BS English Compulsory Course
The University of Sargodha
Grammar
Introductory/compulsory foundation course
The course aims at developing grammatical competence of the
learners to use grammatical structures in context in order to make die
experience of learning English more •meaningful. The objectives of the
Course are to (i) reinforce the basics of grammar (ii) understand
the basic meaningful units of language
(iii) Introduce the functional aspect of grammatical categories
and (iv) comprehend language use.
1. Parts of Speech
a. Types and uses of
nouns
b. Types and uses of
pronouns
c. Types and uses of
verbs
i. Finite verbs
(action, modal, helping, transitive n intransitive)
ii. No-finite verbs
(infinitives, participles, gerunds)
d Types and
uses of adverbs
e. Types and uses of
adjectives
f. Types and uses of
prepositions
g. Types and uses
of conjunctions
h Use of article
2. Common grammatical
errors and their corrections
3. Sentence structure
4. Types and
functions of sentences
5. Types and
functions of phrases
6. Types and
functions of clauses
7. Synthesis of
sentences
8. Conditional
sentences
9. Voice and change
of voice
10. Direct and indirect
narration
11. Punctuation
Language:
Comprehension & Presentation Skills
Introductory (compulsory foundation course)
Listening Skills
1. Recognizing
different phonemes
2. Recognizing
syllables
3. Listening to
isolated sentences
4. Listening to small
speech extracts
5. Managing listening
(Attending, understanding, remembering, evaluating, and responding)
6. Barriers to listening
and their remedies
7. Expressing
opinions (debating current events)
8. Oral synthesis
of thoughts and ideas
Pronunciation Skills,
1. Pronouncing English. Phonemes
2. Recognizing phone111ic symbols
3. Pronouncing words correctly
4. Understanding and practicing stress patterns
5. Practicing intonation patterns in simple sentences 6.- Conflict
resolution through panel discussion
Comprehension Skills
1. Reading strategies
2. Critical Reading
(SQ3R Method).
3. Summarizing
4. Sequencing
5. Inferencing
6. Comparing and
contrasting
7. Drawing
conclusions
8. Self-questioning
9. Relating
background knowledge.
10. Distinguishing
between fact and opinion
11. Finding the
main idea, important facts, and supporting details
12. Comprehending text
organization patterns
13. Investigating
implied ideas in a text
14. Purpose and tone of
the text
Presentation Skills
1. Features of good
presentations
2. Different types of
presentations
3. Different patterns
of introducing a presentation
4. Organizing
arguments in a presentation
5. Tactics of
maintaining interest of the audience
6. Concluding a
presentation
7. Giving suggestions
and recommendations while ending of a presentation
8. Dealing with the
questions of audience
9. Listening to
recorded presentations
Academic Writing
Introductory/compulsory foundation course
The course aims at
providing understanding of writer s’
goal of writing and to use that understanding and awareness for academic
reading and writing. The course objectives are to:
• Learn academic
writing skills
• Acquire
argumentative writing techniques
• Understand
referencing the sources
• Learn the
technical aspects of referencing
Contents:
• Academic vocabulary
• Quoting, summing and
paraphrasing texts
• Process of academic
writing
• Rhetoric: Persuasion
and identification
• Elements of Rhetoric: Text, author, audience,
purposes'; setting
• Sentence structure:
Accuracy, variation, appropriateness, and conciseness
• Sentence Skills
(choice of verbs, passive structures and nominalizations)
• Appropriate use of
active and passive voice
• Types of
writing
·
Persuasive
·
Argumentative
·
Analytical
·
Comparing
and contrasting
·
Explaining
cause and effect
·
Commentaries,
and opinion pieces
·
Personal
Profiles
·
Paragraph and
Essay Writing
·
Organization
and structure of paragraph and essay
·
Logical
reasoning
·
Transitional
devices (word, phrase and expressions)
·
Development
of ideas in writing
·
Letters
·
Of Invitation
·
Of Regrets
·
Of
Sales/persuasive letters
·
Official
Writing
·
Joining/leaving
reports
·
Notifications
·
Meeting
notices
·
Minutes of
meeting
·
Technical
and Scientific Reports
·
Styles of
documentation
·
In-text
citations
·
Plagiarism
and strategies for avoiding it
·
Issues in
scientific writing (plagiarism, authorship, ghostwriting, reproducible
research)
1. How to do a peer
review; and how to communicate with the lay public
Introduction
to English Literature
Introductory/compulsory foundation course
Course Objectives are to:
1.provide a working knowledge of the characteristics of various
literary genres.
2.develop analytical skills and critical thinking through reading,
discussion, and written assignments.
3.broaden a student's intercultural reading experience.
4.deepen a student's awareness of the universal human concerns
that are the basis for
Literary works.
5.stimulate a greater appreciation of language as an artistic
medium and of the aesthetic principles that shape literary works.
6.understand literature as an expression of human values within an
historical and social
Context.
Course contents
1. Milton: Book 9,
lines 897 - 959 (Adam's speech when she meets Eve after she has eaten the
apple)
2. Shakespeare: All
the World is a Stage
3. Browning: My last Duchess
4. Wordsworth: The Leech Gatherer
5. Keats: Ode to Autumn
6. Walter De La Mare:
Tartary
Short stories
1. The Necklace
2. The Woman Who Had
Imagination
3. Shadow in the Rose
Garden•
Essays
1. My tailor
2. Whistling of the
birds
3. One Act Play: Riders
to the sea
4. Novel :Animal Farm
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