HOLY CROSS OF DAVAO COLLEGE

Sta. Ana Avenue, Davao City

Bachelor of Arts (AB)

Major: English

COURSE OUTLINE

I Course No.: English 25a Credit : 3 units

II Course Title: Interactive English
Listening, Speaking and Grammar Pre-requisites: None
III. Course Description:
The course introduces the students to the interactive realm of communication
in the English language. It utilizes the lessons learned from previous English
classes such as morphology, phonology and syntax as operational tools to make the
students abreast with development of technology and engaged in an interactive
sense.

IV. Course Objective: At the end of the course, the students can:

A. Cognitive (Knowledge):
1. Acquire adequate knowledge of interactive communication.
2. Demonstrate interactive skills in English.
3. Develop the ability to communicate using on-line communication.
4. Define the principles of listening.
5. Enumerate the types of listening.
B. Affective (Attitude):
1. Understand the proper etiquette of interactive communication.
2. Manifest right and correct behavior in the conduct of interactive
communication.
3. Realize the giftedness of man to advance the level of communication.
4. Show the appreciation of listening to the speaker.
5. Realize the importance of listening and speaking.
C. Psychomotor (Skills):
1. Access on-line exercises using the internet.
2. Demonstrate accuracy in performing a given task.
3. Create activities that show the skills in listening and speaking observing
rules of grammar.
4. Prepare a portfolio of activities of interactive listening and speaking
observing rules of grammar.

V. Course Outline
Contents No. of Hours
A. Course orientation
1. Improving listening effectiveness 1.5
2. Reasons to listen 1.5
 3. Types of listening 1.5
4. How to be a good listener 1.5
5. Improving listening effectiveness 1.5
6. Understanding speaking 1.5
7. Oral interaction 1.5
8. Activities for oral practice 3
9. Stories and rhymes with repetitive and predictable text
10. Stories, rhymes, chants and songs 3
B. Schedules, lifestyles, freetime
1. Asking about/Telling
2. About schedules
3. Surprises questions 3
4. intonation
5. The sound [W]
6. Adverbs of Frequency 4.5
7. time expression within, on, and at
8. Questions about time 4.5
C. Home items, technology 4.5
1. Shopping, asking
2. prices, talking
3. about amounts
4. Numbers/ Money
5. The sound [v]
6. Numbers and prices
7. count/non-count nouns
8. Some and any
D. City life, well known places, famous people
1. Making plans, 1.5
2. Describing places 1.5
3. Exclamation intonation 1.5
4. intonation for interest 1.5
5. There is and are -future with going to future will and going to 3
E. Events, parties, social gatherings
1. Talking about past events, locations 1.5
2. The sound ( ) regular past tense endings (t), (d), (id) 1.5
3. Prepositions for location 1.5
F. Small talk, families
1. Talking about people and family 1.5
2. Simple present endings (s), (z), (iz) 1.5
3. Contractions with Is 1.5
4. Review of information questions 1.5
5. Present continuous 1.5
6. present and future 1
7. Simple past, was and were -simple past: regular and irregular verbs 1
8. Question with how 1

Total 54 hours
VI. References

A. Book
Ref. 1 Brownell, J. (n.d). Listening ; attitudes, principles and skills. Boston,
Massachusetts: Pearson Education Company.
Ref .2 Bygate, M.(n.d.). Speaking; language teaching. Oxfor, New York: Oxford
University Press.

B. Web Resources

Ref .3 http://elekmathe.com/
Ref .4 (n.d.). English page.com
Ref. 5 http://www.esl-galaxy.com/
Ref. 6 eil. interactive (listening). http://www.eilireland.org/community
Ref. 7. http://www.talkenglish.com/
Ref. 8 www.curriculum.gov.nt/docs/sylb_pr_englishyear1.pdf