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Intermediate English Courses

Subjects Required Credits Courses 
Duration
Course Description Course Outcomes Evaluation/ Assessment References
Listening 3 3 45 periods This course helps students get familiarized with a wide range of vocabulary such as psychology, science, cuisine, health, business and other social issue in many simple forms of conversations, news reports, and lectures.                       Students will gain listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills at the level of B2 - based on the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR); Students will have the capacity to achieve most goals and express oneself on a range of topics. Ongoing & final exam  (Freire, R., Jones, T., [2011], Q: Skills for Success 4 – Speaking and Listening: Student’s Book, OUP, Oxford.)
Speaking 3 3 45 periods This course helps students practice speaking skills based on such situations and social topics such as rights & responsibility, appearance, maturation, healthcare, modern arts, food, success, inventions, human & nature, children's & teenager's psychology. Ongoing & final exam (Craven, M., & Sherman, K. D., [2011], Q: Skills for Success 4 – Listening and Speaking, Oxford University Press, Oxford.)
Reading 3 3 45 periods This course provides students with a variety of reading subskills such as skimming, scanning, guessing the meaning of unknown words based on context clues and/or morphological analysis, identifying genre of the given text, identifying the writer’s viewpoints or attitudes; This course also equips students with academic vocabulary and background knowledge about subjects like tourism, fashion, customs economy, health, education, culture, sports, entertainment, animals and mysterious science. Ongoing & final exam (Anderson, N. J., [2014], Active Skills for Reading 3, Third Edition, National Geographic Learning, Boston.)
Writing 3 3 45 periods It helps students explore ideas, brainstorm prior knowledge on the topics through pictures and suggested questions in order to build vocabulary, organize ideas for the related topics such as psychology, arts, laws, moral, job orientation, and literature analysis. Ongoing & final exam (Davis, J., & Liss, R., [2012], Effective Academic Writing 3: The Researched Essay-Second Edition, Oxford University Press, New York.)