ENGLISH COMPULSORY complete syllabus

  

       

	ENGLISH COMPULSORY (Written)
Paper 6			Marks 100

                   

Part: A (Functional English):

 

Objectives:  Enhance language skills and develop critical thinking.

 

Course Contents: 

Basics of Grammar: Parts of speech and use of articles, Sentence structure, active and passive voice; Practice in unified sentence, Analysis of phrase, Clause and sentence structure, Transitive and intransitive verbs; Punctuation and spelling.

Comprehension: Answers to questions on a given text.

Discussion: General topics and every-day conversation (topics for discussion to be at the discretion of the teacher keeping in view the level of students).

Listening: To be improved by showing documentaries/films carefully selected by subject teachers Translation skills: Urdu to English.

Paragraph writing: Topics to be chosen at the discretion of the teacher Presentation skills: Introduction & practice to improve presentation skills.

 

Part: B (Communication Skills):

 

Objectives:  Enable the students to meet their real life communication needs.

 

Course Contents:

Paragraph writing: Practice in writing a good, unified and coherent paragraph Essay writing: Introduction, Descriptive, narrative, discursive, argumentative  CV and job application:

Translation skills: Urdu to English.

Study skills: Skimming and scanning, intensive and extensive, and speed reading, summary and précis writing and comprehension.

Academic skills: Letter/memo writing, minutes of meetings, use of library and internet.

 

NOTE: Documentaries to be shown for discussion and review.

 

Part: C (Technical Writing and Presentation Skills):

 

Objectives:  Enhance language skills and develop critical thinking.

 

Course Contents:

Presentation skills:

Essay writing: Descriptive, narrative, discursive, argumentative

Academic writing: How to write a proposal for research paper/term paper, (emphasis on style, content, language, form, clarity, consistency).

Technical Report writing: Progress report writing:

 

NOTE: Extensive reading is required for vocabulary building