The aim of this course English Grammar A is to acquaint students with English grammar. At this stage, students will learn the following: PRONOUNS (types and function) NOUNS (types, function and form of noun), ADJECTIVES (descriptive and proper adjectives), ADVERBS (types and position), PREPOSITIONS (place and time), ARTICLES (the basic usage), PRESENT TENSE (simple and progressive), PAST TENSE (simple and progressive), SIMPLE FUTURE and PASSIVE VOICE for the aforementioned tenses.

This description of the course provides a concise summary of the main characteristics of the course and the learning outputs expected of the student to achieve them, demonstrating the learning available. They should be linked to a description of whether they have maximized the opportunities of the programme.

This module aims to develop students’ basic writing skills with particular focus on sentence types, structures, and function. It begins with the student knowing the types of sentences, correcting sentences, punctuations

This aim of this course is to introduce students to Phonetics as well as its definitions and types. Students will also study the main organs of speech which are used to produce different sounds. Furthermore, consonants, vowels and diphthongs will be introduced in details with some examples for each one. The course also shows the students how each sound is articulated and transcribed phonetically.

This is a two credit hour course that focuses mainly on listening skill and the difference between hearing and listening. Recognize the three basic skills of listening. The difference between hearing and listening. Define barriers to listening. Summarize listening habits. Describe irritating listening habits. Recognize body language. Describe listening and lectures. Summarize activities that improve listening skills. It also focuses on vocabulary building, grammar and pronunciation skills. The course aims at developing students’ skills in listening and explains the ins and outs of what good listening skills consist of, why they are important and how you can improve them. The key objectives of this course are to enable students to determine what type of listener they are, provides basic skills of listening, barriers to listening, listening habits, body language, and activities to improve listening habits. Students will learn the importance of physical attributes, active listening, attitude, perception, bias, language barriers, key gestures, and even how to take good notes.. The course learning outcomes are students will be able to distinguish spoken expressions All words have multiple sound shapes, flavours and colours, Words occur in clusters (word clusters) rhythmic groups and Each component of the cluster or group influences the sound shapes of its neighbours

This course is designed to provide intermediate non-native speakers of English with a knowledge of grammatical structures that improves academic communication. Emphasis is on using intermediate grammatical structures in meaningful contexts through exercises integrating the use of newly acquired structures with previously learned structures. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate improved proficiency, comprehension and grammatical accuracy. • Students will have the ability to identify academic terminology related to English grammar. • Students will have the ability to apply the appropriate us of the English verb system, modals, the English article system, and subject-verb agreement in context in order to be able to produce sentences using correct form and function and to increase reading comprehension. • Students will be able to distinguish between count and non-count nouns and active and passive voice and will have the ability to use them appropriately. • Students will know how to recognize global and local grammar errors in writing and speaking. • Students will know how to apply self-editing strategies for the improvement of their academic writing and speaking skills

This module takes students step by step on translation, provides students with basic translation concepts such as language, translation as communication process, sight translation, interpreting , tyoes of written translation, translator, text, context, source text, target text, cltcuer, machine translationand translation methodology. Also provides students with theoretical and practical knowledge about source text comprehension as the first step in the process of translation, types of dictionaries.

This course introduces students to the study of physical aspect of speech (articulatory phonetics), and the technical terms required for speech description. A great emphasis on enhancing the practical ability of the students to make and hear differences between sounds and speech utterances and to identify common pronunciation problems.