This course is intended to be a pre-university course. It has been designed for the sake of helping the students -who did not pass the ELAT Exam (category1), improve their English in terms of language systems and skills.

By the end of this course, the students should be able to:

Knowledge and Understanding

-       Understand oral and written texts on different topics in English

-       Recognize different rules of grammar and pronunciation for accurate oral and written production

-       Identify different language functions

-       Reproduce information at word, sentence and text levels

Intellectual Skills

-          Listen to spoken language of different types for the sake of fulfilling simple tasks

-          Present basic information in a clear and accurate way

-          Express feelings and opinions on familiar topics using appropriate language functions

-          Engage in simple exchanges with a partner(s)

-          Read different types of texts using suitable strategies in relation to general understanding as well as text lexical and grammatical structure (parts of speech, clauses and phrases, basic sentence types, as well as sentence expansion by subordination and coordination).

-          Write different types of texts (online advice, advert/notice, notes and messages, a true story, email, a description, a CV and a paragraph) with an insistence on sentence modes (SVO, SVC, SV (M), ACTIVE vs. Passive..).

    Practical Skills

-          Classify relationships in terms of omissions, parts, organization and structure for the sake of comprehending English at word, sentence and text level through active listening and reading

-          Communicate their ideas and opinions efficiently in oral/ written modes

General and Transferable Skills

-       Apply the concepts and skills gained in this course to increase their awareness of English as a language whilst using it in their future academic studies.