17/08/2022
Intermediate English course
This course has two main objectives: first, it is intended to prepare students for English for academic purposes by developing reading, writing, presentation, and critical thinking skills. Second, students will develop outcomes such as grammar and conversation skills in order to improve their confidence and fluency with English as a second language.
Duration 1months
Classes Thrice a week
Minimum requirement FSC / A-Levels
Timing Evening
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to demonstrate the following:
Critical and Creative Thinking:
• Recall and interpret information
• Identify subject/topic, main ideas, supporting ideas, and sequence
• Draw conclusions
• Analyze information and solve problems ( create solution, identify impact of solution, modify solutions)
• Identify and discuss examples of fact and of opinion
• Support a position
• Classify
• Define
• Summarize
Reading, Research, and Reference
• Use context clues and word structure analysis to determine meaning
• Recognize homonyms, antonyms, and synonyms
• Use a dictionary and a thesaurus to expand vocabulary
• Read to locate specific information
• Use a variety of reference materials
• Use in-book reference tools. (index, table of contents, glossary)
• Use skimming and scanning techniques
• Develop skills in outlining, memorizing, exam taking, and note-taking
• Recognize point of view, illogical argument. Fallacies, stereotypes, bias, and propaganda
Written Communication
• Understand and use the steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing
• Gather ideas, define and narrow a topic; evaluate, select, and organize source materials
• Adjust content and style of writing to suit purpose, audience, and situation
• Revise and edit work to improve content, organization, word choice, phrasing, Sentence, and paragraph structure, punctuations, and mechanics
• Write effective paragraphs in a range of rhetorical modes( may include narrative, descriptive, process, compare/contrast, cause/effect, classification, expository and persuasive)
• Write summary
• Write essay
Co-operative Communication
• Establish co-operative work relationship with others
• Recognize and respect diversity and individual differences
• Establish goals and priorities
• Respond appropriately to thoughts, opinions, non-verbal cues, and work of others
• Challenge assumptions constructively
Computer Literacy
• Use computer programs to create, and edit
• Use electronic communication
• Format assignments appropriately
Test and evaluation
Test 50%
Assignments 25%
Presentation 25%