Diploma English Course 1102 1432-1433

 Objectives

1.  Summary of the main learning outcomes for students enrolled in the course:

1- Students will be able to read a wide range of texts to build an understanding of texts and acquire new information.

2- Students will use English to communicate fluently.

3-students will use grammatical rules to construct meaningful sentences and paragraphs.

4 -Students will develop their ability in listening to a native speakers through listening to topics that relates to everyday life and experience.

Course number : 1102                  Course code : Najm                     Section code : 724

Time :  9 hours ;

 Saturday:  8 – 11  (Reading & Writing)

 Sunday: 11 – 2  (Writing & Reading)

 Tuesday: 8 – 11 (Listening & Speaking)

 Office hours: 

Saturday: 11-1                              Monday: 11- 1                                   Tuesday: 11- 1

 The lecture will be in room number 106

 100 Marks distribution:- 

60 marks	Exam’s date	40 marks	Exam’s date
20 marks for 1st midterm exam	Saturday 27/11/1432H 25/10/2011	10 for listening Exam	Saturday 29/1/1433H 24/12/2011
20 marks for 2nd midterm exam	Tuesday 11/1/1433H 6/12/2011	30 for written Exam (Reading +Reading resource +writing)	Saturday 6/2/1433H 31/12/2011
5 marks for quiz(s)
5 marks for speaking exam	Saturday 22/1/1433H 17/12/2011
10 marks for attendance & participation

 

C.  Course Description   

1 Topics to be Covered
List of Topics	No of Weeks	Contact hours
Theme 1 ( Education )	1	9
Theme 2( Daily life)	1	9
Theme3( work and Business)	1	9
Theme4( Science and nature)	1	9
Theme 5( The Physical world)	1	9
Theme 6 ( Culture and civilization)	1	9
Theme 7 (They made our world)	1	9
Theme 8( Art and Literature)	1	9
Theme 9( Sports and Leisure	1	9
Theme 10(  Nutrition and Health)	1	9

  

a.  Knowledge

Description of the knowledge to be acquired:

§   Understanding the reading passage and interpreting the main idea of the text.

§   Understanding the grammatical rules of the foreign language and applying them in writing and speaking.

§   Understanding the relevant pre-writing strategy that help the students in the writing process.

§    Listen attentively and identify the topics, ideas in speech or discussion.

§   Student will be able to deliver a clear, coherent oral presentation using information and diction suitable for subject, purpose and audience

Methods of assessment of knowledge acquired:

§   Exams

§   20 minutes quiz on external reading text to apply reading strategies.

§    Free writing assignment

Cognitive Skills

Cognitive skills to be developed

§   The ability to read simple texts. 

§   The ability to recognize vocabulary items  weather its isolated or in a sentence. 

§   Enable the students to use the language in real life situations.. 

§   The ability to write short paragraphs. 

§   Classifying & grouping words . 

§   Making an outline.

§   Inferring the meaning of difficult words from context using semantic and syntactic clues available in the text.

§   The ability to write the summary of a text. 

§   Identifying the Title, headings and subheadings of a text. 

§   Identifying topic sentences of a paragraph.

§   The ability to guess the meaning from the context

§   The ability to understand from lectures given in English.

§   The ability to scan and skim reading passages for information.

§   Infer the meaning of difficult words by giving semantic and syntactic  clues.

Methods of assessment of students cognitive skills

1-Quizzes

       2- exams testing their grammar, their vocabulary and reading skills are given through out the course duration.

Psychomotor Skills

Description of the psychomotor skills to be developed ;

§  The student will be able to give a speech in front of a group of people.

§  It permits the students to

­     practice writing new vocabulary.

­     improve their listening skills.

­     create new sentences.

­     develop the spelling.

§  Participates in group working.

§  Identify parts of speech and punctuation marks.

§  Develop listening comprehension.

§  Students pay attention to sounds and accents.

§  Students are most fluent in discussing topics they know about such as a film, a play, a visit to a museum etc.

§  Develop oral fluency.

§  Improve their listening and speaking skills.

§  Students learn sentence patterns and vocabulary.

Methods of Assessment of students Psychomotor Skills;

§  Worksheets (yes\no) questions & True or false Questions.

§  Ask Oral Questions

§  Students feel that the teacher is listening to them and respecting their opinions.

§  The teacher corrects mistakes in pronunciation and grammar only if the student's meaning is unintelligible or ambiguous (In case of presentation).

Student Support

 Arrangements  for availability of faculty for individual student consultations and academic advice. (include amount of time faculty are available each week)

1. Weakly office hours.
2. Exam error analysis in class.
3. Feed back for each student.
4. Teacher's web page. 
5. Teacher's e-mail. 

Learning Resources

. Required Text(s);

1- Skills in English ( reading )

2- Skills in English ( Writing)

3- Skills in English ( listening

4- Skills in English (speaking)

Essential References;

Dictionary

Recommended Books and Reference Material (Journals, Reports, etc) (Attach  List)

See web support for this book:

 www.skillsinenglish.com

Electronic Materials, Web Sites etc

1-      Check teacher`s web site.

2-      Resources:

·          Reading strategies:

 http://www.learner.org/jnorth/Read20best.html 

·          Learn English voc:

http://www.learnenglish.de/vocabulary/buildings.htm 

·          Parts of speech:

http://www.cityu.edu.hk/elc/quiz/partspee.htm 

·          Grammar exercises:

http://www.english.hilfen.de/en/exercises-list/alle grammar.htm 

·          Paragraph writing:

http://esl.about.comlod/writingintermediate/a/paragraphs.htm 

·          Pronunciation:

http://funeasyenglish.com/amarican-english-pronunciation.htm