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ENG101

Functional English

Course ID
ENG101
Department
English Language Development Centre
Level
Undergraduate
Instructor
Semester
2nd Semester
Credit
3.0

After completion of this course each student would be able to:

  • write varied contents including official letters, e-mails, and applications and summarize the texts using appropriate grammatical mechanisms and cohesive devices.
  • apply skimming, scanning and detailed reading and listening strategies to understand gist of the text/conversation.
  • demonstrate their skills using English language to express their point of view, show arguments and deliver a presentation in a real life situations.

The Functional English is a compulsory course and has been offered by the Department of English Language Development Centre.

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Course Learning Outcomes

CLO No.

Description

Taxonomy Level

Linking to PLOs

CLO-1

write varied contents including official letters, e-mails, and applications and summarize the texts using appropriate grammatical mechanisms and cohesive devices.

C2

12

CLO-2

apply skimming, scanning and detailed reading and listening strategies to understand gist of the text/conversation.

C3

2

CLO-3

demonstrate their skills using English language to express their point of view, show arguments and deliver a presentation in a real life situations.

C3

10

Course structure and modules

Course Contents:

  • Reading:

Interactive Reading, Apply the skills of surveying, skimming, scanning and detailed reading and identify topic sentence.

  • Writing:

Audience related writing, composition of sentences, paragraphs, short descriptive writing, précis and letter and application, identify contextual clues with the help of cohesive devices.

  • Listening:

Collect gist and important points from listening text or any other oral source viz. lecture, speech or conversation.

  • Speaking:

Taking part in different real life situations, answer question, argue and explain one’s point of view, ask for information, turn taking techniques and presentation skills.

  • Grammar:

Mechanics of English language, punctuation, conservation words, tenses and sentence structure.

  • Vocabulary:

Matching vocabulary items with their corresponding definitions, identification odds items out of a list of vocabulary items, classification of vocabulary items in lexical sets.

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