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  • Généralités

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      Course Content

       

       

      Lesson

      Content

      Objective

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      Punctuation Rules

      -          Commas

      -          Semi colons

      -          Colons

      -          Quotation Marks

      To indicate the structure of a sentence.

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      The Use of Capital Letters

      Knowing the general rules that govern the use of the capital letters in English.

       

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      The Phrases

      Learning the structural units which create meaning

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      The Sentence Structure

      -          Clauses

      o   Independent Clauses

      o   Dependent Clauses

      §  Noun Clauses

      §  Adjective Clauses

      §  Adverb Clauses

      -          Kinds of Sentences

      o   Simple Sentences

      o   Compound Sentences

      o   Complex Sentences

      o   Compound-Complex Sentences

      Learning the structural units which create meaning

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      Sentence Patterns

      Knowledge of how groups of words function to convey units of thought further enhances our ability to communicate clearly.

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      Expanding Sentence Patterns

      Expansion Through: modification, subordination, coordination and/ or substitution

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      Using Parallel Structure and Fixing Sentence Problems

      -          Parallelism

      o   Parallelism with Coordinators: And, Or, But

      o   Parallelism with Correlative (Paired) Conjunctions

      -          Sentence Problems

      o   Sentence Fragments

      o   Choppy Sentences

      o   Run – Sentences and Comma Splices

      o   Stringy Sentences

       

       

       

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      Determining meaning through context

       

      Use of dictionaries connotations and denotation

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      Paragraph Structure

      -          Three Parts of a paragraph

      o   Topic Sentence

      o   Supporting Sentences

      o   Concluding Sentence

      -          Unity and Coherence

      o   Unity

      o   Coherence

      §  Repetition of key nouns

      §  Key noun substitutes

      §  Consistent Pronouns

      §  Transition signals

      §  Logical order

      ü  Understanding the Writing Process

      ü  Shaping Paragraphs

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      Types of Paragraphs

      -          Narrative paragraphs

      -          Supporting sentences for Narrative paragraphs

      -          ACTIVITIES

       

      -          Descriptive Paragraphs

      o   Supporting Sentences for Descriptive paragraphs

      -          ACTIVITIES

       

       

      Assessment and Evaluation

      Continuous Assessment

      ü  50%

       

      Final Assessment

      ü  Exam 50%


  • Lesson 1

  • Lesson 2

  • Lesson 3

  • Lesson 4

  • Lesson 5

  • Lesson 6

  • Lesson 7

  • Lesson 8

  • Exam's Correction

  • Lesson 9