Reading/ Level 1/ Course Description
1st Semester 2009
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Instructor
Location
Website
Means of contact |
Mashael Salem Al- Salem
BL: 19 Office No. 206
http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/Mashael.Al-Salem/default.aspx
Office Ext: 2406 email: mashael.salem@gmail.com |
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Course Title |
Reading 1/ Najd 118 |
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Textbook |
INTERACTIONS 1- Reading – middle east gold edition |
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Content & 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. |
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Skills |
The Reading comprehension course seeks to foster 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
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Subskills |
Word pronunciation, vocabulary, sentence structure [S+V (comp)] |
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Weeks |
Chapters to be covered |
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Week 1
Oct. 3 – 7 |
Orientation |
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Week 2
Oct. 10 – 14 |
Chapter 1: Academic life around the world |
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Week 3
Oct. 17 – 21 |
Chapter 1: Academic life around the world
Chapter 2: Experiencing nature |
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Week 4
Oct. 24 – 28 |
Chapter 2: Experiencing nature
Chapter 3: Living to eat, or eating to live |
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Week 5
Oct. 31 – 4 |
Chapter 3: Living to eat, or eating to live |
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Week 6
Nov. 7 – 11 |
Chapter 4: In the community |
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Week 7
Nov. 14 – 18 |
Chapter 4: In the community
First Mid-Term Exam |
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Week 8
Dec. 5 – 9 |
Chapter 5: Home |
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Week 9
Dec. 12 – 16 |
Chapter 5: Home |
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Week 10
Dec. 19 – 23 |
Chapter 6: Cultures of the world |
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Week 11
Dec. 26 – 30 |
Chapter 7: Health |
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Week 12
Jan. 2 – 6 |
Chapter 8: Entertainment & the Media |
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Week 13
Jan. 9 – 13 |
Chapter 9: Social Life
Second Mid-Term Exam |
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Week 14
Jan. 16 – 20 |
Chapter 10: Sports |
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Week 15
Jan. 23 – 27 |
Revision & Closure |