NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Communication Academic Year 2015-2016
Course Code and Title: CMN 198 (English 1) Senior Lecturer: Emine Köşker
Level of English :Elemantary
Target Students: Freshman students in the Faculty of Communication (all departments) Semester: Fall
Type of the Course: Pre-requisite Language: English
Duration of the Course: 14 weeks Hours of the Course per week: 3 hours Credit of the Course: 3 credits
Number of the Students: 30 - 45
Course Description:
CMN 198 is a Freshman course for the students of Faculty of Communication. It aims to improve the level of English from Elemantary to Lower Intermediate. Since the students directly come from the Lycee without having education in Preparation School at the university, their level is appropriate to elemantary level. The main emphasis of the course is on the development of grammar to the related areas Reading and Speaking.
Course Objectives:
To raise the students’ level of English from Elemantary to Lower Intermediate.
To improve students’ grammar knowledge in order to build up sentences correctly, to understand whatever they read and write and to develop their terminology.
To improve students’ Reading skills with the use of simple texts and help them understand whatever they read.
To improve the students’ Speaking skills with the use of pictures taken from various magazines and newspaper related to their fields.
Course Assessment:
Mid-term Exam ...40%
Final Exam ...60%
Bonus (Attendance and Participation) ...10%
In this Course as a text book, a compile booklet is used. The subjects and exercises are taken from various grammar books listed below. The absent students can also follow the lesson by looking at these reference books at the library. The weekly Time Allocation is given to the students at the beginnig of the semester on the first lesson. So it is easy to follow the subjects by looking at the list even if they are absent. Attendance is
compulsory in order to achieve the goal. Missing too many lessons means “failure”
because it is difficult to recover the missing ones. The exams are in classical written style.
The aim is to understand if the taught subjects are learned enough.
Reference Books:
- Essential Grammar in Use Supplementary Exercises (Helen Naylor with Raymond Murphy) (Cambridge -2005)
- Face 2 Face (Chris Redston & Gullie Cunnigham) (Cambridge- 2005) - English Grammar in Use Supplementary Exercises
(Loise Hashemi with Raymond Murphy) (Cambridge – 2004)
- New English File (Clive Oxenden, Christina Paul Seligson with Jane Hudson) (Oxford-1997)
- Practise your Modal Verbs (Mike Watkins) (Longman- 1997) - Powerbase (Elemantary) (Chris Faram) (2002)
- True To Life (Joanne Collie & Stephen Slater (Cambridge) (1995)
- Program in English Grammar (1+2+3) (Chris Baker, Gülay Kıratlı) (Longman-2005) - Grammar Spectrum (1+2+3) (Norman Cole (Oxford – 2002)
- Changes (Jack C: Richards with Jonathan Hull & Susan Proctor) ((Cambridge – 1996) - Inspiration (Judy Garton –Sprenger, Philip Prowse (MacMillian)
- Graded Exercises in English (Robert Dixson) (Dixson English Series) - Speakout (Elemantary) (Frances Eales, Steve Oakes)(Longman)
Weekly Time Allocation
Weel 1 : Warm up. The Lecturer introduces her self and wants her students to introduce themselves. The introduction of the Lesson. The disciplinary rules are talked about. The students are informed about the expectations from the lesson.
Week 2: The Verb to “BE”. The lesson is taught grammatically and practiced orally in the class. They introduce themselves and their friends.
Week 3: Countries /Nationalities. They talk about their countries and nationalities
Week 4: Indefinite Articles: A/An + Jobs. They talk about their parents’ , their friends’
jobs. They study in groups.
Week 5: Subject Pronouns. Instead of Nouns they learn to use (He,she it ...)
Week 6: Prepositions. (at/In/On). They learn to use the prepositions in Time. For example we use “at” for the clock time, “in” for months, seasons, “on” for the days etc.
Week 7: Possessive Adjectives. (My, his, her....) The students start talking about themselves, about their families and friends They study in pairs.
Week 8: MID-TERM EXAMS
Week 9: Singular/ Plural Nouns
Week 10: Demonstrative Adjectives / Adverbs
Week 11: Parts of Face and Body. They describe the people’s Face and Body orally.
Week 12: Describing People: Have got / Has got. They describe people’s physical appearance and cloth
Week 13: Revision
Week 14: FINAL EXAMS
NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Communication Academic Year 2015-2016
Course Code and Title: CMN 298 (English II) Senior Lecturer: Emine Köşker
Level of English :Lower Intermediate
Target Students: Senior students in the Faculty of Communication (all departments) Semester: Fall
Type of the Course: Elective Language: English
Duration of the Course: 14 weeks Hours of the Course per week: 3 hours Credit of the Course: 3 credits
Number of the Students: 8 -15
Course Description:
CMN 298 is an English course for the Senior students in Faculty of Communication. It aims to improve the level of English from Lower Intermediate to Intermediate. The main emphasis of the course is on the development of Terminology of Doing Shopping and Having meal in the Restaurants including Speaking Skills. Also Grammar about Future Tense and Modals verbs are taught since they are related to the subject.
Course Objectives:
To raise the students’ level of English from Lower Intermediate to Intermediate.
To improve the students’ vovabulary stock and Speaking Skills with the use of pictures taken from various sources or magazines.
To improve students’ Grammar knowledge in order to prepare them to a higher and more sophisticated level where they can be able to express themselves in English.
Course Assessment:
Mid-term exam...50%
Final Oral exam ...50%
Bonus (attendance and participation) ...10%
In this Course as a text book, a compile booklet is used. The subjects and exercises are taken from various grammar books listed below. The absent students can also follow the lesson by looking at these reference books at the library. The weekly Time Allocation is given to the students at the beginning of the semester on the first lesson. So it is easy to follow the subjects by looking at the list even if they are absent. Attendance is
compulsory in order to achieve the goal. Missing too many lessons means “failure”
because it is difficult to recover the missing ones. The Mid-term exam is in classical written style. The aim is to understand if the taught subjects are learned enough. Final exam is taken place Orally since the aim is to make the students do shopping and have meal in the restaurants easily. The students prepare their own speaking texts in pairs and practise them in the class.
Reference Books:
- Essential Grammar in Use Supplementary Exercises (Helen Naylor with Raymond Murphy) (Cambridge -2005)
- Face 2 Face (Chris Redston & Gullie Cunnigham) (Cambridge- 2005) - English Grammar in Use Supplementary Exercises
(Loise Hashemi with Raymond Murphy) (Cambridge – 2004)
- New English File (Clive Oxenden, Christina Paul Seligson with Jane Hudson) (Oxford-1997)
- Practise your Modal Verbs (Mike Watkins) (Longman- 1997) - Powerbase (Elemantary) (Chris Faram) (2002)
- True To Life (Joanne Collie & Stephen Slater (Cambridge) (1995)
- Program in English Grammar (1+2+3) (Chris Baker, Gülay Kıratlı) (Longman-2005)
- Grammar Spectrum (1+2+3) (Norman Cole (Oxford – 2002)
- Changes (Jack C: Richards with Jonathan Hull & Susan Proctor) ((Cambridge – 1996) - Graded Exercises in English (Robert Dixson) (Dixson English Series)
- Speakout (Elemantary) (Frances Eales, Steve Oakes)(Longman)
Weekly Time Allocation
Week 1: Warm up. Introduction of the course and the disciplanary rules of the course and the faculty.
Week 2: Introduction of the Future Tense using “Be going to”.
Week 3: The different usages of “will”
Week 4: How to use present Continuous for the Future
Week 5: Introduction of Modal Verbs (must, have to, should)
Week 6: Teaching Modal verbs (may, might, can, could)
Week 7: Revision
Week 8: Mid-term exam
Week 9: Shopping ( Vocabulary is given)
Week 10: Shopping : the students prepare their shopping sketch in pairs.
Week 11: At the Restaurant (Vocabulary is given)
Week 12: At the Restaurant : They prepare their having meal at the restaurant sketch
Week 13: The last practise with their friends
Week 14: Oral Exam
NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Communication
Academic Year 2015-2016
Course Code and Title: CMN 299 (English I) Senior Lecturer: Emine Köşker
Education: English based
Level of English :Upper Intermediate
Target Students: Freshman students in the Faculty of Communication (all English based departments)
Semester: Fall
Type of the Course: Prerequisite Language: English
Duration of the Course: 14 weeks Hours of the Course per week: 3 hours Credit of the Course: 3 credits
Number of the Students: 10 -15
Text Book: Media in GSCE English (Chris Purple & John O’Connor)
Supplemantary Material:Building Skills for Proficiency (Cesur Öztürk)
Course Description:
CMN 299 is a Freshman course for the students of Faculty of Communication. However since the education is based on English, it aims to improve the level of English from Upper
intermediate to Advanced. The main emphasis of the course is on the development of Terminology to the related areas including Reading and Speaking skills.
Course Objectives:
To raise the students’ level of English from upper intermediate to Advanced.
To improve students’ vocabulary stock and Reading Skills with the use of authentic texts and help them understand design features in print media advertising
To improve students’ Writing skills by using Advertisement samples and Terminology in order to prepare them higher and more sophisticated level where they can be able to write effective advertisements.
Course Assessment:
Mid-term Exam ...50%
Projects: 1) Create an Advertisement : 25%
2) Giving ads in the Newspaper (such as items for sale or to let): 25%
Weekly Time Allocation
Week 1: Warm up: Introduction of the course. Introduction of the lecturer and the students themselves. Information about the disciplinary rules of the of the course and the faculty.
Week 2: Introduction to Reading Development: Part 1 – Guessing Vocabulary from Text based Context clues
Week 3: Part 2 – Guessing Vocabulary from Prefixes Week 4: Part 2 – Guessing Vocabulary from Prefixes Week 5: Part 3 – Guessing the Meaning from the Context Week 6: Part 4 – Reference Signals
Week 7: Part 4 – Reference Signals Week 8: Mid-term Exam
Week 9: Advertising Vocabulary – Who are the Advertisers?
Week 10: Advertising and Print Media
Week 11: Target Groups Week 12: Writing Small Ads Week 13: Organization of an Ad Week 14: Sumitting of the Projects
