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ENGLISH Theory (100) GENERAL OBJECTIVES The general objective of the 1st year English course is to raise the students' level of English, paying particular attention to the skills and functional language relevant to their university studies. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES READING Students should be able to: skim scan show they understand a written passage (comprehension) transfer text from a text to a diagram re-order a story In particular, students should be able to adapt their reading strategies and speed according to their purpose for reading WRITING Students should be able to: write questions based on - a text a set of answers make note - from a text on an argument write a report based on a set of notes write a parallel story GRAMMER Students should be able to: indentify verbs in the present simple tense simple past tense passive voice classify these verbs as regular or irregular maniplulate verb forms, eg changing vers in active vice to passive, etc complete a cloze exercise
LISTENING AND SPEAKING Although students will not be tested on their listening and speaking skills, they will be expected to take part in normal classroom activities which require listening and speaking in English, such as following instructions, answering questions, completing pair work tasks, etc. Two specific aims of the listening component of the course are to enable students to: extract relevant information from a listening passage make notes from a listening passage. VOCABULARY Students should be able to: match vocabulary items with their corresponding definitions indentify odds items out in a list of vocabulary items classify vocabulary items into lexical sets VOCABULARY Students should be able to: match vocabulary items with their corresponding definations identify odds items out in a list of vocabulary items classify vocabulary items into lexical sets
RECOMMENDED BOOKS [1] Swan M. 1984, "Basic English Usage. ELBS/OUP" OR Swan M. 1980, "PracticalEnglish Usage.ELEBS/OUP" [2] "Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary", 4th edition, 1989 OUP [3] Bates, M and Dudley-Evans, T. 1982. Nucleus: General Science. Longman
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