This course description outlines an Intensive English course with a focus on listening and speaking skills (45 contact hours) and reading, grammar, and writing skills (135 contact hours) over 12 units. The listening and speaking component covers topics like reflecting on listening, asking questions, clarifying meaning, and giving presentations. The reading, grammar, and writing component uses the Touchstone textbook and covers grammar structures, reading different types of texts, and writing tasks like emails, stories, and guides. The course aims to improve English communication skills over 12 weeks for a total of 180 contact hours.
This course description outlines an Intensive English course with a focus on listening and speaking skills (45 contact hours) and reading, grammar, and writing skills (135 contact hours) over 12 units. The listening and speaking component covers topics like reflecting on listening, asking questions, clarifying meaning, and giving presentations. The reading, grammar, and writing component uses the Touchstone textbook and covers grammar structures, reading different types of texts, and writing tasks like emails, stories, and guides. The course aims to improve English communication skills over 12 weeks for a total of 180 contact hours.
This course description outlines an Intensive English course with a focus on listening and speaking skills (45 contact hours) and reading, grammar, and writing skills (135 contact hours) over 12 units. The listening and speaking component covers topics like reflecting on listening, asking questions, clarifying meaning, and giving presentations. The reading, grammar, and writing component uses the Touchstone textbook and covers grammar structures, reading different types of texts, and writing tasks like emails, stories, and guides. The course aims to improve English communication skills over 12 weeks for a total of 180 contact hours.
This course description outlines an Intensive English course with a focus on listening and speaking skills (45 contact hours) and reading, grammar, and writing skills (135 contact hours) over 12 units. The listening and speaking component covers topics like reflecting on listening, asking questions, clarifying meaning, and giving presentations. The reading, grammar, and writing component uses the Touchstone textbook and covers grammar structures, reading different types of texts, and writing tasks like emails, stories, and guides. The course aims to improve English communication skills over 12 weeks for a total of 180 contact hours.
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Course Description of Intensive English (1): ENG 011
1. Topics to be covered Listening and Speaking (Open Forum-1)
No. of Weeks
Contact hours
Introduction
Unit 1 Listening skill focus: Reflecting on listening Speaking skill focus: Asking for help with vocabulary Unit 2 Listening skill focus: Activating background knowledge 1 Speaking skill focus: Reflecting on speaking Unit 3 Topic: Plants; bees Listening skill focus: Activating background knowledge 2 Speaking skill focus: Asking for clarification vocabulary Unit 4 Listening skill focus: Predicting Speaking skill focus: Taking time to think Unit 5 Listening skill focus: Listening for main ideas Speaking skill focus: Clarifying Unit 6 Listening skill focus: Working out unknown vocabulary Speaking skill focus: Asking for further information Unit 7 Listening skill focus: Identifying speculative language Speaking skill focus: Using expressions to show interest Unit 8 Listening skill focus: Listening for specific information Speaking skill focus: Elaborating Unit 9 Listening skill focus: Identifying sequencers Speaking skill focus: Saying percentages and fractions Unit 10 Listening skill focus: Summarizing Speaking skill focus: Giving presentations Unit 11 Listening skill focus: Listening for examples
Speaking skill focus: Giving opinions and
responding to opinions Unit 12 Listening skill focus: Identifying important points Speaking skill focus: Rephrasing to check understanding Revision
No. of Weeks
Contact hours
2 1 1
6 3 3
Revision 2. Course components (total contact hours per semester): 45 1. Topics to be covered Reading (Well Read-1) 1. Previewing & scanning in addition to understanding timelines 2. Scanning Tables 3. Skimming, previewing and scanning diagrams 4. Revision of Previewing, Scanning and Skimming Skills 5. Scanning Tables 6. Reviewing reading skills. 7. Supplementary Materials on the abovementioned reading skills 2. Course components (total contact hours per semester): 45 Grammar, Reading and Writing (Touchstone) Introduction
No. of
Contact hours
Weeks 1
12
Book 1: Unit 1: Grammar: Verb to be, Questions with what Reading: Reading different types of identification cards and documents Writing: Complete an application Book 1: Unit 2: Grammar: Verb be in statements/ yes-no questions; Articles a, an, and the; this and these; noun plurals; questions with where ... Reading: Identifying names of classroom objects Writing: Write questions about locations
Book 1: Unit 3: Grammar: Possessive adjectives; verb be in statements/ yesno questions. Reading: Reading a family tree Writing: Write questions about people Book 1: Unit 4: Grammar: Simple present statements. Reading: Scanning for specific information Writing: Write an e-mail message. Book 1: Unit 5: Grammar: Simple present information questions; frequency adverbs. Reading: Answering comprehension questions Writing: Write a message to a Web site about yourself. Book 1: Unit 6: Grammar: There's and there are; quantifiers adjectives before nouns; telling time; suggestions. Reading: Understanding classification Writing: Use prepositions for time and place: between, through, at, on, for, and from ... to ... Book 1: Unit 7: Grammar: Present: statements, yes-no questions, short answers, and information questions, Imperatives Reading: Organizing different ideas Writing: Write a short article giving advice about exercise; use imperatives to give advice. Book 1: Unit 8: Grammar: Like to, want to, need to, and have to; questions with How much ... Reading: Looking for specific words and information Writing: Write a recommendation for a shopper's guide; Link ideas with because to give reasons. Book 1: Unit 9: Grammar: Can and can't Reading: KWL strategy (know-want to know-learned)
Writing: Write a paragraph for a Web page for tourists;
use commas in lists. Book 1: Unit 10: Grammar: Simple past. Reading: Reading journal entries with comprehension Writing: Write a personal journal; Order events with before, after, when, and then. Book 1: Unit 11: Grammar: Simple past of be in statements, yes-no questions, and short answers; Simple past information questions. Reading: learning to reading letters from magazines Writing: Complete a funny story; Use punctuation to show direct quotations or speech. Book 1: Unit 12: Grammar: Countable and uncountable nouns; How much? and How many . Reading: Reading guides (e.g. restaurant guide) Writing: Use adjectives to describe restaurants. Book 2: Unit 1: Grammar: Review of simple present and present of be; Responses with too and either Reading: Assessment of the reading passage (opinions) Writing: Write an article giving advice on how to improve something; review of punctuation. Book 2: Unit 2: Grammar: Verb forms after: can / can't, love, like, etc.; and prepositions; Object pronouns; Everybody, everyone, nobody, and no one Reading: Matching and identification of information in the reading passage Writing: Write an e-mail message to one of the hobby groups on the Web page; Link ideas with and, also, especially, or, but, and because Book 2: Unit 3:
Grammar: Simple present and present continuous;
Joining clauses with if and when. Reading: KWL strategy (know-want to know-learned) Writing: Write a question asking advice about a health problem. Book 2: Unit 4: Grammar: Future with going to; indirect objects; indirect
12
object pronouns; present continuous.
Reading: Scanning the reading passage
for specific
information Writing: Write an invitation to a special event. Book 2: Unit 5: Grammar: Review of simple past ; be born; general and specific use of determiners. Reading: Skimming for general ideas and adding new ideas to them Writing: Write interview questions to ask a classmate and reply to these questions. Book 2: Unit 6: Grammar: Is there? and Are there? , Pronouns one and some; Offers and requests with Can and Could Reading: Reading and understanding directions Pages from a walking-tour guide Writing: Write a guide for a walking tour of your city Revision 2. Course components ( Total contact hours per semester) : Grand Total of contact hours:
