Daw Wint Yamone Aung
Tutor
At a glance
- 2 lecture hours per week
- 2 credits
- Semester II
- Topics of Study: Languages
People
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. (1999). Advanced English grammar. Cambridge University Press.