English Language 1

English Language 1 (AP1301T) is offered to learners at the first level of their various diploma programs in the Applied College. It is equivalent to CEFR entry-level A2 and helps learners have foundational knowledge of business English and improve their language skills in the context of a professional work environment.

The course comprises various materials including student book, teacher book, online practice, audio, and video. The lessons are based on tasks such as Talking Points, Viewpoints, and Practically Speaking.

The course aims to expand students' knowledge and ability in English language skills of reading, writing, and listening, with extra emphasis on speaking, as well as sub-skills including grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. It is designed to develop the needed linguistic and work skills quickly and effectively and prepares learners to advance their business English to ESP courses in the second semester according to their diploma specialties.

Course Information

Prerequisites

None.

Course Main Objectives

The main objective of this course is to develop learners’ language skills in general business areas such as making introductions, describing products and services, ordering goods, discussing projects and problems, talking about companies, careers, events, money, trends, competition, and travel.

Upon completion of the course, learners will be able to cope with recurring communication situations at the workplace with sustained fluency and control. They will continue to cover the skills of speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary while focusing on spoken business English by providing detailed descriptions and explanations.

Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs)

Knowledge and Understanding

• Learners will be able to know and understand advanced social and business vocabulary and structures used to initiate, engage, and sustain discourse about themselves and other people, jobs, companies, countries, office technology, food, transport, and travel.
• Learners will be able to use language skills to follow, identify, and get relevant information from a wider range of spoken and written texts at the workplace and respond to them more efficiently.

Skills

• Speaking: Learners will be able to use direct expressions, phrases, and full sentences to talk about themselves, personal information, jobs, companies, locations, technology, everyday activities, telephone communication, past and future events, trends, teams, problems, travel, bookings, schedules, and future plans.
• Listening: Students will be able to understand and follow longer spoken texts in areas of work priority such as personal information and employment, with the ability to answer questions about them.
• Grammar and Vocabulary: Learners will be able to expand their business vocabulary in areas of jobs, countries and nationalities, products and services, locations, technology, contacts, departments, employment, completion, teamwork, travel, calendars, and schedules.
• Learners will be able to demonstrate their understanding of English grammar and its usage in the following main areas: present simple with emphasis on forming questions, there is/there are, some/any, adverbs of frequency, past simple be, regular and irregular verbs, past time expressions, prepositions of place and movement, this/that/those/these, present continuous in present and future, going to, comparatives and superlatives, infinitive of purpose, and present perfect.
• Reading: Learners will be able to follow, identify, and extract different ideas, specific details, figures of speech, and verbal/nonverbal context clues from lengthier written texts with high-frequency, job-related language such as emails, messages, orders, and instructions.
• Writing: Learners will be able to write legible sentences and paragraphs in formulaic letters, notes, emails, and related texts; convey clear ideas; highlight important information; use appropriate tenses and a range of structures; use organizers and linkers; and apply writing conventions such as spelling, capitalization, and punctuation marks with reasonable precision.
• Self-learning responsibility: Students will be able to build on their learning strategies so that they can take full responsibility for their English language skill development.

Values, Autonomy and Responsibility

• Demonstrating more awareness of the cultural sensitivities of native speakers of English by using appropriate structures and expressions in wider social and business situations.
• Gaining independent and life-long learning habits to develop knowledge and skills.
• Punctuality and taking responsibility for the completion of set tasks.
• Avoidance of plagiarism and production of original work.
• Collaborative work and learning.

Student Assessment Activities