ENG115 Communication Skills I Syllabus and Course Information

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A C T I V I T I E S
Academic Year: 2010-2011
Semester: Fall
Departments: All
Course Code: ENG 115
Course Name: Communication Skills I

Instructor: Ph.D. Bülent AKAT
OBJECTIVES:
A. READING SKILL
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- identify the main idea and supporting details of a text
- scan and skim the texts to find specific information
- guess unknown words in a text through the use of contextual clues and
decoding strategies
- identify referents
- recognize contextual references in a text
- make inferences
- evaluate and discuss the main ideas in a text
- distinguish facts and opinions in a text
- think critically in response to a text
- understand a wide range of content words and idiomatic expressions in a text
B. WRITING SKILL
- use linkers, transitions, and parallel structures appropriately
- develop an understanding of the sentence and paragraph
- understand and use the key concepts of paragraph writing such as topic
sentence, supporting sentences, concluding sentence, unity and coherence

- describe places, people, things and events
- state their opinions about given situations, pictures, articles
C. LISTENING SKILL
- identify main ideas
- identify details
- take notes
D. SPEAKING SKILL
- express their opinions about given topics
- participate in conversations and group discussions
REFERENCES:
New English File (Upper-Intermediate) Supplementary materials will also be provided
when required.
METHOD OF INSTRUCTION:
Lecture; question and answer; class/group discussions; communicative/meaningful
language exercises; in-and-out-of-class reading and writing tasks.
LENGTH AND PERIOD:

3 hours per week; 15 weeks and 45 hours in total
ATTENDANCE:
Students are required to attend classes and examinations. Minimum required
attendance is 70% for class sessions per semester, which makes up hours of absence
at most. A student who does not fulfill the requirements for attendance is not allowed to
take the final exam for the semester concerned and is to repeat the course. Students
who miss an exam will not be given a make-up exam unless they submit an approved
medical report or any other official document proving their excuse.
CODE OF ACADEMIC CONDUCT:
Cheating during exams or presenting someone else’s work as yours (plagiarism) will not
be tolerated under any circumstances. Disciplinary action will be taken against any
student who violates the code of academic conduct.
GRADING:
- Midterm 35%
- Final exam 50%
- Quizzes 10%
- Active participation during classes, attitude toward the course, assignments
handed in due time 5%

TENTATIVE COURSE OUTLINE
Week 1 Orientation – Course Introduction and Overview
Week 2 UNIT 1
USE OF LANGUAGE
GRAMMAR:
- Revision: Question formation, auxiliary verbs
- The..the…+comparatives
-
VOCABULARY:
- Personality adjectives (ambitious, unambitious, sincere, insincere,mature,
immature, secure, insecure etc…)
-
READING:

- “Do you believe it?”
- “Three minutes to get to know the love of your life”
- Scanning and skimming the text to find specific information
- Guessing unknown words in the text through the use of contextual clues and
decoding strategies
-
SPEAKING:
- Expressing opinion about pictures, titles
- Talking about personality traits
-
LISTENING:
- Taking notes
- Identifying details
-
WRITING:
- Describing the personality of your friend (She is the kind of person
who…, He is good at …, He tends to …, She has got/has…)
Week 3 UNIT 1
USE OF LANGUAGE
GRAMMAR:
- Present perfect simple and continuous

-
VOCABULARY:
- Illness and treatment (nosebleed, blood pressure, cough, asthma, bruise,
diarrhoea, allergy, infection, food poisoning, first aid etc…)
-
READING:
- “Can psychics really see the future?”
- Evaluate and discuss the ideas in the text
- Discover implied meanings in the text
- “Help! My friend’s choking!” “The day my little boy swallowed a tomato”
- “Get stressed, stay young”
- Reading for specific information
decoding strategies
SPEAKING:
LISTENING:
- Listening for main ideas and details
- Taking notes

Week 4 UNIT 2
USE OF LANGUAGE
GRAMMAR:
- adjectives as nouns, adjective order
VOCABULARY:
- Clothes and fashion (Opinion=old-fashioned, scruffy, stylish, trendy. Materials=a
cotton vest, linen, a denim backpack etc… Verb Phrases=dress up, hang up, fit,
match, get changed, get undressed, get dressed. Idioms=dressed to kill, fits her
like a glove, pull his socks up)
READING:
- “Do we see ourselves as we really are?”
- “Watching the English: how the English dress”
- Evaluate and discuss the main ideas in the text
decoding strategies
SPEAKING:
- Discussion on the typical characteristics of people, national stereotypes
LISTENING:

- Taking notes
Week 5 UNIT 2
USE OF LANGUAGE
GRAMMAR:
- Narrative tenses; past perfect, past perfect continuous
- So / such…… that
VOCABULARY:
- Air travel; (arrivals, check-in, passport control, customs, porter, flight attendant,
taking off, landing, turbulence etc…)
READING:
- “Air Travel: the inside story”
decoding strategies
- Identifying main ideas and supporting details in the text
- “We’re going to crash!”
decoding strategies

SPEAKING:
- Useful language: (asking for more information, showing surprise, showing
approval, showing sympathy)
LISTENING:
- Taking notes
Week 5 UNIT 2
USE OF LANGUAGE
GRAMMAR:
- adverbs and adverbial phrases
VOCABULARY:
- Incredibly short stories (Types of adverbs: Time – immediately, Manner – slowly,
Frequency – sometimes, Degree – very, Comment – luckily) (fluently, fortunately,
extremely, incredibly etc…)
READING:
- “Mini Sagas”

decoding strategies
- “Little Brother”
- Reading for pleasure
SPEAKING:
- Discussion on reading habits
LISTENING:
- Taking notes
Week 6 UNIT 3
USE OF LANGUAGE
GRAMMAR:
- Passive (all forms) it is said that…, he is thought to… etc.
VOCABULARY:
- Crime and Punishment (pickpocket, mugger, burglar, robber, shoplifter, thief,
smuggling, murderer…etc)

READING:
- “Making the punishment fit the crime”
decoding strategies
SPEAKING:
- Agreeing and disagreeing (I think it must be…, That’s what I was thinking…, I
don’t think that’s true…, Do you agree with that?)
- Giving your opinion (I think…, I don’t think…)
LISTENING:
- Taking notes
Week 7 UNIT 3
USE OF LANGUAGE

GRAMMAR:
- Future perfect and future continuous
VOCABULARY:
- Weather (drizzle, blizzard, muggy, scorching, tornado, hurricane, humid, mild,
floods, fog…etc)
READING:
- “Stormy Weather”
- Skimming and scanning for specific information
decoding strategies
SPEAKING:
- Discussion on weather conditions
LISTENING:
- Taking notes
Week 8 UNIT 3

USE OF LANGUAGE
GRAMMAR:
- Conditionals and future time clauses; likely and probably
VOCABULARY:
- Expressions with take(take after, take advantage, take risks, take notice, take
place, take part, take seriously …etc)
READING:
- “The Risk Factor”
decoding strategies
SPEAKING:
- Expressing opinions
- Comparing past and present
LISTENING:

- Taking notes
Week 9 UNIT 4
USE OF LANGUAGE
GRAMMAR:
- Unreal conditionals
VOCABULARY:
- Feelings (amazed, delighted, grateful, homesick, exhausted, furious, really fed
up, terrified… etc)
- Disasters (collide with, evacuation, survivors, paralyzed, explosion)
READING:
- “How to get out Alive”
decoding strategies
- “Escape from the Amazon”
SPEAKING:

- Discussion disasters and how humans behave when the worst thing happens
LISTENING:
- Taking notes,
Week 10 UNIT 4
USE OF LANGUAGE
GRAMMAR:
- Past modals; would rather, had better
VOCABULARY:
- Verbs often confused; notice/realize, raise/rise, argue/discuss, avoid/prevent,
remember/remind, expect/hope, seem/look…etc)
READING:
- “How I trained my husband?”
decoding strategies
SPEAKING:

LISTENING:
- Taking notes
Week 11 UNIT 4
USE OF LANGUAGE
GRAMMAR:
- Verbs of the senses (look, feel, smell, sound, taste)
VOCABULARY:
- The body (cheek, chin, eyelashes, wrinkles, neck, kneel, thumb, palm, wrist,
calf, tongue …etc)
READING:
- “Let your body do the talking”
decoding strategies
SPEAKING:
- Describing pictures

LISTENING:
- Taking notes
Week 12 UNIT 5
USE OF LANGUAGE
GRAMMAR:
- Gerunds and Infinitives
VOCABULARY:
- Music; Instruments and Musicians
- Adjectives and phrases to describe music
READING:
- “What’s your soundtrack?”
decoding strategies
SPEAKING:

- Expressing opinions about the types of music
LISTENING:
- Taking notes
Week 13 UNIT 5
USE OF LANGAUGE
GRAMMAR:
- Used to, be used to, get used to
VOCABULARY:
- Sleep (sleepy, awake, insomnia, snore, nightmares, sleeping tablets, siesta,
oversleep, jet-lagged…etc)
READING:
- “Sleep People – the dangers of sleep deprivation”
decoding strategies

SPEAKING:
- Expressing opinions about sleep
LISTENING:
- Taking notes
Week 14 UNIT 5
USE OF LANGAUGE
GRAMMAR:
- Reporting verbs; (agree to do, refuse to do, promise to do / convince smo to do,
remind smo to do / apologize for doing, insist on doing…etc)
VOCABULARY:
- Journalists and people in the media (commentator, editor, reporter), sections of
a newspaper or website (cartoon, front page, small ads, advertisement),
adjectives to describe the media (sensational, biased, objective, accurate,
censored)

READING:
- “Breaking News”
- Reading articles by two journalists who write for The Times newspaper
decoding strategies
SPEAKING:
- Expressing opinions about newspaper headlines articles
- Discussion on the media stories
Week 15 General Revision

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A C T I V I T I E S

ÇANKAYA UNIVERSITY
OFFICE OF BASIC AND ELECTIVE COURSES
ENGLISH UNIT
2009-2010 ACADEMIC YEAR
SPRING SEMESTER

COURSE SYLLABUS FOR
ENG 116 COMMUNICATION SKILLS II
For all departments
Academic Year: 2009-2010
Semester: Spring
Departments: All
Course Code: ENG 116
Course Name: Communication Skills II
Instructors: Meral Kızrak, Nilüfer Akın, Elvan Şentürk

OBJECTIVES:
A. READING SKILL
- identify the main idea and supporting details of a text
- scan and skim the texts to find specific information
- guess unknown words in a text through the use of contextual clues and
decoding strategies
- identify referents
- recognize contextual references in a text
- make inferences
- evaluate and discuss the main ideas in a text
- distinguish facts and opinions in a text
- think critically in response to a text
- understand a wide range of content words and idiomatic expressions in a text
B. WRITING SKILL
- use linkers, transitions, and parallel structures appropriately
- develop an understanding of the sentence and paragraph
- understand and use the key concepts of paragraph writing such as topic
sentence, supporting sentences, concluding sentence, unity and coherence
- describe places, people, things and events

- state their opinions about given situations, pictures, articles
C. LISTENING SKILL
- identify main ideas
- identify details
- take notes
D. SPEAKING SKILL
- express their opinions about given topics
- participate in conversations and group discussions
REFERENCES:
New English File (Upper-Intermediate) Supplementary materials will also be provided
when required.
METHOD OF INSTRUCTION:
Lecture; question and answer; class/group discussions; communicative/meaningful
language exercises; in-and-out-of-class reading and writing tasks.
LENGTH AND PERIOD:
3 hour per week; 15 weeks and 45 hours in total

ATTENDANCE:
Students are required to attend classes and examinations. Minimum required
attendance is 70% for class sessions per semester, which makes up hours of
absence at most. A student who does not fulfill the requirements for attendance is not
allowed to take the final exam for the semester concerned and is to repeat the course.
Students who miss an exam will not be given a make-up exam unless they submit an
approved medical report or any other official document proving their excuse.
CODE OF ACADEMIC CONDUCT:
Cheating during exams or presenting someone else’s work as yours (plagiarism) will not
be tolerated under any circumstances. Disciplinary action will be taken against any
student who violates the code of academic conduct.
GRADING:
- Midterm 40%
- Final exam 50%
- Active participation during classes, attitude toward the course, assignments
handed in due time 10%

TENTATIVE COURSE OUTLINE
Week 1 Orientation – Course Introduction and Overview
Week 2 UNIT 5
- Topics: 5 A -The Psychology of Music
- Learning Objectives
- To revise and extend the use of gerunds and infinitives
- Language
Grammar: Gerunds and Infinitives – Revision – Certain verbs which can
be used both in gerund and infinitive with a difference in meaning.
Vocabulary: Words related to music (instruments, musicians, etc.)

Week 3 UNIT 5
- Skills
Listening: Note-taking
Speaking: Discussing in pairs
Pronunciation: Rules for ch and y.
Reading: Matching the given in formation according to the text
Week 4 UNIT 5
Topics: 5 B -Counting Sheep
Learning objectives: To revise the use of used to to talk about repeated past
actions and to introduce be used to, get used to to talk about actions or activities which
have become or are becoming familiar.
Language:
Grammar: used to, be used to, get used to. Form and meaning. Contrast
the meanings of used to, be used to and get used to.

Vocabulary: Phrases related to sleep (oversleep, jet lagged etc)
Week 5 UNIT 5
Skills:
Listening: Correcting the text according to the listening-text
Speaking: Discussing in pairs or in groups.
Pronunciation: linking words
Reading: Finding the questions which are found in the text.
Week 6 UNIT 5
Topics: 5 C – Breaking News
Learning objectives: To revise the basic rules of reported speech and to
introduce reporting verbs.
Language:
Grammar: reporting verbs, as. Revision of basic rules. Form and
meaning. Statements, questions and imperatives with say/tell/ask. Direct speech,
reported speech and reporting verbs such as offer convince, admit, deny etc.

Vocabulary: Vocabulary items related to media: commentator,
newsreader, critic etc.
Week 7 UNIT 5
Skills:
Listening: Listening for true&false statements.
Speaking: Debating on a topic about media.
Pronunciation: Word stress of two-syllable reporting verbs.
Reading: Matching sentences with the people who said them
Week 8 UNIT 6
Topics: 6 A – Speaking to the world
Learning objectives: To consolidate and expand students’ knowledge of the
rules governing use and non-use of definite and indefinite articles.
Language
Grammar: Revision of basic rules of definite and indefinite
articles, Introducing new areas of article using such as institutions
and geographical names.

Week 9 UNIT 6
Vocabulary: Collocations: ice and lemon, backwards and forwards, more
or less, all and nothing, law and order etc.
Skills:
Listening: Numbering the pictures according to the listening text.
Speaking: Giving a presentation
Pronunciation: Sentence stress
Reading: Find the answers of a questionnaire in a reading text,
Identifying why some particular names and numbers are mentioned.
MIDTERM
Week 10 UNIT 6
Topics: 6 B –Bright lights, big city.
Learning objectives: To extend students’ knowledge of uncountable nouns and
plural nouns in the context of big cities.
Language
Grammar: Uncountable nouns and plural nouns. The
Rules of using countable and uncountable nouns. The differences
between the uncountable and countable form of the same noun.

Week 11 UNIT 6
Vocabulary: Towns and cities, places of worship (chapel, mosque etc.)
landmarks and sights (harbour, hill etc.), getting around (cable car, taxi rank etc) other
buildings (concert hall, skyscraper etc)
Skills:
Listening: Listening and matching the questions with the pictures.
Speaking: Expressing opinion
Pronunciation: Word stress in multi-syllable words.
Reading: Marking the sentences true or false according to the
information in the text.
Week 12 UNIT 6
Topics: 6 C – Euroka
Learning Objectives: To teach the rules for using a variety of quantifiers correctly
in the context of light hearted look at science. To make the students use the quantifiers
instinctively.
Language
Grammar: Quantifiers (all, every, both, either or, neither nor, all, any,
none, none of etc.)
Vocabulary: Words related to science (a physicist, a biologist, a chemist, a
geneticist, a geologist etc.)

Week 13 UNIT 6
Skills:
Listening: Answer wh- questions according to listening text.
Speaking: To lead a discussion on a topic about creative thinking. To
speak about science in pairs through the guiding questions.
Pronunciation: Changing stress in word families(scientist, science, scientific)
Reading: To identify the names of the scientist and their speeches, To
guess the vocabulary items out of context.
Week 14 UNIT 7
Topics: 7A I wish you wouldn’t ….
Learning objectives: To introduce the construction I wish… to talk about
present and past regrets and to express annoyance.
Language:
Grammar: Function and form of the structures that are used after wish.

Vocabulary: -ed and –ing adjectives (frustrated, frustrating, depressed,
depressing etc.) Expressions with go (go through, go sleep, go without etc.)
Week 15 UNIT 7
Skills:
Listening: Identifying the people and their speeches in the listening
record.
Speaking: Talking about regrets.
Pronunciation: Sentence rhythm.
Reading: Identifing the supporting ideas in a text. Guessing word
meanings out of context.
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