Course code: 111Eng-3                                                                      Course title: Listening and speaking-1

Credit hours: 3hours                                                             level: 1

Pre-requisites: NULL

Course definition:

The course aims to train the students to understand the meanings of words from the context, and then they should be able to start and end a conversation.

The students should be able to understand voice mail messages and describe people.

They should learn how to give advice and understand invitations and responses of   agreeing and disagreeing. They also should be able to use the internet and make polite complaints. Also they should learn how to talk about food recipes and nutrition. By the end of this course they should be able to use charts for traveling.

Course syllabus :

Chapter (1): neighbors, cities and towns

Chapter (2): shopping and E- commerce.

Chapter (3): friends and family.

Chapter (4): health and care.

Chapter (5): making friends.

Chapter (6): sleep and dream.

Chapter (7): work and life styles.

Chapter (8): food and nutrition.

Chapter (9): great destination.

Chapter (10): our planet.

Textbooks:

-          Interactions Access (Gold Edition). McGraw- Hill / ISBN 13: 9780077116460- Emily Thrush- Robert Baldwin- Laurie Blass.

Course code: 113 Eng-3                                                                     Course title: Reading-1

Credit hours: 3hours                                                                          level: 1

Pre-requisites:  NULL

Course definition:

The course aims to train the students to scan and understand a passage, read a map, preview verb sentences, summarize a passage, use    dictionary, read an internet blog, understand pronouns, give advice, describe illnesses, identify opposites, read faster, use possessive adjectives, understand moods, search for information on the net, use suffixes and prefixes, figer out words with more than one meaning, reaching to a conclusion using evidence and make inference.

Course syllabus :

Chapter (1): neighbors, cities and towns

Chapter (2): shopping and E- commerce.

Chapter (3): friends and family.

Chapter (4): health and care.

Chapter (5): making friends.

Chapter (6): sleep and dream.

Chapter (7): work and life styles.

Chapter (8): food and nutrition.

Chapter (9): great destination.

Chapter (10): our planet

Textbooks:

-  Interactions Access (Gold Edition). McGraw- Hill / ISBN 10: 0077116305- Pamela Hartmann- James Mentel- Ahmed Motala.

Course code: 115Eng-3                                                          Course title: Writing-1

Credit hours: 3hours                                                              level: 1

Pre-requisites: NULL

Course definition:

It aims to make the students able to write simple and accurate paragraphs and to pay attention to sentence structure, verb formation, punctuation, spelling and the use of capital letters

Also it aims to train students to answer a variety of exercise types such as reading comprehension, gap filling, table completion, the correction of passages, and writing of sentences and paragraphs using tabular information. All these exercises are based on realistic topics and language functions, which are motivating to the students and useful in real life situations.

Course syllabus:

Unit (1): friend and relatives.

Unit (2): introducing yourself.

Unit (3): places 1- countries, cities, towns and villages

Unit (4): places 2- streets and houses.

Unit (5): describing a day.

Unit (6): describing a scene.

Textbooks:

-          Keep  Writing 1 ( Richard Harrison) – ISBN 0 582 03022 

Course code: 117Eng-3                                                                      Course title: Grammar-1

Credit hours: 3hours                                                              level: 1

Pre-requisites: NULL

Course definition:

The course aims to develop communicative and interactive language- activities, increase speaking practice through extensive use of pair and group work and supply the students with more activities that provide "real life communication" opportunities in real- time, real- place context of the classroom.

Course syllabus:

Chapter (1) using (be)

Chapter (2) using (be) and (have)

Chapter (3) using the simple present tense

Chapter (4) using the present progressive tense

Chapter (5) talking about the present

Chapter (6) nouns and pronouns

Chapter (7) count and uncount nouns

Chapter (8) expressing past time, part 1

Chapter (9) expressing past time, part 2

Textbooks

• Basic English Grammar book – Third Edition-Betty schrampfer Azar& Stacy A. Hagen 1941- ISBN 978-0-13-240966-7; 0-13-240966-6(Pbk).

Course code: 119Eng-3                                                                      Course title: Vocabulary

Credit hours: 3hours                                                              level: 1

Pre-requisites: NULL

First: course definition:

It aims to improve vocabulary quickly, make the students more confident to use the right words when they're needed, explain new words in context and shows you how to use them in real life situations.

Error warnings and vocabulary tips help avoid common mistakes and learn new vocabulary more effectively.

This course is based on a corpus of real written and spoken language to ensure the vocabulary is completely up to date.

Second: course syllabus:

Part (1): People; Family, Birth and Marriage, Parts of the body, Clothes, Describing people, Health and Illness, Feelings and Greetings.

Part (2): At home; Food, kitchen, Bedroom and Living room.

Part (3): School and Workplace; jobs, at school and university, address and computer.

Part (4): Leisure; Holidays, Shops, Hotels, Eating out, Sports, Cinema, Free time and Music.

Part (5): The world; countries, weather, town and railway station, countryside, animals, traveling and UK culture fireworks.

Part (6): social issues; Crime and Murder, the Media, Problems at home and Global problems.

Textbooks:

-          English Vocabulary in use( Elementary)- Second Edition – Michael McCarthy & Felicity O'Dell – ISBN 978-0-521- 136174 Edition with answers

Course code: 121Trans-3                                                       Course title: Translation-1

Credit hours: 3hours                                                              level: 1

Pre-requisites: NULL

Course definition:

It aims to train the students to translate from English to Arabic and vice versa applying the grammar rules in order to be able to communicate with people in real life situations.

Course syllabus:

Part (1): Translation between" Theory and Application".

Part (2): Translating simple sentences in prose and poetry.

Textbooks :

-          Practical Translation (1) between" Arabic and English "- Dr. Mohammed Amin Adl Elgawad – KKU 2008- Gaza- Palestine 2007.