BS English Literature/MS English Literature/PhD English Literature Islamia University Bhawalpur (IUB)

The Islamia University of Bahawalpur

Department of English Literature

Course title

Course Code

Credit Hours

English I (Functional English)

ELL101

3（3+0）

Course Description:

The course is designed to help students take a deep approach in reading and writing academic texts

which involve effective learning strategies and techniques aimed at improving the desired skills. The

course consists of two major parts: the 'reading section' focuses on recognizing a topic sentence,

skimming, scanning, use of cohesive devices, identifying facts and opinions, guess meanings of

unfamiliar words. The 'writing section' deals with the knowledge and use of various grammatical

components such as, parts of speech, tenses, voice, narration, modals etc. in practical contexts.

Course Objectives:

• To enable students to identify main/topic sentences.

• To teach them to use effective strategies while reading texts.

• To acquaint them with cohesive devices and their function in the text.

Course Contents:

Mid-Term Syllabus

Reading Skills

Reading skills and reading techniques

Organization of the text

Alm and function of the text

Organization of the text: different thematic patterns

Non-linguistic and Linguistic response to the text

Reading skills exercises

Final-Term Syllabus

Writing Skills

Parts of Speech

Phrase, clause and sentence structure

Tenses: past, present, and future tenses

Modals

Use of active and passive voice

Reported Speech

For Mid term:

Week 1

Day 1: Language Skills (Listening, Speaking,

Reading, and Writing)

Listening Skills (Listening: Introduction, Barriers to

Listening)

Listening Skills (Kinds of Listening and Techniques

for Effective Listening)

Day 2: Reading Skills (Skimming and scanning).

Inference, previewing, predicting, anticipation,

inding relations within the sentence,