King Saud University
Community College, Quwyi'yah
Course Number: ENG 120
Course Title: Building Vocabulary
Credit Hours: 2
Class Standing: Level 1
Course Description: This course aims at enriching the learners’ vocabulary by providing them with frequent words in many fields of life. Besides, through the course the learners are trained on important vocabulary learning strategies, e.g. identifying the meaning of words by analyzing their structure into the stem and the affixes (prefixes and suffixes).
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Week |
Items to be Covered |
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1 |
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Registration & Introduction to the course |
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2 |
Air Travel [p.4] |
Suffixes and Prefixes [pp.60-65] |
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3 |
Bank Accounts [p.5] |
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4 |
Books and Readings [p.7] |
Problem Pairs [pp.94-97] |
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5 |
Cars [p.8] |
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6 |
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Doctors and Hospital [p.10] |
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7 |
First Mid Term Examination |
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8 |
Flats and Houses [p.13] |
Occupation [p.50] |
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9 |
Foods and Restaurants [p.14] |
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10 |
Shopping [p.23] |
Parts of Body [p.54] |
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11 |
Television and Newspaper [p.25] |
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12 |
Work [p.30] |
Tools / Vehicles [pp.46-47] |
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13 |
Second Mid Term Examination |
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14 |
Clothes / Parts of Body [pp.52-54] |
Shapes [p.57] |
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15 |
Punctuation Marks [p.55] |
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16 |
Revision |
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Textbook: Intermediate Vocabulary, E. Arnold, London, 1989.