COURSE SYLLABUS

 Course Title: Grammar (1)

Course Code:  Eng. 141

Number of credit hours: 2X2= 4 hrs

 Instructor: Mr. Mohammad A. Al-Dajani

Office phone:   

Office hours: 8-2 5 Days a week.

E-mail: mdajani2001@gmail.com

 I-  Course Description:

         Interactions 1, Grammar is a grammar course intended for low-intermediate freshmen students

of Teachers' College in KSA. The course presents English grammar through lively activities. Students

practice the new structures in a variety of contexts to help them internalize and master them.

II- Rationale:

The grammatical structures students are expected to master are vital for freshmen students who have to

recognize and acquire the structure of the language they are learning. Grammar is the backbone of any

language and knowing the grammar of a language is almost equal to knowing the language itself. Thus,

this grammar course is meant to bridge the gap between knowing grammatical structures and using them.

 

III-Course Objectives:

By the end of this course, level-one grammar students are expected to be able to:

1. Use tenses appropriately in real life situations

2. Skillfully deal with and use information (wh-) and yes/no questions.

3. Identify modal auxiliaries and use them

4. Identify quantifiers and use them

5. Recognize units of measure

6. Compare things /people, using comparatives, superlatives

7. Use equal comparison

8. Recognize prepositions of place and time.

9. Identify count and non count nouns

10. Recognize simple, compound, and complex sentences

 IV-Calendar, Course Contents and Assignment Specifications:

 

Time	Topic	Assignments
First week   Chapter 1	First session: Introducing the course ·        Second session:                                      Verb BE The present simple tense	Students are to:      Do consolidation exercises
Second week	First session: The imperative form ·        Second session: Yes/no and information questions	Students are to:   Do consolidation exercises
Third week	First session: Frequency adverbs ·        Second session: Personal pronouns, possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns	Students are to:       Do consolidation exercises
Fourth week   Chapter 2	First session: There is/ there are ·        Second session: Questions with whose; possessive nouns	Students are to:     Do consolidation exercises
Fifth  week	First session: The present continuous tense Non-action verbs ·        Second session: Modal verbs: can, may, might,, will	Students are to:     Do consolidation exercises
Sixth week   Chapter 3	First session: Nouns & expressions of quantity ·        Second session: Some& any/ a lot of/many/ much	Students are to:     Do consolidation exercises
Seventh  week	First session: Common units of measure Asking question with how many & how much ·        Second session: A few / a little Comparisons with (as…as  & less …than) (…er than & more… than.)	Students are to:       Do consolidation exercises
Eighth week	First session: Comparisons with: (as much/as many…as) (more/less/fewer … than) ·        Second session: Modal verbs: requests, offers & permission	Students are to:     Do consolidation exercises
Ninth  week	First session:        Mid-term Exam ·        Second session:    Correcting the mid-term exam	Students are to:
Tenth  week   Chapter 4	First session: Future verb forms: Be going to ·        Second session: The simple future tense	Students are to:     Do consolidation exercises
Eleventh  week	First session: The present continuous & the simple present to express future time. ·        Second session: Phrasal verbs: form & meanings	Students are to:     Do consolidation exercises
Twelfth   Week     Chapter 5	First session: Prepositions of place and time Articles; definite & indefinite ·        Second session: The simple past tense: Yes/no questions& information questions Used to	Students are to:     Do consolidation exercises
Thirteenth   week	First session: Irregular verbs/past tense of verb BE Connecting words ·        Second session: Complex sentences with because, before, after, as soon as & when	Students are to:     Do consolidation exercises
Fourteenth   Week   Chapter 6	First session: Present perfect tense Ever, never, already, just, recently, still & yet ·        Second session: Superlatives Comparisons with so, too, either & neither, but	Students are to:     Do consolidation exercises
Fifteenth week   Chapter 7	First session        Verb + Object + Infinitive       Modal verbs: should, had better, have to, and must  Second session        Reflexive pronouns        Tag questions	Do consolidation exercises
Sixteenth week Chapter 8	First session The past continuous tense The simple past tense versus the past continuous Second session Infinitives Summary of modal verbs Summary of pronouns: indefinite FINAL EXAM	Do consolidation exercises             FINAL EXAM

 

 

V- Evaluation:

 

Attendance and participation	10 marks
Mid-term exam	30 marks
Final exam	60 marks
	=
total	100 marks

 

VI- Required text:

       Interactions 1, Grammar  (Middle East Edition)

 

VII- Instructional Procedures:

          The course will involve interactive communication between students and their teacher and between students themselves.

          In teaching grammar the teacher should follow certain methods and techniques such as the PPP model ( presentation, practice and production), or the TTT method ( text, teach, and test)

         The teacher's approach of presenting grammar rules can be either deductive or inductive

 

VIII- General Course Requirements:

         Students are expected ton attend all lectures, participate in class and do homework assignments and  research papers when asked.

        An in-class mid-term and a final exam will be given in this course.

IX- Internet sites for teaching English as a second or foreign language:

 

http:// www.teach-nology.com/teachers/bilingual ed// esl/

http://www.english-to-go.com/elseresources.htm

 

X- References

1. Swan, Michael, Practical English Usage.  Oxford.  Oxford University Press. 1996

2. Thomson & Martinet,  A practical English Grammar. London. Oxford University Press.

3. Quirk & Green Baun. A university Grammar of English.

4., Leech, Meaning and the English verb. London. Longman.