Location

Community Services & Continuing Education - Alexandria

Objectives

• Develop students' ability to skim for main ideas and scan for the details.- Build academic vocabulary and make use of contextual clues to infer meanings of unfamiliar words from context.- Make inferences and predictions based on comprehension of a text.- Enhancing students reading skills by exposing them to a wide variety of reading materials, also by reading aloud with fluency. - Widen students’ vocabulary by teaching them both specific words using rich contexts provided by authentic texts rather than in isolated vocabulary drills. - Improving listening and speaking skills by developing understanding of short texts containing features of authentic native speaker speech. - Developing students’ writing skills by using pre -writing strategies to plan the writing ideas then writing effective and coherent paragraphs.- Enhancing students reading skills by exposing them to a wide variety of reading texts suitable to their age.- Expanding vocabulary of the students by in

Outcomes

By the end of this course, Students can do the following:- Summarize and paraphrase information in a text. - Distinguish main ideas from specific details.- Write effective and coherent paragraphs.- Use a variety of accurate sentence structures.- Improve their speaking ability in English both in terms of fluency and comprehensibility.- Retell stories including key details.- Distinguish main ideas of a given text.- Develop reading speed- Answer their own and their peers questions by connecting ideas.- Can introduce and give personal details.- Read different reports about jobs and identify key phrases describing people using the present tense- Retell stories including key details.- Exchange information about their families- Ask and answer questions about what people can do.- Write descriptive texts with guidance and support from their teachers.- Express ideas in proper sequence - Use polite expressions in appropriate ways

Course Contents

Book used in this level: Starlight :- The Mystery Island- Describing People- Fun in the Kitchen.English in Common 2:- Getting to Know you- Work and Leisure- Your Free TimeEnglish in Common 2:- Super Doctor- Entertainment- Musical tests