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COURSE OUTLINE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

COURSE COMMUNICATION SKILLS (RHETORICAL GRAMMAR)
OBJECTIVES
To enable students to
a. tell the function and use word classes to make messages
b. develop the basic grammatical base
c. establish control over sentence boundary
d. determine the grammatical choices to make in constructing messages

COURSE OUTLINE
1. Introduction to Basic Grammar
a. What is language? (Definition)
b. Word Classes
c. Sentence Sense
- Subject
- Predicate
d. Clause vs. Sentence
e. Sentence Patterns (SVA, SVC, SV, SVO, SVOO, SVOC and SVOA)
f. Phrase vs. Clause

2. The Noun Group (phrase)

a. Nouns (Headword Noun)
i. Common
ii. Proper
iii. Collective
iv. Countable
v. Uncountable (mass)
vi. Genitive
b. Determiners

c. Pronouns
i. Subjective case
ii. Objective case
iii. Possessive case
iv. Other forms
d. Adjectives
i. Modifying nouns (attributive)
ii. Modifying subject after link verb (predicative)
iii. Comparative and superlatives forms
iv. Nouns modifying nouns
v. Articles
Vi. Order of adjectives

3. The Verb Group (phrase)

a. Verbs
i Primary auxiliary
ii Modal auxiliary
iii Main verbs

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b. Forms & tenses
i Base
ii S (3rd person singular)
iii -ing (present participle)
iv Past participle
v To infinitive
vi Regular and irregular
vii Present past, future tenses & aspect
c. Adverbs
i Modifying a verb
ii Modifying an adjective
iii Modifying another adverb
iv Comparative and superlative forms
v Order of Adverbs
4. Mood
i. Declarative, Interrogative, Exclamatory, Imperative
ii. Yes/No Question
iii. Wh-word Question
iv. Question tag
5. Sentence Structure
i. Simple Sentence
ii. Compound Sentence
iii. Complex Sentence
iv. Compound Complex
6. Subordinate Clauses
i. Adverbial
ii. Adjectival
iii. Nominal
7. Vocabulary
i. Synonyms
ii. Antonyms
iii. Idioms, Proverbs (fixed collocations)

8. Connecting words
Prepositions
- position,
- movement,
- direction

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Conjunctions
- coordinating,
- correlative
- subordinating

MODE OF DELIVERY
Lectures
Discussions
Assignments

COURSE COMMUNICATION SKILLS III

OBJECTIVES
To enable students to
a. speak and write fluently with little error
b. develop the skills needed for independent reading

COURSE OUTLINE
1. Introduction to writing
a. The writing process
i pre-writing
ii writing
iii post-writing
b. Types of essays
i descriptive
ii narrative
iii cause & effect
iv speech
v argument & persuasion
vi comparison /contrast
vii creative writing
viii article
ix report

c. Letters
i Informal
ii Semi-formal
iii Formal

Comprehension

Class one: Introduction to the reading process

Class two: Comprehension skill; reading for detail and main points

Class three: Comprehension skill; coherence pronoun antecedents etc

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Class four: Comprehension skill; vocabulary / substitution synonyms etc.

Class five: Comprehension skill; inference

Class six: Focus; opinion/ attitude

Class seven: Focus; Grammatical term

Class eight: Focus; Figurative language

Class nine: Pulling it all together

MODE OF DELIVERY
Lectures
Discussions
Assignments

SUMMARY
The English Sound Systems
Speech Sounds
The international phonetic alphabet
Consonantal sounds of English
o Consonant digraphs
o Silent letters
The vowel sounds of English
o Monophthongs
Short vowels
Long vowels
Vowel digraphs
o Diphthongs