Course Syllabus English 101
Course Title English Level One: Elementary
Course Code ELCA 102
Course Description:
English 102 is an Elementary course in English intended to provide students with the fundamentals of the language and a foundation for advancing through the four required levels of English proficiency.
Course Goals
The current course aims to achieve the following goals:
1. Understand basic everyday expressions and short, simple texts
2. Engage in simple oral and written communication in order to provide and obtain information
3. Construct very basic and simple sentences
4. Demonstrate limited control of essential grammatical structures
Key Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the students will be able to:
1.1. Interpret and control a narrow range of isolated words and phrases dealing with everyday topics like jobs, family, sports, food and drink, clothes, languages and nationalities.
1.2. Locate information and understand main ideas in a short, simple written text.
1.3. Identify main ideas from a conversation or speech on a familiar topic.
2.1. Use simplest forms of polite expressions to establish basic social contact and to perform everyday
functions like making requests and offers, conducting simple phone conversations, asking and telling
time, giving simple directions, asking about price, ordering a meal, etc.
2.2. Use a narrow range of positive and negative adjectives to describe objects, people and places.
2.3. Exchange information by forming and responding to simple questions.
3.1. Produce simple sentences using the correct word order and punctuation marks.
3.2. Use capital and lower case letters accurately in writing.
3.3. Construct a short guided paragraph on a familiar topic like home, family, friends and holidays.
4.1. Use the basic tenses (present and past simple/ present continuous) correctly.
4.2. Use the basic auxiliary verbs (am/is/are/was/were/can) and a range of regular and irregular verbs.
4.3. Demonstrate awareness of the essential grammatical features and functions like questions and negatives, plural nouns, frequency adverbs, possessives, pronouns and determiners.
Course Materials
Soars, John and Liz, (2011), New Headway Plus, Special Edition, Elementary Level, Oxford University Press, Students will use the following resources in the course of the module:
• Student’s book
• Student’s workbook
• Supplemental DVD-ROM with practice material
Course Length and Pacing English 102 consists of 3 hours of class time each week.
Assessment:
Midterm: 30
Attendance: 10
Homework: 10
Final: 50
Dates for the examinations will vary each module depending on the University calendar. Exact dates will be announced by your instructor and posted on the ELI website. Students are expected to present original work in all examinations. Plagiarism or copying the work of others in any form may be cause to invalidate a test assessment, resulting in no credit or mark for that work.