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Advanced Grammar for C1 Students

This document outlines the course syllabus for an Advanced Grammar C1 course. The course is worth 2 credits and requires students to have passed two previous Grammar B2 courses. Over the course, students will systematize English sentence structures and learn about tenses, modals, passive forms, parts of speech, and other grammatical concepts. Assessment includes quizzes, projects, and a final exam testing areas like fill-in-the-blank, error correction, and sentence transformations. Attendance is required and cheating is prohibited. The tentative schedule covers 17 units over 11 weeks.

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Advanced Grammar for C1 Students

This document outlines the course syllabus for an Advanced Grammar C1 course. The course is worth 2 credits and requires students to have passed two previous Grammar B2 courses. Over the course, students will systematize English sentence structures and learn about tenses, modals, passive forms, parts of speech, and other grammatical concepts. Assessment includes quizzes, projects, and a final exam testing areas like fill-in-the-blank, error correction, and sentence transformations. Attendance is required and cheating is prohibited. The tentative schedule covers 17 units over 11 weeks.

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VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY-HO CHI MINH CITY

UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

FACULTY OF ENGLISH LINGUISTICS & LITERATURE

COURSE SYLLABUS
I. Course Title: ADVANCED GRAMMAR C1
II. Course Code: NVA003.3
III. Course Credits: 2 credits (Theory: 1 credit, Practice: 1 credit)
IV. Course Prerequisites: Students are required to have passed the two courses in Grammar B2.
V. Course Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to
 Systemize all sentence types and structures in English
 Distinguish the uses of English tenses and verb forms
 Examine all the complex and diversified ways of expressing meanings by using modals
 Recognize and distinguish the uses and forms of passive form
 Recognize and classify English nouns
 Examine all the complicated uses of English articles, explain and practice the use of articles in all
kinds of texts
 Distinguish between determiners and pronouns and their uses
 Recognize and classify adjectives, acquire all the rules about fixed and unfixed positions of adjectives
to express the proposition
 Recognize adverbs, examine the meaning and function of all the types of adverbs and the positions of
adverbs in texts
 Distinguish verbal complements
 Distinguish different kinds of prepositions and adverb particles, recognize all the forms of phrasal
verbs, emphasize practice to use prepositions and phrasal verbs skillfully
 Apply acquired knowledge into exercises and language production
 Justify the uses of acquired grammatical structures in given and self-produced texts
 Develop key transferable skills and attitudes

VI. Texts and Materials


Required texts and materials
 Yule, G. (2009). Oxford practice grammar: Advanced. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
 Yule, G. (2009). Oxford practice grammar advanced: Supplementary exercises with keys.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Supplementary materials and free online courses
 Hewings, M (2006). Advanced grammar in use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 Swan, M (2005). Practical English usage. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
 Oxford Online English:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jul2urONzOQ&list=PLD6t6ckHsruY_i7_rZhKcRBmXDdawiq
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 Cambridge Dictionary-Grammar: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/
 Verb tenses & Passives: https://www.coursera.org/learn/verb-passives?specialization=advanced-
grammar-punctuation
 Conjunctions, Connectives & Adverb Clauses: https://www.coursera.org/learn/conjunctions-
connectives-adverb-clauses?specialization=advanced-grammar-punctuation
 Noun Clauses & Conditionals: https://www.coursera.org/learn/noun-clauses-
conditionals?specialization=advanced-grammar-punctuation
 Advanced Grammar & Punctuation Project: https://www.coursera.org/learn/noun-clauses-
conditionals?specialization=advanced-grammar-punctuation

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VII. Assessment Scheme

Assessment Tasks Points Percent Score Percent of Note


Total Grade
A1. Quiz 1 10 points 35% Midterm 30% To be computed
A2. Quiz 2 35% by the University
A3. Project 1 15% Admission Office
A4. Project 2 15%
100%
A4. Final test 10 points 100% Final 70%
100%
Passing grade: 5/10
VIII. Exam Information
GAP FILLING (20 items/2 pts)
ERROR CORRECTION (10 items/2 pts)
VERB FORMS (20 items/2 pts)
WORD TRANSFORMATION (20 items/2 pts)
SENTENCE TRANSFORMATION (10 items/2 pts)

IX. Course Policies


 Attendance will be checked every class meeting either in terms of short quizzes, activity
participation or roll calling. Students who are absent for more than 20% of the total number
of class periods will be forbidden from taking the final examination.
 Penalty for lateness or skipping some periods may vary according to lecturers’ policies.
 Absence should be informed to lecturers before or after the day. Students are responsible for
getting the information they have missed. There are no make-ups for in-class writing, quizzes, the
midterm, or the final exam.
 The use of mobile phones and/or laptops for personal purposes without lecturers’ permission is
forbidden during class time.
 Cheating and plagiarism are severely punished.
X. Tentative schedule
Session Content
1 Unit 1: Sentences Unit 2: Tenses 1
2 Unit 2: Tenses 2 Unit 3: Modals 1
3 Unit 3: Modals 2 Unit 4: Negatives & Questions
4 Unit 5: Passive voice Unit 6: Articles & nouns
5 Review QUIZ 1 (Units 15)
Unit 7: Determiners & quantifiers Unit 8: Pronouns, subsitution & ellipsis
6
Project 1 Submission
7 Unit 9: Adjectives & adverbs Unit 10: Prepositions
8 Unit 11: Infinitives & gerunds Unit 12 & 13: Reporting & Noun clauses
9 Unit 14: Relative clauses Unit 15: Conditionals
Unit 16: Adverbial clauses Unit 17: Connectors & focus structures
10
QUIZ 2 (Units 115)
Review Mock tests
11
Project 2 Submission

Designed by
Department of English Language Skills

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