not even have the time to make the investments
required to set up a new plant.
C. Today, most Indian automobile component manufactures cannot
produce enough to meet demand both domestic and international.
D. The company was soliciting spare capacities for the supply of
intricate machines and sheet-metal components.
6.While some of them do find good deals, many have had to go back
empty-handed.
1. ADCB 2. CBAD 3.BACD 4.. DBCA
 Let’s try some more…
A. He was carrying his jacket and walked
with his head thrown back.
B. As Anette neared the lamp she saw a
figure walking slowly.
C. For a while Michael walked on and she
followed twenty paces behind.
D. With a mixture of terror and triumph of
recognition she slackened her pace.
1. ABCD 2. BADC
3. BCDA 4. ACBD
A. However, the real challenge today is in
unlearning, which is much harder.
B. But the new world of business behaves
differently from the world in which we
grew up.
C. Learning is important for both people and
organisations.
D. Each of us has a mental model that we
have used over the years to make sense.
1. CADB 2. BDAC
3. CDAB 4. ACBD
A. There was nothing quite like a heavy
downpour of rain to make life worthwhile.
B. We reached the field, soaked to the skin,
and surrounded it.
C. The wet, as far as he was concerned,
was ideal.
D. There, sure enough, stood Claudius,
looking like a debauched Roman
emperor under a shower.
1. DCBA 2. ABDC
3. BADC 4. BACD
1. Whenever technology has flowered, it has put man’s
language-developing skills into overdrive.
A. Technical and technoid terms are spilling into the
mainstream almost as fast as junk-mail is slapped into e-
mail boxes.
B. The era of computers is no less.
C. From the wheel with its axle to the spinning wheel with its
bobbins, to the compact disc and its jewel-box, inventions
have trailed new words in their wake.
D. “Cyberslang is huge, but it’s parochial, and we don’t know
what will filter into the larger culture” said Tom Dalzell, who
wrote the slang dictionary Flappers 2 Rappers.
6. Some slangs already have a pedigree.
1. BCAD 2. CBAD
3. ABCD 4. DBCA
1. Until the MBA arrived on the scene the IIT graduate was king.
A. A degree from one of the five IITs was a passport to a well-
paying job, great prospects abroad and, for some, a decent
dowry to boot.
B. From the day he or she cracked the joint entrance exam, the IIT
student commanded the awe of neighbours and close relatives.
C. IIT students had, meanwhile, also developed their own
special culture, complete with lingo and attitude, which they
passed down.
D. True, the success stories of IIT graduates are legion and
they now constitute the cream of the Indian diaspora.
6. But not many alumni would agree that the IIT undergraduate
mindset merits a serious psychological study, let alone an
interactive one.
1. BACD 2. ABCD 3. DCBA
4. BADC
Answers
1. (2)
2. (1)
3. (2)
4. (2)
5. (1)