English Language 1 ( ENGL 111)

Course Description:

This course provides trainees with a solid foundation of basic sentence form and function. It concentrates on grammatical structures, vocabulary expressions often used in technical and professional contexts.

General Objective:

The course aims to consolidate student's previous knowledge of English, and bring it up to a pre- intermediate level which enables them continue courses related to their particular majors.

Detailed Objectives: By the end of the course, trainees will demonstrate their abilities to do the following:

1. Communicate using work and major-related technical terms and vocabulary.
2. Understand simple dialogues, instructions, and descriptions about simple technical topics, objects and processes
3. Read various types of technical texts and charts with reasonable comprehension using a variety of reading skills such as skimming, scanning, and reading for details.
4. Utilize all available information such as graphs, charts, diagrams, and pictures to understand texts.
5. Write short guided texts using relevant vocabulary, basic sentence structure, reasonably correct spelling, and punctuation.

Required Equipment:

1. Computer device with all its accessories for the trainee
2. Provide a virtual platform for communication.
3. MS-Word / MS-Excel / PowerPoint