English Courses
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The course is designed to equip students with an elementary foundation in the basics of both reading and writing. The reading part of the course will help students become familiar with a variety of reading techniques such as skimming, scanning and guesswork. In the writing element of the course, students will become familiar with basic English sentence structures and linkers that will give them the foundation required to progress to the next level. |
ENGL001 |
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The course is designed to equip students with an elementary foundation in the basics of both listening and speaking skills. The listening part of the course will help students become familiar with as variety of listening techniques such as listening for specific and general detail. In the speaking element of the course, students will become familiar with a variety of speaking strategies such as presentation skills and applying communication activities with real conversation activities that will give them the foundation required to progress to the next level. |
ENGL002 |
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The course is designed to equip students with a solid elementary foundation in the basic grammar needed at A1 level. The course will use a variety of grammar structures such as Simple Present, be + adjective, Prepositions of Place, Demonstratives, Adverbs of Frequency, Imperatives, Present Continuous, and Can (for ability). Learned grammatical structures will be employed in a variety of communicative activities in various settings to give students the foundation required to progress to the next level. |
ENGL003 |
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The course is designed to equip students with an elementary foundation in vocabulary found in everyday themes. The course will challenge students’ comprehension of learned lexical items using a variety of integrated skills such as writing and speaking. |
ENGL004 |
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In this course, students will develop effective oral communication skills through a variety of general academic situations such as lectures, interviews, and reports. Through guidance and extensive listening practice, the course focuses on getting main ideas, listening for specific detail, and note-taking skills. Speaking activities are linked to listening themes and as such students use current and developing vocabulary resources to discuss listening content and expand them. Students are encouraged to critically think and evaluate different viewpoints and express their own. The course will emphasize fluency but also focus on appropriate accuracy through practice activities on pronunciation, different intonation patterns, and word and sentence stress placement. |
ENGL111 |
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This course will provide students with formal rules of language and both controlled and communicative practice of these rules. Students will learn to use new structures in a variety of contexts in order to internalize and master them. At this level, students will be building on a foundation of basic grammar to become familiar with increasingly complicated grammar structures. |
ENGL112 |
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This course integrates reading and writing together in an attempt to provide exposure to texts in order to facilitate a transition to writing. The course provides instruction and practice on reading strategies like scanning, skimming, guessing word meaning from context, paraphrasing, and summarizing. It also focuses on recognition of main ideas, and supporting details. The writing section of the course attempts to develop writing accurate, concise, and well-connected paragraphs, and reports. Concepts of writing processes like brainstorming, planning, drafting and revising are introduced and practiced. Students practice writing topic sentences that introduce a paragraph, controlling ideas that limit its scope, supporting sentences, and further details that expand a given topic. Writing instruction also focuses on paragraph coherence and cohesion. |
ENGL113 |
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Following on from Oral Communication Skills1, students will use their vocabulary resources, syntactic knowledge and idiomatic expressions developed to support students in functioning confidently in more challenging academic content. In this second level, there will be a greater focus on effective listening and speaking strategies in using English in extended academic lectures, talks, reports, and radio programs. The importance of non-verbal, verbal communication and intercultural communication will be emphasised in one-to-one, small group and large group communication settings. Practice activities on pronunciation, intonation patterns, and stress placement at the phrase/sentence level and above will be a feature of this course. Suitable appropriate authentic resources and materials – in both e-learning and paper format – will be used to support trainees in taking responsibility for their own learning. |
ENGL121 |
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This course will cover each of the four skills tested in the IELTS test: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Using a textbook, classroom activities, and practice tests, students will be exposed to a variety of strategies for improving their IELTS score and will become familiar with the format and design of the exam. A variety of test-taking skills will be taught and practiced. |
ENGL122 |
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This course focuses on the development of critical reading skills and academic writing. Students will develop reading and writing skills with clearly defined learning outcomes within a critical thinking framework. Students will develop their reading sub-skills using a variety of text types, previewing, predicting, skimming, scanning, reading for specific information and inferring meaning from context. Writing is developed by looking at essay structure and content, building students skills resources. Suitable appropriate resources and materials – in both e-learning and paper format – will be used to support students in taking responsibility for their own learning. |
ENGL123 |