PINES CITY COLLEGES

GENERAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

Course Syllabus in ENGL A

First Semester, School Year 2015 – 2016

PCC PHILOSOPHY:

Pines City Colleges believes that education makes a man and that a holistic education brings about the most desirable changes in an individual’s personal and
professional life.

INSTITUTIONAL VISION:

A premier learning institution, whose graduates are mature, well-balanced, imbued with values, and who are responsive to local and global needs.

INSTITUTIONAL MISSION:

PCC is committed to develop the student’s potentials to the maximum.

VISION OF THE GENERAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT:

The General Education Department envisions to develop learners with diverse knowledge on technological literacy, inventive thinking, effective
communication and high productivity, and to develop professionally competent and responsive individuals to local and global needs of the school and community.

MISSION OF THE GENERAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT:

 The General Education Department is committed to provide well-rounded learners who are ready to serve in a complex, interconnected, and rapidly changing
world and to inculcate desirable changes as God-loving, responsible, liberal and holistically upright individual in personal and in professional life.

PROGRAM OUTCOMES:
The General Education Department aims to:

1. train students to be God-fearing and loving, responsible and morally upright individuals;
2. provide students with a broad knowledge in natural, human and mathematical sciences to prepare them for the pursuit of other related professions;
3. enhance social and technical skills with emphasis in verbal and written communication arts, analytical thinking and leadership;
4. cultivate in students tolerance for differences in beliefs, values, arts and culture of people ; and
5. develop healthy, physically fit and active members of the society.

COURSE NUMBER: ENGLISH A

I. COURSE DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: BASIC ENGLISH FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS I

II. COURSE DESCRIPTION

The course aimed to continue the acquisition of the primary components of the English language to help develop the necessary skills of the foreign students to
become competitive enough before taking their English Communication Skills 1. Moreover it presents a bird’s eye view on the parts of speech and some grammar rules.
Course Units: 3 units lecture and exercises
Hours/Terms: 51 hours lecture and exercises
Prerequisite/Co-requisite: English B

III. COURSE RATIONALE

The course presents an introduction to the different parts of speech so as to give an overview to the students in preparation to the lessons presented in English 1.
It also includes construction of simple sentences with its basic parts. The latter part provides a grammar review to the students using some of the Canterbury Tales.

IV. COURSE INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Observe good spelling skills.

2. Pronounce word sounds accurately.
3. Enrich vocabulary through unlocking of unfamiliar words.
4. Define the three fundamental parts of speech (nouns, pronouns and verbs).
 5. Identify the different kinds of nouns.
6. Provide examples of the five fundamental parts of speech.
7. Substitute nouns with corresponding pronouns in subjective, objective and possessive case.
8. Develop effective study and thinking skills through the four macro skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening).

V. COURSE CONTENT

INTENDED LEARNING LEARNING TASKS ASSESSMENT HOURS AND DATES

OUTCOMES
MODULES METHODOLOGY MTW
1. Observe good spelling 1. Word Spelling Lecture-Discussion Spelling drills August 10 – 26, 2015
skills. a. With –ph sound (Active Lecture) Writing activities 9 hours
b. With –gh sound Dictionary drills
c. Words with silent sounds Read articles/selections Board work August 21 = Holiday
d. Words with repeated letters with the target sounds
e. Commonly misspelled English
words Compose sentences
observing correct spelling

2. Pronounce word sounds
accurately.
1. Word Sounds Pronunciation Activities Oral Reading August 31 – September
a. Vowel Sounds 16, 2015
b. Consonant Sounds Practice pronouncing words 9 hours
observing proper
pronunciation Aug. 1 & Sept. 1 =
Holiday
Observe correct stress

3. Enrich vocabulary 1. The -nyms Lecture-Discussion Quizzes September 21 – October

though unlocking of a. Synonym: Word with Similar (Active Lecture) Composition 20, 2015
unfamiliar words. Meanig Seat work 14 hours
b. Antonym: Word with Opposite Vocabulary Building
Meaning
c. Acronym: Word Formed from Compose a Poem Using
Initials -nyms
d. Homonym
e. Homophone
 f. Anagram
4. Define the three 1. Nouns : The Name Lecture-Discussion Writing activities October 21 – November
fundamental parts of a. Definition (Active Lecture) Seat work 3, 2015
speech (nouns, pronouns, b. Proper Nouns: Quizzes 6 hours
and verbs). The Capitalized Name Write a self-introduction Oral recitation
c. Common Nouns: November 2 = Holiday
5. Identify the different The Noun Designating Member of Enumerate proper nouns
kinds of nouns. Class that are associated through
d. Gender Nouns: a given common noun.
6. Provide examples of the Category of Noun
three fundamental parts of i. Masculine Catalogue given nouns
speech. ii. Feminine according to gender.
ii. Neuter
e. Mass Nouns Classify nouns according to
f. Count Nouns its kind
g. Collective Nouns
h. Abstract Nouns Editing: Capitalize words
i. Collective Nouns that need to be in upper
case and lower case
characters that are
capitalized incorrectly.
7. Substitute nouns with 1. Pronouns: The Name-substitute Lecture-Discussion Written test November 4 – 11, 2015
corresponding pronouns in a. Definition 4 hours
subjective, objective and b. Subjective pronouns Match given nouns to their Activities (individual and
possessive case. c. Objective pronouns corresponding pronouns. group)
d. Possessive pronouns
Change the nouns in given
sentences into their
equivalent pronouns.
Lecture-Discussion
8. Develop effective study 1. Reading Comprehension Lecture-Discussion Writing activities November 16 -
and thinking skills through a. Skimming Board work December 2. 2015
the four macro skills b. Scanning CLOZE Test Oral activity 9 hours
(reading, writing, speaking 2. Speaking Read articles/selections Quizzes
and listening). 3. Listening Rewrite texts into own
4. Writing understanding
 a. Summarizing
b. Paraphrasing

VI. GRADING SYSTEM

Grades will be computed according to the institutional policy:

Prelim Grade = 70% CS + 30% Exam

Midterm Grade = 60 % CS + 40% Exam
Tentative Final Grade = 50% CS + 50 % Exam
FINAL GRADE = Prelim Grade + Midterm Grade + Tentative Final Grade
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VII. BIBLIOGRAPHY

Murphy, R. (2005). Basic Grammar in Use (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Jervis, Raymond & Carling, Maria (2008). Grammar Time (New Ed.). Pearson ELT
Molinsky, Steven J. & Bliss, Bill (2013). Side by Side Book 2 (3rd Ed). Longman

PREPARED BY:

Daphne S. Ponso

APPROVED BY:

Engr. Ceclia Lim –Cabanilla

Area Head, General Education