This is an elementary level general course for undergraduate students who register in the college of Tourism and Archaeology. The course provides integrated skills (productive and receptive) necessary for basic communication in both oral and written forms of language. The course encourages the students to develop their listening and speaking skills in useful related topics. On completion of the course students should have reasonable ability in listening and speaking.

General objectives of the course:

With completion, learners should be able to:

- inculcate the habit of listening and speaking

- develop mostly general lexical skills

-  concentrate while listening

- identify general ideas in the listening passage

- talk about themselves, families, likes and dislikes

- describe different people or things, ask and answer personal information.

Evaluation

The students will be given two mid-terms each carrying 20% of the total grade, and a final examination with 50% of the marks. The remaining 10% shall be allotted to attendance and participation.

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This is an elementary-level general course for undergraduate students who register in the college of Tourism and Archaeology. The course provides integrated skills(productive and receptive) necessary for basic communication in both oral and written forms of language. The course encourages the students to develop their reading skills in useful related topics. It encourages students to develop their reading skills as well as their lexical skills. On completion of the course students should have reasonable ability in reading and comprehension.

General objectives of the course:

With completion, learners should be able to:

- inculcate the habit of reading in English.

- develop mostly general lexical skills

-  identify and write simple sentences and develop reading and writing skills with special reference to spelling and writing short sentences.

- identify general ideas in the reading passages

- be familiar with simple sentences structure , and common English tenses.

- read and comprehend different passages in English

Evaluation

 The students will be given two mid-terms each carrying 20% of the total grade, and a final examination with 50% of the marks. The remaining 10% shall be allotted to attendance and participation.

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This course aims at developing the different writing skills necessary for writing basic paragraphs and essays. The course trains the student in the process of prewriting , revising , selecting , proofreading , and editing. The course trains the students in recognizing and producing the different sentence patterns of English.

General objectives of the Course:

With completion of the Course the students will be well trained in the following:

- taking notes skills.

- Writing sentences , paragraphs ,and essays.

- producing short coherent texts using different techniques in writing.

- grammar components and the word order for writing correct sentences.

References:

1. Oxford word-power : English – English – Arabic Dictionary

2. The Elements of Style  by William Strunk jr.& E.B.White.

Evaluation

The students will be given two mid-terms each carrying 20% of the total grade, and a final examination with 50% of the marks. The remaining 10% shall be allotted to attendance and participation.

English for Tourism ( Najm 129) 

This is an integrated course with a focus on the content area of tourism. The course integrates the four basic language skills of reading, speaking, listening and writing to develop the language needs of students in the area of tourism. The course is similar to the ESP courses which focuse on the information related to tourism activities, and how such information can be used in communicative conversational situations.

General objectives of the course:

With the completion of the course,  the students will be trained in the following:

- the four basic language skills.

-English for tourism industry.

- he grammar components.

- tourism and archaeological points related to the Saudi culture.

-synonyms and antonyms related to tourism.

- information about tourism and economy.

- producing written texts related to tourist activities such as ticket booking, flight reservations , writing tourism memos /ads , telephone conversations etc,,,

 Evaluation

The students will be given two mid-terms each carrying 20% of the total grade, and a final examination with 50% of the marks. The remaining 10% shall be allotted to attendance and participation.