Bel 111
Bel 111
Course Contents:
Verbal Activities: Introducing oneself, situational conversation, making dialogue, describing person,
place and situation.
Reading Activities: Comprehension
Writing Activities: Letter and application; Paragraph and report writing
Sentence Types: Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, Exclamatory, Simple, Compound and Complex.
Tense, Voice Change, Narration
Clauses: Noun Clause, Adjective Clause and Adverbial Clause. Nominal Group.
Head Nouns: Countable and Uncountable, Articles, Singular and Plural, Positive, Comparative and
Superlative.
Pre-modifiers of Noun: Determiners, Articles, Pronouns, Numerals, Quantifiers, Adjectives, Adverbs,
Noun Adjectives.
Post-modifiers of Noun: Preposition, Prepositional Phrases, Appositives, Adverbs, Participles,
Infinitives and Conjunctions.
Verbal Group: Head Verb, Transitive, Intransitive, Auxiliaries-Primary and Modal, Tense Systems,
Conditionals, Questions, Subject Verb-Agreement, Vocabulary- Synonyms, Antonyms, Homophones.
Course Learning Outcomes with Teaching Learning Methods and Assessment Techniques:
1. To make the students able Ability to understand Lecture, audio-visual Listening test
to understand some easy easy English aids
sentences and dialogues pronunciation and
to recognize the conversations.
pronunciation or directed
words.
2. To make the students able Ability to identify the Lecture, interactive Written test
to skim and scan for main main idea(s) and discussion, reading
ideas, use graphic specific details in the practice
organizers to better text
understand a text and
develop reading speed
4. To make the students able Ability to avoid basic Lecture, interactive Written test (fill in
to have some knowledge grammatical errors, discussion, the blanks,
on basic English understand simple matching jumble
grammar: vocabulary, reading texts. words, short
article, capitalization etc. question answers
etc.)
5. To make the students able Ability to develop Lecture, key-words Written test
to write simple English free hand writing writing, story
correctly. skill. completion,
summarization,
spelling, image
illustration and
listening and
speaking aids
6. To make the students able Ability to write Lecture, sample Written test
to write different forms of application and report writing practice on
formal and informal correctly. given example.
writing.
Recommended Readings:
1. Raymond Murphy, Intermediate English Grammar
2. Donn Byrne, Basic Comprehension Passages
3. Grant Taylor, English Conversation Practice
4. T.J.Fitkides,Common Mistakes in English
5. John Days & Andrew Bennett, Developing Reading and Writing Skills
6. Lizand John Soars, Headway (Elementary Students' Book)
7. Jhon Days & Andrew Bennett ‘Developing Reading & Writing Skills’
8. Oxford Dictionary