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I Course Outline Functional English

The Functional English course aims to enhance students' written and spoken English skills, essential for business graduates. It focuses on developing effective communication, reading comprehension, vocabulary building, writing skills, and grammar. The course includes specific objectives for listening, reading, vocabulary, writing, and language structure to prepare students for higher education and professional environments.

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I Course Outline Functional English

The Functional English course aims to enhance students' written and spoken English skills, essential for business graduates. It focuses on developing effective communication, reading comprehension, vocabulary building, writing skills, and grammar. The course includes specific objectives for listening, reading, vocabulary, writing, and language structure to prepare students for higher education and professional environments.

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FUNCTIONAL ENGLISH

Course OBJECTIVES :
The command over written and spoken English is now considered a necessity for
the business graduates. It equips them with necessary skills and aptitude to deal
successfully with the complex and challenging situations, arising out of inter-personal,
and organizational dealings. This subject inevitably demands a systematic and
comprehensive study of the related topics. The main objectives of this course are:

To develop the ability to communicate effectively. To help students develop the ability
to read effectively and independently and intermediate proficiency level reading text.
To help students acquire language skills progressively. To help students develop
intellectual abilities. To make the experience of English language teaching and learning
more interesting. To help students develop their English language proficiency to a level
from where they can pursue higher education through the medium of English.
Specific Objectives:

A. Listening/Speaking Skills
To develop the ability to:
a. Comprehend spoken English inside and outside the classroom.
b. Express ideas/opinions on topics related to student’s lives and experiences.

B. Reading (Comprehension) Skills


To enable the students to read a text:
a. To identify main idea/topic sentences.
b. To find specific information
c. To distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information
d. Prediction
e. Recognizing and interpreting cohesive devices.(link words)
f. Recognizing and interpreting the tone and attitude of the author.
g. Interpreting charts and diagrams.
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h. Recognizing and interpreting the rhetorical organization of a text.
i. Distinguishing between facts and opinions.

C. Vocabulary Building skills


a. To guess the meaning of unfamiliar words through:
I. Context clues
II. Prefixes and suffixes
III. Idioms and phrasal verbs
IV. Logical connectors
b. To develop the ability to use a dictionary to:
I. Find out meaning of different words.
II. Check spellings
III. Check/find pronounciation of unfamiliar words.

D. Writing Skills
To be able to write:
a. Formal and informal letters
b. Job applications and curriculum vitae
c. Summaries
d. Paragraphs and Essays
e. Punctuation
E. Language structure/Grammar
I. Tenses
II. Prepositions
III. WH Questions and Yes/No Questions
IV. Voice (Active & Passive)
V. Direct to Indirect/Reported Speech
VI. Articles
VII. Conditionals

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E. Grammar and Composition
Eastwood, John, Oxford Practice Grammar, New Edition with tests and Answers,
Oxford University Press, 2004.

Reading Text
Howe, D.H. Kirkpatrick. T.A. and Kirkpatrick, D.L. Oxford English for Undergraduates,
Oxford University Press, 2004.

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