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Lecturer: Ola Ahmed RefaatAcademic year 2015 / 2016

English Language - ReadingENGL 101

Introductory Lecture

Foundation year

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A general English language program should focus on the

four basic skills of reading, writing, speaking, and

listening in addition to providing instruction in grammar

and vocabulary. Sometimes a single textbook is used

because each chapter addresses multiple skills. Other

times a separate book is used for each skill area.

Whatever the material is, the main objectives for reading

remain the same.

Course Objectives:

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Students will engage in daily, meaningful reading tasks in

English class. The tasks will be based on the following

objectives:

1. Pre-read and scan academic materials to develop a sense of a text’s scope and emerging meaning.

2. Determine the author's purpose, intended audience, tone and the text’s general context.

3. Recognize and understand a work’s thesis or theme and the methods of organization used to support the thesis or develop the theme.

4. Summarize, paraphrase, synthesize ideas from what they have read.

5. Evaluate the evidence presented and state an opinion about what they have read.

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1. Fables

2. Stories

3. Guidelines for learning vocabulary.

4. Learning new words from your reading.

5. The 100 words.

6. Guessing meaning from contexts.

7. Parts of Speech.

Topics to be covered during the reading course:

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8. Words parts.

9. Recognizing letters, words, and phrases.

10. Scanning.

11. Focusing on topics.

12. Understanding paragraphs.

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The four skills of English Language (reading, writing,

speaking, and listening) are all out of 100. But because

we are teaching each skill alone, so we will assume that

each skill is out of 100. At the end of the semester the

teacher who is responsible for your group will collect all

your marks from the other English language teachers and

then divide them all by 4. Therefore, your final total mark

is now out of 100.

Grade Distribution:

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100 Mark

Quizzes 10

1st Ass. 10

2nd Ass. 10

H.W. 10

Part. 10

Attendance 10

Final 40

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Your text book for the reading skill is BASIC REDAING POWER 1 – THIRD EDITION by Linda Jeffris and Beatrice S. Mikulecky.

You can buy it from JARIR book store for example.

The Power Point Presentation (PPT) that will be covered during each class will be uploaded on the college’s website under the Foundation Year (FY) section.

You can download the lecture from the college’s website:

https://inayamedicalcollege.wordpress.com

Text Book and Lectures:

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