COURSE SYLLABUS
Course Title: Grammar (2)
Course Code: Eng. 142
Number of credit hours: 2X2= 4 hrs
Instructor: Mohammad A. Al-Dajani
Office phone:
Office hours:
E-mail: mdajani2001@gmail.com
I- Course Description:
It is a grammar course intended for intermediate freshmen students of Teachers
College who have acquired the basics of grammar. It continues what is achieved
in grammar 1. It also 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
This course intends to sharpen the skills of freshmen students in recognizing and
using grammatical structures further more since 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 contributes, along with grammar 1,
to bridging the gap between the use and usage of grammar.
III-Course Objectives:
By the end of this course, level-two grammar students are expected to be able to:
1. practice tenses further more in real life situations.
2. identify and use count and non-count nouns.
3. identify modal auxiliaries.
4. identify phrasal verbs.
5. recognize and use participles and adjectives; comparative and superlative forms.
6 Identify compound and complex sentences.
7. Recognize and use connectors
8. identify and use the passive voice.
9. Recognize and use adjective clauses.
10. Recognize and use gerunds and infinitives.
11. Identify and use conditional sentences.
IV-Calendar, Course Contents and Assignment Specifications:
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Time |
Topic |
Assignments |
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First week
Chapter 1
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Introducing the course
· Second session:
Verb BE
The present simple tense
|
Students are to:
Do consolidation exercises
Verb Conjugation |
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Second week |
The present continuous tense
· Second session:
The simple past and past continuous tenses
|
Students are to:
Do consolidation exercises
Verb formation |
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Third week |
The simple future and future continuous tenses
· Second session:
Personal pronouns, possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns
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Students are to:
Do consolidation exercises
Use pronouns in different sentences |
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Fourth week
Chapter 3& 4
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Count and non-count nouns
· Second session:
How much and how many
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Students are to:
Do consolidation exercises
|
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Fifth week
Chapter 5 |
Modal auxiliaries
· Second session:
Modal auxiliaries
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Students are to:
Do consolidation exercises
|
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Sixth week
Chapter 6 |
Inseparable phrasal verbs
· Second session:
Separable phrasal verbs
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Students are to:
Do consolidation exercises
|
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Seventh week
Chapter 7 |
Compound sentences
· Second session:
Complex sentences
|
Students are to:
Do consolidation exercises
|
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Eighth
Week
Chapter 8 |
Connectors
· Second session:
-Adjectives and participles
-Comparative and superlative forms |
Students are to:
Do consolidation exercises
|
|
Ninth week |
Mid-term Exam
· Second session:
Correcting the mid-term exam
|
|
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Tenth week
Chapter 9
|
Passive voice
· Second session:
Passive voice
|
Students are to:
Do consolidation exercises
Use going to and the simple future in sentences of their own |
|
Eleventh week
Chapter 10 |
Adjective clauses
· Second session:
Adjective clauses |
Students are to:
Do consolidation exercises
Use the present continuous & and the simple present to express the future |
|
Twelfth
Week
Chapter 11 |
Adjective clauses
· Second session:
Adjective clauses |
Students are to:
Do consolidation exercises
Correcting verbs |
|
Thirteenth
Week
Chapter 12 |
Gerunds
· Second session:
Infinitives
|
Students are to:
Do consolidation exercises
Verb conjugation |
|
Fourteenth
Week
Chapter 6 |
Causatives and structurally related verbs
· Second session:
Verbs of perceptions
|
Students are to:
Do consolidation exercises
|
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Fifteenth week
Chapter 7 |
Conditional sentences
Conditional sentences |
Students are to:
Do consolidation exercises
|
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Sixteenth week
Chapter 8 |
Past wishes and conditions
Review |
Revising the simple past tense & the past continuous. |
V- Evaluation:
Attendance and participation |
10 marks |
|
Mid-term exam |
30 marks |
|
Final exam |
60 marks |
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total |
100 marks |
VI- Required text:
Interactions 2, 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//
http://www.english-to-go.com/elseresources.htm
X- References
1.Swan, Michael, Practical English Usage, Oxford. Oxford University Pres. 1996
2. Thomson& Martinet, A Practical English Grammar. London. Oxford University Press.
3. Quirk & Green Baum, A University Grammar of English. London. Longman. 1990