Course Name	MA Intensive English
Course Information	Course Code	Course No.	Course Level	Credit Hours	Prerequisite(s)
Course Information	1711-1103		First	20
Course Track	University Requirement College Requirement Specialized Core Electives
Course Description: This is an intensive English language bridging course for the post-graduate students of science, intended to enhance and improve the language competency of the students to international standards. This course is designed to prepare the students to use English language in their Master’s Course. This course intends to develop language competency in four basic language skills i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing, besides giving insights into fundamentals of grammar and core IELTS vocabulary. The material of the course is meticulously selected from the internationally recognized English language testing system i.e. IELTS in order to introduce, train, and develop the students’ competency in using English language in academics. This is a one-year course and is delivered in four quarters of 9/8/9/8 weeks each quarter respectively i.e. (34 weeks). The number of contact hours is 20 per week. Note: At the end of the course, it is mandatory for the students to take the IELTS test conducted by the British Council and get 5.5 band score to secure admission in the Master’s Course. This Intensive Course is just a preparatory program for the IELTS.
Course outcome: By the end of the quarter, the students are able to: Listening Outcomes: • Identify key vocabulary while listening. • Hear and comprehend descriptive language about people and places. • Predict content by seeing pictures and drawings. • Listen strategically for the main idea. • Identify detailed information in a listening task. • Use prior knowledge to understand content. • Listen for speakers’ opinions. • Listen for reasons. • Correctly identify numbers in a listening task Speaking Outcomes: • Make simple descriptive statements about people, places and things. • Speak simple factual statements about weather, countries and sports. • Speak simple statements comparing ideas and things. • Speak in compound sentences using coordinating conjunctions. • Give short speech about a famous person or place. • Describe photographs using the appropriate vocabulary. • Choose the right person for a job and describe various careers • Ask and give opinions. • Discuss ideas in a group. • Give a report and talk about results. Reading Outcomes: By the end of the quarter, the students are able to: • Scan for numbers & to predict content . • Understand key vocabulary from the text. • Make predictions about the text. • Read for main ideas. • Read for detail. • Scan to find information. • Work out meaning. • Scan to predict meaning. • Make inferences. • Preview text. • Recognize text type and its source. • Skim text. • Use visuals to predict content. • Understand discourse. • Use your knowledge to predict the content. Writing Outcomes: By the end of the quarter, the students are able to: • Use Capital letters and full stop efficiently • Write descriptive sentences with proper vocabulary and grammar • Describe the place where you live • Organize a paragraph into a topic sentence, supporting sentences and a concluding sentence • Describe a festival or special event • Describe education by generating ideas using wh- questions • Write a one-sided opinion paragraph-Persuasive paragraph • Write introductory sentences for descriptive paragraphs about a graph • Describe a graph using collocations • Organize events in a process in the correct order • Eliminate irrelevancies • Write a process paragraph using linkers and correct prepositions of movement
Assessment Policy	Assignment	10%	Quiz	50%	Lab	---	Project	---%
Assessment Policy	Midterm	0%	Final	40%	Others	-	Project	---%
Textbook	Unlock Level 1 Listening and Speaking Skills Author: N. M. Scott (Listening and Speaking) ISBN 9781107682320, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014 Unlock Level 1 Reading and Writing Skills Author: Sabina Ostrowska ISBN 9781107613997, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014 Unlock Level 2 - Listening and Speaking Skills Author: Stephanie Diamond Bayir (Listening and Speaking) ISBN 9781107682320, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014 2. Unlock Level 2 Reading and Writing Skills Author: Richard O’Neill ISBN 9781107614000, Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014
References	*ONLINE WORKBOOK for practice Supplementary Materials/Books: 1. Fundamentals of English Grammar, 3rd Edition Author: Betty Schrampfer Azar Publisher: Pearson Education, 2003