Advanced English Course
Advanced English Course (Programme Code: AEC)
Course Pre-requisite: Placement Test score corresponding to Intermediate proficiency level. Course Description: The course intends to build and further develop language proficiency. It is a six-weeks course with 07 to 08 hours of instruction each weeks.Mode: Zoom/Team
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Course Goals:
The course aims to achieve the following goals:
- Helping learners to achieve an overall English language proficiency
- Developing conversational skills, expressing ideas, and helping learners deal with problems and situations where they meet unpredictable language.
- Read and understand the main ideas of a variety of texts. (READING)
- Understand the main points and straightforward factual details on a range of familiar matters given in clear and relatively slow speech. (LISTENING COMPREHENSION)
- Discuss, converse, and express personal opinions and exchange information on familiar topics. (SPEAKING)
- Produce short connected texts divided into paragraphs on familiar topics using appropriate vocabulary in an adequately developed response. (WRITING)
- Demonstrate control of a limited range of vocabulary and grammatical structures with minor inconsistencies. (USE OF ENGLISH)
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Key Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the students will be able to:
Speaking
- Describe plans and arrangements, habits and routines, past activities, and personal experiences
- Participate in short conversations in routine contexts on topics of interest
- Give or seek personal views and opinions in discussing topics of interest
- Ask and answer questions about habits and routines, pastimes, and past activities
Listening
- Understand the main points of clear standard speech on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure etc., including short narratives
- Understand enough to be able to meet needs of a concrete type provided speech is clearly and slowly articulated
- Generally, follow the main points of extended discussion around him/her, provided speech is clearly articulated in standard dialect
- Understand the main points of radio news bulletins and simpler recorded material about familiar subjects delivered relatively slowly and clearly
Reading
- Read straightforward factual texts on subjects related to his/her field and interest with a satisfactory level of comprehension.
- Find and understand information in basic types of standard routine letters and documents (enquiries, orders, letters of confirmation, brochures and short official documents etc.) on familiar topics.
Writing
- Write about everyday aspects of his/her environment, events, past activities, and personal experiences (e.g., people, places, a job or study experience) in linked sentences
- Write personal letters describing experiences feelings and events in some detail
Use of English Grammar and Vocabulary
- Use a wide range of vocabulary including vocabulary to describe events, sports and exercise, interests, academic studies, working conditions, food and meals, taxi travel, money, household chores, habits, extreme weather, environment, materials things are made of, emotions and extreme adjectives, present yourself at interviews, make suggestions and give advice and directions
- Use a wide range of grammar, including nouns with prepositional phrases, past progressive, ‘have to and ‘can’, comparative adjectives, ‘will, ‘might’ and ‘may’, real and unreal conditionals, ‘some and any’, passive voice, infinitives and gerunds and ‘used to’ and ‘would’ to talk about past habits and routines
Course Materials:
Students will be provided relevant course material during the course duration.
Assessment
Student performance will be based on examinations in comprehension and usage, writing, speaking and continuous assessment. Continuous assessment includes home and in-class portfolio assignments ranging from extended writing tasks to weekly reflection given each weeks.
Mid-Course Examination:
Content: Comprehension/Usage/Vocabulary
Format: MCQs
Frequency: One mid-course exam
Time: 60 minutes
Writing Examinations:
Content: Punctuation and sentence construction, including questions and statements
Format: 20 questions to be answered in complete sentences ; second assessment includes a guided writing task
Frequency: Two writing examinations
Time: 30 minutes
Speaking Examinations:
Content: High frequency and common sentence structures
Format: Short Interview format; with five high frequency questions and questions common to course material followed by a picture description task
Frequency: Two speaking examinations
Time: Approximately 3 minutes
Continuous Assessment:
Content:
- A variety of portfolio assignments that cover the following:
- Extended writing tasks
- Workbook and home assignments
- Grammar & vocabulary quizzes
- Reading comprehension tasks& Weekly reflections
Format: Worksheets divided into weekly sections and compiled in a folder
Frequency: Every weeks
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