The outline of speaking skills

• Use conversation starters: introducing oneself; introducing others; small talk: family, friends, hobbies, profession, studies
• Daily use sentences/Situation Based Conversations
• Confidence Building through activities and situation
• Pronunciation practice: Stress and syllables; word stress; contracted forms; uses of a dictionary for pronunciation practice
• Summarize academic readings and lectures, and make presentations
• Pronunciation practice: Problem sounds etc…

The outline of listening Skills

• Introduction to Listening, Listen for gist and respond
• Listen for details and key words to understand specific meaning
• Listen and respond to questions and requests for personal information
• Listen to simple conversations in everyday contexts and respond
• Listening to intonation
• Listen to accuracy in language use: stress, intonation and problem sounds
• Practice production of stress, intonation and problem sounds etc…

The outline of grammar

• Developing professional vocabulary
• Using the dictionary: spelling, grammar and usage
• Acquisition of basic sentence structures from texts; analysis of the sentences in reading texts; analysis of their own sentences in their writing and speaking
• Parts of speech
• Articles and nouns
• Pronouns and determiners
• Verb Forms
• Adjectives and adverbs
• Present tense and past tense
• Active & Passive Voice
• Auxiliary Verbs
• Modal verbs
• Conjunctions and prepositions
• Reported speech
• Conditionals
• Question Tags
• Direct & Indirect Speech

The outline of reading skills

• Skimming through reading texts and determine two or more main ideas or themes
• Scanning through reading texts to understand and explain how key details support the main ideas or themes
• Understanding text structures (Reading texts to have these structures: sequencing, comparing and contrasting, relating cause and effect, problems and problem solving)
• Learning the structure of paragraphs and cohesive devices used in reading texts etc…

The outline of writing skills

• Learn the basic paragraph structure: main idea, supporting sentences, use of examples, conclusion
• Use basic sentence structures to write a paragraph; use cohesive devices to connect sentences in a paragraph; use transitional devices for cohesion and for contrast paragraph internally and between paragraphs (The above structures and devices to be consciously used in all writing tasks)
• Understand and use text structures in paragraphs: sequencing, comparing and contrasting, relating cause and effect, problems and problem solving.