King AbdulAziz University
English Language Center
Course Description
General English (ELCS 101) Second Semester (Spring 2008)
Section: SA, Class Meetings: 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a. m. Days: ST, 10 – 11 S. M. W.
Location of Class Meetings: C066 Build.7
Instructor’s Infromation:
Name: Mrs. Maimouna Melibari
Email: mmelibari@kaau.edu.sa
Office hours: by appointment
Office no: building 12 Villa 2, Rm. 12
Course Description (general aim of the course):
This course introduces the reading, writing and grammar skills in the upper intermediate or
tertiary level. The course aims to provide students with both extensive and intensive practice
in the effective and proper use of the broad and specific reading and writing skills related to
the content of the course books. This course also focuses on the rules of grammar in a variety
of contexts.
Text Books Required:
1- Interaction 1 Reading. Middle East ed. (Gold Edition) Berkshire - United Kingdom, McGraw
Hill Companies, 2007 by Elaine Kirn and Pamela Hartmann.
2- Interaction 1 Writing: sentence development & introduction to the paragraph. Middle East ed.
(Gold Edition) Berkshire - United Kingdom, McGraw Hill Companies, 2007 by Cheryl Pavlik
and Margaret Keenan Segal.
3- Interaction 1 Grammar. Middle East ed. (4th Edition) New York – U. S. A. McGraw Hill
Contemporary, 2004 (reprinted in 2007) by Elaine Kirn, Darcy Jack, and Jill K. O’Sullivan.
The above text books are available at Jareer Bookstore branches all over Jeddah. Items 1
through 3 have the ELC logo on the cover except for the Interaction 1 Grammar. Photocopying of
any book is not recommended and not allowed.
On- line Resource:
http//:mhhe.com/interactionsmosaic
Method of instruction:
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Teacher presentation
Pair work
Role play
Group work
Individual work
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of the course students are expected to demonstrate the ability to do the
skills in the following areas:
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Reading Skills:
 Recognizing reading structure in a textbook
 Recognizing main ideas
 Recognizing supporting details
 Recognizing topics
 Getting meaning from context
 Identifying cause and effect
 Recognizing titles and paragraph topics
 Main – idea questions for paragraph topics
 Recognizing one- or two – sentence statements of the main idea
 Matching paragraph titles with topics
 Identifying paragraph and whole reading topics
 Identifying main ideas by asking questions
 Using punctuation to recognize supporting details
 Skimming for topics and main ideas
 Recognizing topics in reading about history
 Using a timeline to take notes on time and time order
 Skimming to find time and place in history
Writing Skills:
 Using a vocabulary chart
 Developing vocabulary in a semantic field: daily activities, words to describe food, direction
words, life events
 Using an illustration to generate vocabulary
 Generating vocabulary through discussion
 Generating new vocabulary through free writing
 Developing vocabulary in a semantic field according to the topic of each chapter
Grammar Skills:
 The verb Be
 The simple present tense
 Personal pronouns and Possessive adjectives, and pronouns
 There is/There are
 Questions with whose and possessive nouns
 The present continuous tense and non action verbs
 Modal verbs: can, May, Might, and will
 Nouns and expressions of quantity
 Comparisons
 Modal verbs: requests, offers, and permission
 Future verb forms
 Phrasal verbs
 Prepositions of place and time
 Articles
 The simple past tense (regular verbs): used to
 The simple past tense (irregular verbs): the past tense of the verb Be
 Connecting words
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Course Policies:
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Students are responsible for whatever mentioned in the class; missing classes might affect your test
performance and scores.
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Always attend lectures and be punctual, habitual tardiness will be penalized.
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All assignment to be handed on the assigned day.
16 times absence (25% of attendance) forbids the students from attending finals unless an acceptable
medical report is presented according to university regulations.
Absolutely no make up for any exam.
10 minutes at the beginning of lectures are for graded oral questions and answers which mean that
failing to show in class on time subjects you in losing participation marks.
Class participation is a very important part of the course; your final grade will be influenced by your
level of participation.
Each student must have her own note book for weekly journal writing.
First quiz is on chapter 1, 2, the second quiz is on the chapters 3, 4, and the final questions will be
50% on chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 50% will be on chapter 5.
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Home works:
Home assignments should be submitted in the following form:
 It should be written on an (A4) size paper and absolutely nothing else.
 All work should be computerized (done on a computer).
 It should be neat and presentable.
 The student's name, Computer No. and the section should be clearly written at the top right side of the
paper.
 The font shouldn't exceed 14.
 Only hard copy of the homework assignment is accepted.
 Homework must be submitted on - time.
Home assignments other than the mentioned above are absolutely not acceptable.
Grading:
Class participation & HW:
Quiz 1:
Quiz 2:
Final:
Total:
10 points
25 points
25 points
40 points
100 points
Extra Points (Bonus):
Extra points will be given for best performance in all homework assignments. Extra points will be worth 2
extra points.
Academic Integrity:
Honesty in all academic work is expected from every student. All answers whether in class work, homework,
and examinations must be student’s own answer. Any written work must be the student’s original work.
Best wishes for a successful year.
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