LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT I

1.1 Listening to and articulating English sounds

Vowels/diphthongs
Consonants
The Phonemic Chart/ symbols
Phonemic spelt word/sentences

1.2 Stress and intonation
Stressed and unstressed syllables
Rising and falling intonation

1.3 Listening skills
Eliciting specific information
Differentiating fact from opinion
Summarising
Synthesising ideas
Inferring speakers attitudes and moods
Evaluating speakers attitude and stand
Identifying logical reasoning
Identifying main ideas and supporting details in non-contextualised speech

1.4 Social conventions in interactions
Social greetings and responses
Identifying colloquialism

1.5 Negotiating skills
Turn taking
Interrupting
Agreeing and disagreeing
Suggesting
Expressing opinions or arguments, etc.

1.6 Effective Speaking
Questioning Technique
Types of Questions
Creative, critical, factual and interpretive questions and respond
appropriately in real life conversations such as interviews and meetings.

1.7 Speech Acts
Linguistic and paralinguistic language
Voice modulation/ projection
Persuasion and argument

1.8 Listen critically and respond appropriately in a variety of social and academic
contexts (ask and answer creative, critical, factual and interpretive questions)
Forums
Interviews
Speeches (taped and live)
Radio and TV programmes such as news broadcast, documentaries, etc.
Movies
2.1 Reading different text types and forms
different types of text forms
- linear and non-linear
- printed and multimedia
different types of texts
- narrative
- descriptive

2.1 Reading different text types and forms
different types of texts
- persuasive
- argumentative
- expository
2.2 Lexical resource in context
Vocabulary development
Diction authors word choice
Connotation and denotation
2.3 Critical reading
Differentiating between facts and opinion
Writers mood, purpose and point of view
Detecting bias and propaganda
Evaluating arguments

3.1 Writing thesis statement
Topic sentences
Supporting sentences

3.2 Paragraph writing
Introduction, body, conclusion
Cohesion and coherence

3.3 Writing essays representing different text types
Narrative
Descriptive

3.3 Writing essays representing different text types
Argumentative
Persuasive
Expository

3.4 Writing critically for different rhetorical purposes
Movie reviews
Reports

3.4 Writing critically for different rhetorical purposes
Speeches
Journals