Grammar
Description
Course number & Code: Najd 298
Course title: Grammar III (Level Three) /Contact hours: 2
Textbook: MOSAIC ONE / GRAMMAR
Prerequisite: Grammar II
Chapters to be covered: 6 to 8
Content and objectives
The course seeks to deepen students’ knowledge of major grammatical components, particularly with reference to the analysis of complex sentences. The main objective is to include grammatical elements such as tools of emphasis, cohesive devices and conjunctive elements, relative pronouns, passive forms in the different tense frames, appositive constructions, modals of attitude, gerund and infinitive constructions. Students are trained to identify and produce examples of such forms and patterns with a view to using them in the construction of complex sentences and building them in cohesive and coherent essays. Thus the grammar course seeks to contribute to the improvement of students’ writing, speaking, listening, and reading skills.
Weekly schedule and Skills
Weeks 1 & 2
Chapter One: An Overview of the Tense Systems
Chapter Two: The Simple Present and Continuous Tenses The Present Perfect Continuous
Weeks 3 & 4
Chapter Three: The Simple Past, The Past Continuous, The Present Perfect Tense With Unspecified Past Tense.
Present tense with Future Meaning, the Future Continuous, the Future Perfect and Future Perfect Continuous Tenses Habitual Past, the Future in the Past
The Past Perfect and the Past Perfect Continuous
Week 5 Revision and consolidation exercises
Midterm test
Week 6
Chapter 4: Modals and their uses as speech acts, as expressions of possibility and
probability
Weeks 7 & 8
Chapter 7: Gerunds and their various uses
Weeks 9 , 10 & 11
Chapter 9: Clauses with that, when, and where
Restrictive and non-restrictive clauses
Clauses with whom, which
Clause to Phase Reduction
Midterm test
Weeks 12 & 13
Chapter 11: Clauses and Related Structures of Cause, Purpose, and Effect or Result
Clauses and Related Structures of Contrast: Concession and Opposition
Clauses of Result
Week 14: Revision and Consolidation exercises
Note: UNDERSTANDING AND USING ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 3rd edition, has been
introduced on an experimental basis. Teachers of grammar at this level have felt that the textbook in use does not give enough emphasis to phrases and clauses in complex and compound sentences. The two books could be used to achieve the aims of the course.