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LANG 2020 – English IV

At a glance

  • 2 lecture hours per week
  • 2 credits
  • II Semester
  • Topics of Study: Languages

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Course Objectives

  • Enable students to understand different kinds of writings
  • Strengthen sentence structures
  • Enable students to build longer texts, and build and take part in dialogues
  • Distinguish between formal and informal communication
  • Develop reading and listening comprehension skills that will help the students increase the use of cognitive strategies to build knowledge from text and lectures

Prior Preparation

Previous English language courses offered as part of the programme.

Course Description

  • Passive voice: giving simple directions and instructions
  • Simple, complex, and compound sentences
  • Converting short dialogues into narrative passages
  • Contracted forms
  • Homonyms and homophones
  • Descriptive writing
  • Letter writing (formal, informal, e-mail)
  • Reading and listening comprehension

Learning Resources

  • Hewings, M. (2016). Advanced English grammar. Cambridge University Press.

Additional learning resources will be provided by the instructor.