University of
Bahrain
English Language Centre
ENGLA 120
Reading, Writing and Study Skills
Course Outline: Fall Semester
2011-2012
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Text Books :
Academic Skills -
Reading,
Writing, and Study Skills Level One
Author :
Richard Harrison
Course Description : The emphasis in this course is on the development of reading and
writing skills. Task themes are study skills based and increase in length,
complexity and variety.
Reading
skills include prediction, skimming, scanning, making notes, getting
information from websites, inference, understanding tables, charts and graphs,
using reference. Writing skills include description of people and lives,
routines and procedures, study habits, buildings, letters and emails. Also
included are definitions, comparison of data, notes and summaries and
describing statistics.
Course map :
Up to Test 1: Chapters 1-4
Up to Test 2: Chapters 6-8
Final Examination taken from the whole course.
Assessment :
· Test
1: 30 marks
· Test
2: 30 marks
· Final Examination : 40 marks
ENGLA 120 Fall Semester 2011-12 Pacing Schedule and dates.
|
Week |
Dates |
Theme |
Pp |
Objectives |
|
1 |
Sep 25 - 29 |
1 |
4-6 |
Punctuation, linking ideas, pres. simp, checking errors |
|
2 |
Oct 2 - 6 |
1-2 |
7-11 |
Writing about people, handwriting, paragraphs,
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|
3 |
Oct 9 – 13 |
2 |
12-15 |
Sequencing, writing about routines |
|
4 |
Oct 16 - 20 |
3 |
16-19 |
Punctuation, frequency, study tips
|
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5 |
Oct 23 - 27 |
3-4 |
20-23 |
Writing about study habits, making notes, meaning from
context, prepositions of place |
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6 |
Oct 30 – Nov 3 |
4 |
24-26 |
Writing about a building, because – so (reason/result) |
|
7 |
Nov 9&10 |
4 |
26- 27 |
Catch up and revision |
|
8 |
Nov 13 - 17 |
1, 2, 3, 4 |
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Revision and Test 1 (30%)Nov 16 (This date may change) |
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M/S
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Nov 20 - 24
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MID
SEMESTER BREAK FOR STUDENTS
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1 |
Nov 27 – Dec 1 |
6 |
34-36 |
Describing things, examples, getting info from websites,
diagrams and pictures |
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2 |
Dec 4 - 8 |
6 |
37-39 |
Writing a description of a device |
|
3 |
Dec 11 - 15 |
7 |
40-41 |
Topic sentence, identifying writer’s opinion |
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4 |
Dec 18 - 22 |
7 |
42-44 |
Writing about food and drink, prefixes |
|
5 |
Dec 25 - 29 |
7-8 |
45-47 |
Data, tables, charts, graphs, comparative/superlative
NB Test 2 (30%) Dec 26 |
|
6 |
Jan 2 - 5 |
8 |
48-49 |
Comparing data (writing about cities)
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7 |
Jan 8 - 10 |
8 |
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Revision
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Jan 8 - 18 |
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FINAL EXAMS |
Exam questions are based on exercise types from course book. |
