Requirements
- At least Matric
Course Objectives/ Outlines
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- Understand and use effective aural strategies to process spoken language.
- Communicate orally in English for personal, social, and academic purposes.
- Apply critical thinking skills in reading and writing.
- Read and comprehend texts of varying length at basic/low intermediate level.
- Develop knowledge of vocabulary and grammar.
- Understand and use effective writing skills to express ideas/give information.
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- Critical thinking skills:
- Recognize personal attitudes and preferences
- Evaluate and classify information in a text
- Identify the advantages and disadvantages of things
- Interpret cartoons, graphs, pictures, maps
- Infer word meaning from context
- Draw conclusions
- Propose solutions
- Distinguish between opinion and fact
- Listening tasks:
- Listen for main ideas and details
- Interpret speaker’s tone and attitude
- Relate listening to personal experience
- Synthesize information from two listening texts
- Listen and take notes on details using an outline/ chart
- Compare and contrast information from two listening texts
- Speaking tasks:
- Express and defend opinions
- Act out a conversation
- Role- play different situations
- Interview people on various topics
- Pronunciation:
- Recognize stress patterns of nouns and adjectives, numbers,
- Reading tasks:
- Read for main ideas
- Scan for details
- Make predictions
- Relate personal experience to the text
- Synthesize information from two texts
- Summarize information in a text using (graphic organizer)
- Writing tasks:
- Compose a paragraph.
- Compose a paragraph to describe something (person, place and object).
- Form basic sentences with correct word order.
- Combine simple sentences to make compound sentences.
- Write complete sentences.
- Use basic punctuation.
- Spell common words.
- Use basic lexis appropriately.
- Distinguish between informal/formal register
- Vocabulary:
- Demonstrate knowledge of word definitions, synonyms, antonyms,
- prefixes, association, dictionary work, appropriate usage
- Grammar:
- Recognize the simple present tense.
- Recognize the present progressive tense.
- Demonstrate understanding of the simple past tense.
- Recognize the future tenses will and going to.
- Use subject pronouns.
- Identify basic parts of speech.
- Use prepositions of place and time.
- Use basic adjectives.
- Use the simple past tense.
- Use the simple present tense and present progressive tense.
- Use the simple future tense.
- Recognize articles
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