Intensive English for Graduate Agriculture and Nutrition  Students

Credit hours :3                                                                                          

Contact hours : 12 hours weekly 

Duration : 1 semester

Description:                                                                                   

An advanced English Language course that is student-based in nature & intended to equip students with skills & processes to think, interact & do graduate work in English in an accurate manner. As learners of English as a foreign language, students tend to approach course materials with anxiety. Through intensive practice, engaging assignments & a warm, inspiring learning environment, students begin to enjoy the language and gain confidence in using it for communication in different environments.                                           

Objectives:

* To develop student reading skills for fast & good analysis /  comprehension of advanced topics- general or nutrition related.

* To enlarge student lexis or vocabulary for oral, comprehension &  discourse use.

* To develop student ability to think in English rather than translating.

* To improve student ability to write well about a specific topic or freely

in English by following certain steps & using important sentence

structures & correct grammar and mechanics. Note taking is also

practiced in listening, reading & writing classes.

* To give students practice in listening to long lectures so that in future  they can keep up with a long speedy lecture and get its main points.

* To familiarize students with different kinds of graphs, charts and tables.

 2. Contemporary Topics 3: Advanced Listening and Note-Taking Skills. By David Beglar & Neil Murray & Michael Rost. Second Edition.

Evaluation:

Two interms and a final exam for each skill: grammar, reading,writing

and listening. A total of 50% for interms and a total of 50% for all finals