Students will practice reading skills, especially reading for information and understanding the author’s message. Lessons will include reviewing sentence patterns, specifically those commonly found in written English and reading authentic English texts from simple to more advanced ones. Students will be able to comprehend written texts by identifying sentence structure and deriving the meaning of unknown words using context clues. How to enlarge one’s vocabulary will also be taught.
Course SyllabusThis course is designed to improve students’ writing skills. Emphasis is placed on developing the skills of writing sentences and paragraphs. Students will develop the ability to recognize different types of sentences and paragraphs and understand the role they play in various types of writing. Regular practice in writing topic sentences, supporting sentences, and full paragraphs will allow students to become skilled writers within a variety of contexts.
Course Syllabus