The study of grammar is viewed as a basic component of learning a foreign language and mastering key grammatical concepts helps L1 learners to achieve both accuracy and proficiency in that language. Due to such importance and based on the content of the program, the focus of this course has much been on mastering some basic grammatical concepts. Its main objective is to help learners have good grammatical competence to be able to produce accurate language either orally or in a written way related specially to their studies. So, it’s very essential to understand how rules are formed and in which cases they should be used. Through applying them in some exercises, they practise how to form them through sentences for the purpose of using them in conversations and paragraphs. This course is an online module in both delivery of lessons and learners’ participation.
This course includes grammar lessons that help learners understand how rules are formed and in which cases they should be used. The format of each lesson includes grammar lessons plus opportunities for learners to do tasks and activities in relation to each grammar point to improve their linguistic competence in English. The grammar points are to be introduced in simple sentences and short, contextualized texts related to their domain of study.
Learning Outcomes: -Increase their grammatical knowledge in English to be able to understand the meanings of sentences from simple to complex and thereby understanding both written and spoken texts.
- The ability both to recognize and produce well-formed sentences to be able to produce accurate language either orally or in a written way.
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Foreign language (English)
Suggested lessons
The present tenses
The past and perfect tense
The future
The conditional
Activities
The passive voice, with the present simple, the past simple and the future
Activities
Reported speech
Activities
Defining and non-defining relative clauses
Activities
Expressing present probability using “can”, “may”, “might”, “must”
Activities
- Teacher: zahra benamor