Course Goals Outcomes

Course Goals:

English103 (Pre-Intermediate) aims to achieve the following goals:

Key Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the course, the students will be able to:

• Identify a writer’s purpose (showing cause and effect/comparing and contrasting/to persuade).
• Summarize the main ideas and supporting details of a written text.
• Understand most aspects of a range of conversations on topics of interest.
• 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.
• Select appropriate vocabulary to talk about feelings, opinions and experiences.
• Recognize, understand and use a number of phrasal verbs and collocations.
• Construct a range of text types including email, descriptive, biographical, narrative and discursive texts using a single paragraph.
• Write a clear topic sentence and an effective concluding sentence for a paragraph.
• Use appropriate linkers and relative pronouns (although/however/until/when/where/which/while) to add cohesion to a text.
• Understand the form and function of a range of tenses including present simple, continuous and perfect, past simple and continuous and will and going to future.
• Use a range of modal verbs (can/could/might/should/must/have got to), infinitives and verb patterns.
• Demonstrate awareness of a variety of grammatical features and functions like conditionals, passives, time clauses and a range of determiners.