Welcome

Semester 2, Session
2023/2024
WE 023
ENGLISH 2

Prepared by:
Ms. Norhawana
 Content

• Listening

• Reading Comprehension

• Writing

• Speaking
 Course Summary
QUIZ PROJECT BASED

LISTENING WRITING
25%
READING
SPEAKING
COMPREHENSION
 LISTENING

• LEARNING STANDARD

• GENERAL INFORMATION
 LEARNING STANDARD
• Understand the information content of the majority of recorded or broadcast
audio materials on the topics of personal interest

• Understand recordings in the standard form of the language and identify

speaker viewpoints and attitudes as well as the information content

• Understand a wide range of recorded and broadcast audio material, and

identify ner points of detail including implicit attitudes

• Recognise the speaker’s point of view and distinguish this from fact and
opinion

• Understand the speaker’s point of view on topics that are of current issues
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 LEARNING STANDARD
• Follow complex lines of argument in a clearly articulated lecture

• Follow lectures, talks and reports and other forms of academic or

professional presentations

• Follow most lectures, talks and reports and other forms of academic or
professional presentation

• Understand announcements and messages on concrete and abstract topics

• Easily follow complex interactions in group discussion and debate on

abstract, complex and unfamiliar topic
 GENERAL INFORMATION
ITEM DETAILS ITEM DETAILS

Weighting 25%

Duration 60 minutes Academic and educational environment

contexts (lectures, brie ngs, talks,
Number of questions 25 Possible genre discussions, interview, conversations,
news, documentaries, broadcast audio

Number of parts 5 materials, reports, advertistment etc.)

Type of questions MCQ

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 READING
COMPREHENSION

• LEARNING STANDARD

• GENERAL INFORMATION
 LEARNING STANDARD
• Identify the main conclusions in clearly signalled argumentative texts
• Read and understand specialised articles outsides one’s eld
• Read and identify the content and relevance of news items, articles, and reports on
a wide range of professional topics

• Read and obtain information, ideas and opinions from highly specialised sources
within one’s eld

• Read correspondence relating to one’s interest and understand essential meaning

• Read and understand articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems
in which the writers adopt particular stances or viewpoints
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 LEARNING STANDARD
• Recognise di erent structures in discursive text: contrasting arguments, problem-
solution presentation and cause-e ect relationships

• Read and understand implicit as well as explicit attitudes, emotions and opinions
in a text

• Use variety of strategies to achieve comprehension, including reading for main

points; checking comprehension by using contextual clues

• Read newspaper or magazine accounts of lms, books, concert etc. and

understand the main points

• Read contemporary literary texts and non- ction written in the standard form of
the language with appreciation of implicit meaning and ideas
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 LEARNING STANDARD
• Read and understand instructions and procedures in the form of a
continuous text, for example in a manual

• Make a basic inferences or predictions about text content from headings,

titles or headlines

• Deduce the probable meaning of unknown words in a written text

• Identify unfamiliar words from the context on topic’s related to one’s eld
and interests

• Exploit di erent types of connectors and the roles of key paragraphs in the
overall organisation, in order to better understand the argumentation in a text
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 GENERAL INFORMATION
ITEM DETAILS

Weighting 25%

Duration 60 minutes

Number of questions 25

Number of texts 5

Type of questions Multiple choice questions (MCQ)

Academic and educational environment contexts

Possible genre (lectures, brie ngs, talks, news, correspondence, documentaries, announcements,
advertisement etc.)
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 WRITING

• LEARNING STANDARD

• GENERAL INFORMATION
 LEARNING STANDARD

• Write a detailed description of a complex process

• Evaluate di erent ideas or solutions to a problem

• Use idiomatic expressions and colloqualisms in correspondence and

other written communications
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 GENERAL INFORMATION
ITEM DETAILS

Brochure - 15%
Weighting Teamwork - 5%
Lifelong learning - 5%

Duration 3 weeks

Number of task 1

* Group work (3-5 students per group)

Type of task * A brochure promoting a product / service or an idea
* Length : About 800 words
 GENERAL INFORMATION
ITEM DETAILS
*Name of product / service / idea
*Functions / type of services
*Product speci cations / description of services / ideas
*How to operate
*Target group
Task description
*Relevant images
*Price
*Contact
*Warranty
*Testimonies
Additional description Need to include information taken from 2 references / sources

End product Printed / Digital brochure (e.g. ip book / PDF / Google Docs etc.)
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ITEM DETAILS

Required Language / Persuasive language, cohesive devices, emotive vocabulary / expressions / register,
Elements / Aspects elements of promotion, images / graphics
 TEAMWORK ( 5% )
ITEM DETAILS

Ability to produce draft(s)

Aspects to be
assessed Ability to work together in completing the writing task

Description of Task Write drafts and work together on a brochure promoting a product / service / idea

Learning Standard Evaluate di erent ideas or solutions to a problem

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 LIFELONG LEARNING ( 5% )
ITEM DETAILS

Ability to Use appropriate and relevant references

Aspects to be
Ability to use accurate format in writing references
assessed
Ability to articulate references in writing

Learning Standard Synthesise information and arguments from a number of sources

2 texts / references / sources (about 300-500 words per reference / source)

References Video / audio references : Recommended length is between 5-10 minutes

References have to be provided as proof (printed or digital version

 SPEAKING

• LEARNING STANDARD

• GENERAL INFORMATION
 LEARNING STANDARD
• Give a clear, systematically developed presentation, with highlighting of signi cant
points and relevant supporting detail

• Take a series of follow up questions with a degree of uency and spontaneity which
poses no strain for either oneself or the audience

• Develop a clear argument, expanding and supporting one’s points of view at some
length with subsidiary points and relevant examples

• Give a clear, prepared presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a

particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various
options

• Convey degrees of emotion and highlight the personal signi cance of events and
experiences
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ITEM DETAILS

Weighting 25%

Duration 10 minutes per student

Number of task 1

Group work (3-5 students per group)

Type of task
Individually assessed

Presentation 30 - 50 minutes per group

Promotional talk of a product / service or an idea

Task description
It is an extension of the writing task
 Assessment

Assessment is based on 4 criteria :

Task Ful lment (25 marks)

Delivery (25 marks)

Creativity (15 marks)

Language & Organization (25 marks)

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