English for Beginners
English for Beginners(Programme Code: EFB)
Course Goals:- The course aims to achieve the following goals:
- Understand basic everyday expressions and short, simple texts.
- Engage in simple oral and written communication in order to provide and obtain information.
- Construct very basic and simple sentences.
- Demonstrate limited control of essential grammatical structures.
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Course Description :The course intends to provide students with the fundamentals of the language and a foundation for advancing through the next level of English proficiency. It is a ten-weeks course with 03 to 04 hours of instruction each weeks.
Key Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the students will be able to:
- Interpret and control a narrow range of isolated words and phrases dealing with day-to-day topics including jobs, family, sports, food and drink, clothes, languages and nationalities.
- Locate information and understand main ideas in a short, simple written text.
- Identify main ideas from a conversation or speech on a familiar topic.
- Use simple forms of polite expressions to establish basic social contact and to perform everyday functions including making requests and offers, conducting simple phone conversations, asking, and telling time, giving simple directions, asking about price, etc.
- Use a narrow range of positive and negative adjectives to describe objects, people, and places.
- Exchange information by forming and responding to simple questions.
- Produce simple sentences using the correct word order and punctuation marks.
- Use capital and lower-case letters accurately in writing.
- Construct a short-guided paragraph on a familiar topic concerning home, family, friends and holidays.
- Use the basic tenses including the present and past simple, and present continuous correctly.
- Use the basic auxiliary verbs (am/is/are/was/were/can) and a range of regular and irregular verbs.
- Demonstrate awareness of the essential grammatical features and functions including questions and negatives, plural nouns, frequency adverbs, possessives, pronouns and determiners.
Duration : 8 weeks
Required Material : 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 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
Fee : Rs. 2000/-
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