English 1 1101
King Saud University
College of Applied Studies &Community Service
Department: Administrative & humanities Sciences
Course Syllabus |
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Course code: Engl 1101 | Course Title: English (1) |
Course prerequisite: none | Course Level: elementary |
Credit hours: 9 hours |
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E-mail Address | Office Hours | Office Number and Location | Rank | Name |
09-10 AM (daily) 12-02 PM (daily) | 2-M-16 | Master | Malik Nassar |
Course/ module description:
This course aims at consolidating and extending students' knowledge of English Language and providing them with reasonable skills necessary for communication in both verbal and written English up to the pre-intermediate level, by promoting its use in reading, writing, listening and speaking, for general and study purposes. By the end of the course, students are expected to to use English in all kinds of situations, build vocabulary, listen actively and respond properly, discuss a variety of topics in English, read for meaning, communicate in writing, and speak clearly and properly. Throughout the course, students are given a wide range of university-level topics and specific skills required for academic reading including skimming, scanning, intensive reading, topic sentences and prediction. In addition, the course is supported with writing tasks that tackle different academic text types, strategies to help students deal with unknown words and organize, record, vary, and build their vocabulary. Moreover, students are guided in writing skills, including such features as planning, coherence, cohesion, and checking writing assignments.
Course/ module objectives:
1 . Develop reading skills and strategies (skimming, scanning, recognizing context clues, understanding affixes etc.).
2 . Read short scientific texts and recognize the basic word structure.
- 3. Use an English/ English dictionary with emphasis.
- 4. Revise the key structures taught earlier and compose different types of simple sentence.
- 5. Practice writing notes and outlines on reading material.
6. Write short informal and formal letters e.g. letter of complaint, placing an order, … etc. 7. Understand and use Basic English for everyday situations.
- 8. Ask for information using different notions.
- 9. Communicate reasonably: converse with strangers, greet people, ask for repetition, apologize, tell the time, describe feelings and emotions.
- 10. Produce orally and in writing correct meaningful utterances.
- 11. Emphasize the key structures taught before and required to compose well-formed simple sentences.
- 12. Fill out application forms.
Course/ module components
- Books (title , author (s), publisher, year of publication)
Soars, John & Lynn. New Headways Plus, Elementary Student’s Book. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2011).
Soars, John & Lynn. New Headways Plus, Elementary Workbook without Key. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2011).
Philpot, Sarah. New Headway Academic Skills: Reading, Writing, and Study Skills, Level 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2011).
- Support material (s) (Journals, publications, etc).
- Grammar Dimensions: Form, meaning and use. Book 2 Larsen-Freeman (Heinle & Heinle, 2000)
- Tapestry Listening & Speaking, Book 3. K Carlisi, S Christie (Heinle & IIcinle, 2000)
- Functional English: A Saudi Arabian Hospital Context. Upper Intermediate. Mokhtar Aftat (1999).
- Tapestry Writing, Book 3. M Pike-Baky. L Blass (Heinle & Heinle, 2000).
- Dictionaries: Oxford Word Power
- Study guide (s) (if applicable)
- Homework and laboratory guide (s) if (applicable).
Websites
www.learner.org/interactives/spelling/index.html
www.edunet.com/english/practice.html
Teaching methods:
Lectures, discussion groups, tutorials, problem solving, debates, etc.
Learning outcomes:
- Knowledge and understanding
1 . Develop reading skills and strategies (skimming, scanning, recognizing context clues, understanding affixes etc.).
2 . Read short scientific texts and recognize the basic word structure.
- Use an English/ English dictionary with emphasis.
- Revise the key structures taught earlier and compose different types of simple sentence.
- Practice writing notes and outlines on reading material.
6. Write short informal and formal letters e.g. letter of complaint, placing an order, … etc.
7. Understand and use Basic English for everyday situations.
- 8. Ask for information using different notions.
- 9. Communicate reasonably: converse with strangers, greet people, ask for repetition, apologize, tell the time, describe feelings and emotions.
- 10. Produce orally and in writing correct meaningful utterances.
- 11. Emphasize the key structures taught before and required to compose well-formed simple sentences.
- 12. Fill out application forms.
- 13. Develop general lexical skills.
- 14. Expand general listening/ speaking skills.
- 15. Focus on tenses
- Cognitive skills (thinking and analysis).
- 1. The ability to analyse, study and understand the course topics.
- The ability to identify a writer’s purpose (showing cause and effect/comparing and contrasting/to persuade)
3. The ability to summarize the main ideas and supporting details of a written text.
4. The ability to understand most aspects of a range of conversations on topics of interest.
5. The ability to establish and maintain social contact by using language appropriate to the context in common social situations including conducting formal and informal phone conversations, making and responding appropriately to requests, suggestions, invitations and apologies, carrying out regular transactions in public places like shops, offices, hotels, banks, hospitals, etc.
6. The ability to select appropriate vocabulary to talk about feelings, opinions and experiences.
7. The ability to recognize, understand and use a number of phrasal verbs and collocations.
8. The ability to construct a range of text types including email, descriptive, biographical,
narrative and discursive texts using a single paragraph.
- Communication skills (personal and academic).
- Respecting the professor by the students during and after the lecture.
- The student's adaptation of himself to working with his colleagues on the course.
- Student's ability to cooperate and work collectively with his colleagues as well as respecting their points of view.
- Development of mental abilities of the student to organize his time and his ability to concentrate, comprehend, and memorize of the course.
- Self-learning by doing individual work through the homework that is required from the student and submitting it on time. Students can complete both reading and writing exercises in due time.
- Students can participate in communicative situations.
- Students can act responsibly and ethically in carrying out individual as well as group assignments.
- Students can listen, read, write, and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses in the process of language learning.
Assessment instruments.
* Short reports and/ or presentations, and/ or Short research projects
- Assignments, attendance, presentations, and participation 30%
- Midterm exams 30%
- Final exam 40%
Allocation of Marks | |
Mark | Assessment Instruments |
15 | First examination |
15 | Second examination |
40 | Final examination: |
30 | Reports, Quizzes, Homework, Projects |
100 | Total |
Documentation and academic honesty
- Documentation style (with illustrative examples)
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- Protection by copyright
- Avoiding plagiarism.
Course/module academic calendar
week | Basic and support material to be covered | Homework/reports and their due dates |
(1) | Introduction, general English conversations, familiarizing students with the components of the course textbooks and the course exams, and knowing student's English level through exercises and conversations
UNIT 1: Hello Everybody! (NHP) Grammar: Verb to be, Possessive adjectives Vocabulary: countries, using a bilingual dictionary, everyday objects, plural nouns Reading and Writing: introducing yourself Listening and speaking: The alphabet song Everyday English: Telephone numbers & Social expressions |
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(2) | Unit 2: Meeting people (NHP) Grammar: verb to be, questions & negatives, short answers, possessive 's Vocabulary: the family, opposite adjectives, food and drink Reading and Listening: An email from America Everyday English: In a cafe, prices, and question words
Unit 1: Student life (AS) Reading: How do you read? ways of reading Writing: describing people, punctuation (1), linking ideas (1), rules: present simple, checking your writing, writing about people Vocabulary: dictionary work (1), parts of speech, a dictionary entry (1), recording vocabulary (1) Review: p9 | Homework (1) Due on 15/9/2012 |
(3) | Unit 3: The world of work (NHP) Grammar: Present simple (1), questions & negatives Vocabulary: Verbs, jobs Reading: Seumas Mc Sporran-the man with twelve jobs Listening and speaking: Seumas's day Everyday English: Telling the time Writing: personal pronouns, possessive adjectives, rewriting a text
Unit 2: Daily routines (AS) Reading: work and stress, predicting content (1), skimming Writing: routines and procedures, handwriting, paragraphs, linking ideas (2), writing about routine and procedures Vocabulary: collocations, jobs ending in er/or/ist Review: p15 |
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(4) | Unit 4: Take it Easy! (NHP) Grammar: Present simple (2) Vocabulary: Verbs, leisure activities Reading and listening: Three people talk about seasons Speaking: a questionnaire, What's your favourite season? Leisure activities Everyday English: social expressions (1) Writing: an informal letter
Unit 3: People and the environment (AS) Reading: weather, scanning, meaning from context Writing: describing our lives, punctuation (2), frequency adverbs, study tips, writing about study habits Research: finding information (1), sources Vocabulary: drawings & diagrams, recording vocabulary (2) Review: p21 | Homework (2) Due on 30/9/2012 |
(5) | Unit 5: Where do you live? (NHP) Grammar: there is/ are, how many, prepositions of place, some & any, this, that, these, & those Vocabulary: rooms, household goods, parts of a plane, places Speaking and listening: What are the differences between the two pictures Reading and speaking: living in a bubble Listening and speaking: Homes around the world Everyday English: Directions (1)
Revision for the first midcourse exam | Homework (3) Due on 15/10/2012 |
(6) First examination | Unit 6: Can you speak English? (NHP) Grammar: Can/can't, was/were, could, born Vocabulary: countries and languages, verbs, homophones Speaking: Questionnaires-What can you do? Reading and speaking: young entrepreneurs Everyday English: on the phone Writing: Formal letters (1): writing a letter of application for a job
Unit 4: Architecture (AS) Reading: famous buildings, making notes (1), labelling diagrams Research: finding information (2), focusing your search Writing: describing buildings, linking ideas (3), linking ideas (4), words and phrases (1), writing about a building Vocabulary: dictionary work (2): homonyms, countable & uncountable nouns Review: p27 |
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(7) | Unit 7: Then and now (NHP) Grammar: Past simple (1), regular verbs, irregular verbs, time expressions Vocabulary: Verbs, collocations Speaking: the year you were born, when did it happen? Reading and speaking: planes to rockets Everyday English: social expressions (2) Writing: writing a paragraph describing a holiday
Unit 5: Education (AS) Reading: universities, predicting content (2), linking ideas (5) Writing: formal letters and emails, greetings and endings, words and phrases (2), writing a letter or email Vocabulary: spelling (2), spelling rules for plural nouns Research: making notes (2) Review: p33 |
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(8) | Unit 8: How long ago? (NHP) Grammar: Past simple (2), negatives & ago, time expressions Vocabulary: forming adjectives, forming nouns, phonetic symbols Reading and listening: three inventors Speaking: incredible information Listening and speaking: the first time I went abroad Everyday English: What's the date? Writing: Linking words, describing an old friend
Unit 6: Technology (AS) Reading: inventions, getting information from websites, using visuals in a website Writing: describing things, writing definitions, giving examples, writing a description of a device Vocabulary: spelling (3), homophones Research: websites, reliable sources (1) Review: p39 | Homework (4) Due on 11/11/2012 |
(9) | Unit 9: Food you like! (NHP) Grammar: Count and uncount nouns, do you like ...?/would you like ...? a & some, much & many Vocabulary: food and drinks, shops & shopping Listening and speaking: my favourite national food Reading and speaking: food around the world, meals in your country Everyday English: polite requests Writing: formal letters (2)
Unit 7: Food, drink, and culture (AS) Reading: food from other countries, topic sentences, writer's opinion Writing: describing food and drink, punctuation (2), linking ideas (6), using pronouns, writing about food and drink Vocabulary: prefixes and their meanings Review: p45 | Homework (5) Due on 26/11/2012 |
(10) | Unit 10: Bigger and better! (NHP) Grammar: comparatives & superlatives, have got Vocabulary: city & country nouns, city & country adjectives Speaking: I've got more than you! Reading and speaking: megacities , talking about your city Everyday English: directions (2) Writing: linking words and writing about your capital city
Revision for the second midcourse exam |
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(11) | Unit 11: Looking good! (NHP) Grammar: present continuous, whose is it? possessive pronouns Vocabulary: clothes, describing people, rhyming words, phonetic symbols, & tongue twisters Listening and speaking: Who's at the conference? A poem Everyday English: in a clothes shop Writing: linking words, describing people
Unit 8: Cities of the world (AS) Reading: city life, looking at data, getting facts from a text Writing: comparing data, comparatives & superlatives, linking ideas (7), writing about cities Research: researching a city, finding facts and figures Vocabulary: new words Review: p51 | Homework (6) Due on 10/12/2012 |
(12) Second examination | Unit 12: Life's an adventure (NHP) Grammar: going to, infinitive of purpose Vocabulary: Verbs, the weather Reading and speaking: dangerous sports, interviews Everyday English: making suggestions Writing: writing a postcard
Unit 9: Brain power (AS) Reading: a healthy brain, using pronouns and synonyms to avoid repetition, making notes (3) Writing: notes and summaries, common mistakes, summaries, writing a summary Research: books, reliable sources (2) Review: p57 |
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(13) | Unit 13: How terribly clever! (NHP) Grammar: question forms, adjectives & adverbs Vocabulary: describing feelings Speaking and listening : noises in the night Reading and listening: the businessman and the fisherman Everyday English: catching a train Writing: adverbs, writing a story
Unit 10: Staying alive (AS) Reading: dangerous diseases of our time, using what you know, using reference to understand a text, focusing on statistics Writing: describing statistics, linking ideas (8,9,10)words and phrases (3), writing about statistics Vocabulary: numbers in texts, words or figures, synonyms & antonyms Review: spelling of ing forms | Homework (7) Due on 22/12/2012 |
(14) | Unit 14: Have you ever? (NHP) Grammar: present perfect: ever & never/yet & just, present perfect and past simple Vocabulary: past participles, at the airport Speaking: things you have done Reading and speaking: we've learned to drive Listening : A poem Everyday English: at the airport Writing: a thank-you email Everyday English: at the airport
Revision and consolidation for the final exam |
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(16) Final Examination | Final Examination |
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NOTICE: This course is assigned two textbooks, namely New Headway Plus (the elementary level) and New Headway Academic Skills (level 1). NHP stands for the former while AS stands for the latter.
Expected workload:
On average students need to spend 2 hours of study and preparation for each 50-minute lecture/tutorial.
Attendance policy:
Absence from lectures and/or tutorials shall not exceed 25%. Students who exceed the 25% limit without a medical or emergency excuse acceptable to and approved by the Dean of the relevant college/faculty shall not be allowed to take the final examination and shall receive a mark of zero for the course. If the excuse is approved by the Dean, the student shall be considered to have withdrawn from the course.