Reading
Course number & Code: Najd 118
Course title: Reading I (Level One) / contact hours: 4
Textbook: INTERACTIONS 1/ READING/ 4th edition
Chapters to be covered: 8 to 10 chapters
Description
Content and objectives
Reading I is a pre-intermediate course designed to equip students with the necessary
reading skills through reading and comprehension of a variety of short passages that are
descriptive, expository, and dialogic. Comprehension is stimulated through a variety of
questions and exercises, especially those generating the ability to guess meaning of
words, main ideas in paragraphs and across paragraphs. Text comprehension is followed
by a production activity where students discuss relevant issues and express their opinions.
The vocabulary exercises that follow text reading tasks are meant to enrich students’
vocabulary in semantic fields provided by the texts.
Skills
The Reading comprehension course seeks to foster among students the following skills.
Skimming
Scanning
Intensive reading
Extensive reading
Varying reading speeds
Understanding word meaning by relying on immediate context in the text
Understanding word meaning by relying on overall meaning in the text
Recognizing main ideas
Recognizing supporting details
Recognizing topic sentences
Making inferences
Weekly schedule
Week 1: Chapter One: School Life Around the World
Text: International Students
Week 2: Chapter One:
Text: College life Around the World
Week 3: Chapter Two: Experiencing Nature
Text: The Powerful Influence of Weather
Week 4: Chapter Two
Text: Global Climate Changes
Week 5:Chapter Three: Living to Eat or Eating to Live?
Text: The Changing Global DiAet
Week 6: Chapter Three: Living to Eat or Eating to Live?
Text: Facts about Food
Midterm Test
Week 7: Chapter Four: In the Community
Text: How can I get to the Post Office?
Week 8: Chapter Five: Home
Text: A Short History of the Changing Family
Vocabulary - 2nd term, 1428/29
Tentative Syllabus Distribution
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(1) |
16-20/2/1429 |
Units 8,9,10:Revision:Suffixes;Prefixes;Roots |
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(2) |
23-27/2 |
Units 18,19,20:Revision: Words commonly mispronounced;onomatopoeic words;Homonyms |
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(3) |
30-4/3 |
Units 30,38:Words that only occure in Plural;Describing people |
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(4) |
7-11/3 |
Units 40,41,42: At home;Every day Problems ;Global Problems |
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(5) |
14-18/3 |
Units 43,44 Education;Work |
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(6) |
21-2/3 |
Units 46,48: The arts ;Food |
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(7) |
28/3-3/4 |
Units 50,51: Towns ; The natural World |
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3-12/2008
BREAK |
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(8) |
13-17/4 |
Units 53,54 : Health and Medicine;Travel |
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(9) |
20-24/4 |
Units 55,56 : Holidays;Number & Shapes |
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(10) |
27/4-2/5 |
Units 59,60 : The Press & The media ;Politics & Public institutions |
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(11) |
5-9/5 |
Unit 61 : Crime |
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(12) |
12-16/5 |
Unit 62 : Money |
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(13) |
19-23/5 |
Unit 63 : Belief & Opinion |
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