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Course: English Comprehension and Composition

Objectives:

The primary objective of designing this course is to enhance the

students comprehension of English Language.

The students will be helped to implement techniques of improving

understanding of their studies in general and English in particular.

A secondary objective of this course is to help the students learn howto compose various forms of messages in official document writing.

The students will acquire a good level of proficiency of English

language writing.

Course Outline:

Week no. Detail

Week 1

Enhancing Comprehension Skills-

Previewing !eading for main ideas using conte"t for

vocabulary scanning for details ma#ing inferences

identifying e"ceptions and referring to the passage

Week ! Enhancing Comprehension Skills-

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%lass room activities

Week "

#asic $rammar %evie&-

&efinition of a sentence

'entence structures

Punctuation mar#s

(odifiers )adjectives and adverbs*

Week '

#asic $rammar %evie&-

+erb tense

'ubject,verb agreement

Articles-determiner

ord order

Prepositions

Week (

)dvanced Sentence Structures-

$. (isplaced modifiers

/. &angling modifiers

Week *

)dvanced Sentence Structures-0

1. Parallelism

2. 'entence fragments

3. !un,on sentences

Week +

,re-&riting echniues

4ree,writing note #eeping brain storming mind mapping

journalistic questions )3 ws* E"ercises for students

Week /

,aragraph Writing

&efinition unity topical sentence and supporting details

!elevant E"ercises

Essa0Writing

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Week &efinition %haracteristics Types 5rgani6ation common

methods of beginning cohesion coherence Practice

activities

Week 12 ,r3cis Writing&efinition 7eed-0mportance %haracteristics dos and

don8ts in pr9cis writing Practice Activities

Week 11

4essage Composition-

(emo writing

Email messages

Week 1!

4essage Composition-

%+-!esume riting

%over Letter

Week 1"

Word Skills

+ocabulary building synonyms antonyms effective use of

thesaurus dictionary s#ills

Week 1'

,resentation Skills

Assessing the !eason and !eceivers &elivering the

presentation :athering material 5rgani6ation of data ;se

of appropriate language ;se of graphs figures and visual

aids 0nvolving the audience

Week 1( Student5s ,resentations-

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Students ,resentations-

Week 1* ,roblem Solving Session and Critiue

%ecommended Course 7iterature:

#aron5s S) Writing

8igh School English $rammar and Composition )ren and (artin*

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#usiness Communication )Loc#er < =ac6mare#*

%ecommended Course %euirements and E9pectations:

1 >ui66es )$?@*

1 Assignments )$?@*

0ndividual Presentation )3@*

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