PREP 101 ELEMENTARY

Course Description and Objectives:

This course aims to enhance the students grammatical knowledge and
linguistic skills at the basic level. It encourages students to handle simple
conversations in daily life, to identify the main points of a discussion or TV
news and to express their opinions and emotions both in writing and
speaking. In addition, it focuses on consolidating students reading and
comprehension skills with basic written materials such as maps, directions,
letters, notes, etc.
PREP 102 PRE-INTERMEDIATE
Course Description and Objectives:
This course aims to enhance students grammatical knowledge and language
skills at pre-intermediate level. In addition, it aims to improve students ability
to follow daily conversations and to catch the main points of discussions
between native speakers as well as of recorded materials such as TV
documentaries and radio programmes. The course focuses on consolidating
students reading skills that help them to understand main points of
newspaper articles, stories or other written materials. The course also
encourages students to give impromptu speeches on familiar topics and
express their points of view in a more advanced style. Moreover, this course
attempts to enhance students writing skills.
PREP 103 INTERMEDIATE
Course Description and Objectives:
This course targets to enhance students previous knowledge and skills at
intermediate level. In accordance with this aim, it focuses on improving
students ability to use various strategies for comprehension by using
contextual clues. In addition, the course concentrates on intonation. It also
encourages students to guess the meaning of unknown vocabulary from the
context. Skimming and scanning skills are also improved in this course.
Besides, it focuses on consolidating the ability of making descriptions or
giving instructions as well as writing about real or fictional situations.
PREP 104 UPPER INTERMEDIATE
Course Description and Objectives:
This course aims to maximize students knowledge and skills at upper
intermediate level. Firstly, it aims to help students recognize the concepts of
redundancy, emphatic stress and back referencing. Also, it focuses on
different accents and sentence stress in English language. It improves
students ability to understand articles apart from their own field with the help
of a dictionary and to grasp the context of long texts, newspaper articles and
reports by scanning. Moreover, the course aims to help students write
argumentative essays on various topics. At the end of this course, students
will be able to understand speeches despite environmental difficulties. Also,
they will be able to give comprehensive presentations and respond to a series

of follow-up questions, use stock phrases and take an active part in

discussions by evaluating proposals and hypotheses.