American University of Technology

English Faculty
English INTENSIVE 2 READING & WRITING 2
Fall 22

Course Information (based on Course Catalogue)

Course No. (Subject & No.): 022 Title: INTENSIVE 2 READING & WRITING
Number of credits: 12 Number of contact hours per week:
Pre-requisites: Intensive 1 Co-requisites:
Description: This course will advance your English academic skills in Level 2 of English.

Schedule Information (based on class schedule)

CRN : Section :
Days/time class meets: M/T/W/R
Class Location (Building & Room): AG125
10.15 am – 12.00 pm
Name of Instructor:
Telephone:
Email:
Coordinator:

Course Learning Objectives

1. Foundational Knowledge Outcomes
- Remember and understand vocabulary items, grammatical rules, and phonology in different
contexts and related to various themes.
- Define strategies of the four skills: Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking.

2. Application Outcomes
- Develop critical thinking, problem solving, and language analysis skills and apply them.
- Relate the skills learned in this course to all other disciplines and integrate them in other aspects
of their lives.

3. Integration Outcomes
- Accept responsibility for their behavior.
- Respect cultural diversity.
- Improve team interaction skills.

4. Human Dimension Outcomes

- Demonstrate passion for this course and for English in general and therefore aim at higher
academic achievements.
- Come to value the significance of English as a means of communication in today’s world.

5. Caring Outcomes
- Become more confident using the English Language.
- Learn to set a learning agenda.

6. Learning-How-to-learn Outcomes
- Construct systematic knowledge and frame useful questions.
- Become self-directed and life-long learners.

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Course Design Components

Course Objectives Assessment Activities Learning Activities Resources

1. Fundamental -Quizzes -Reading -Textbooks

Knowledge -Tests -Worksheets -Online workbook and
-Midterm and Final exam -Oral presentations learning activities
-Pair/group work -Feedback -www.cambridgelms.org/
-Rubrics and checklists unlock
-Observation sheets -CDs/DVDs
-Oral Presentations
-Research
-Role play
-Learning portfolio
-Reflective writing
-Debates
-Simulations

2. Application -Comprehend -Group conversations

-Speech -Audio/CDs
-Speak -DVDs
-Read
-Write -Read and listen and
summarize in English

3. Integration -Connect English to other -Bring in examples from

parts of their lives (both outside of class
academically and non- -Role Play
academically) -Conduct
-Song lyrics, music videos
-using the internet to
source and discover
4. Human Dimensions -Recognize own ability to -Task:
learn and improve Writing and speaking
-Become better listeners multiple times to see own
and speakers with others improvement

5. Caring -Develop strong interest in Learn about things they

English are already interested in
in English
6. How-to-learn -Develop a plan for -Be self-aware
improving their English -Identify specific learning
styles
-Identify specific “how to
learn “plan

Course Schedule of Learning and Assessment Activities (based on academic calendar for both TTh, MWF, MW,
or WF courses; dates will be provided to you as published by academic affairs office)
Weeks & M/T/W R
Topics/Units/

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  Making suggestions, grammar for
writing, stating opinions, identifying
Weeks 1-2 purpose and audience.
Productive
Unit 3 History  First conditional, grammar for writing,
task
Unit 4 Transport using visuals to predict content.

 Cause and effect writing, scanning to

Weeks 2-3
Unit 5 find information in texts, using because
Environment and because of Productive
Unit 6 Health and  Giving reasons, understanding and task
Fitness subdividing arguments problem solution
essays.
 Scanning to predict content, relative
Weeks 3-4 causes, writing a disadvantage/advantage
Unit 7 Discovery essay.
and Invention  Distinguishing fact from fiction, TEST 1
Unit 8 Fashion prepositional phrases, evaluating
arguments and counter arguments.

 Describing graphs, understand and

interpret visual information, analyze a
Weeks 5-6
graph
Unit 9 Economics Productive
 Passive, analyze a diagram to understand
Unit 10 The Brain task
a process, writing an explanatory
paragraph

Weeks 7-8 L.O. Unit 1 Essay

FCE BOOK  Identify comparative adverbs and

Unit 1 Fashion produce comparison structures (p.12)
Matters  Recognize and then analyse comparative
and superlative structures and forms
Unit 2 The Virtual (p.13)
World
L.O. Unit 2
Unit 3 Going
Places  Skim the text for general information
(p.16-17)
Unit 4 Endangered L.O. Unit 3
 Structure phrasal verbs and collocations
(p.23)

L.O. Unit 4
 Scan the text and answer detailed
questions (p.28-29)
 Use as and like in controlled practice

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 (p.30

Week 9 MIDTERM
Review/Midterm EXAM

L.O. Unit 5
 Apply the past tenses form in controlled
practice (p. 36-37)

L.O. Unit 6
Weeks 10-11
 Read for general information (p.40)
Unit 5 Mixed  Apply conditionals with if & unless
Emotions exercises in controlled practice (p.42-43)

Unit 6 What If? L.O. Unit 7

 Practice gerunds and infinitives in Essay
Unit 7 Life’s Too controlled practice (p. 48-49)
Short  Use expressions with do

Unit 8 Growing Up L.O. Unit 8

 Skim and scan to find the main idea and
specific details (p.54-55)
 Practice the use of used to and would in
controlled practice (p. 56)

Weeks 11-12 L.O. Unit 9 TEST2

 Discuss and be able to speculate about a
Unit 9 The Hard TV advert (p. 60)
Sell  Identify the author’s certainty when
Unit 10 The Final checking modals that refer to a past
Frontier action (p. 60)
 Read and think of words which fit gaps
Unit 11 Like (p. 61)
Mother, Like
 Use adjective-noun collocations to show
Daughter
arrange of vocabulary (p. 61)
Unit 12 A Great L.O. Unit 10
Idea  Read for gist and details (p. 66- 67)
 Read and identify word formations (p.
67)
 Discuss ideas and give opinion (p. 67)
 Identify future forms in sentences and
use them in practices (p. 68-69)
L.O. Unit 11
 Recognize past and present participles
and use ‘ed’ adjectives in conversations
(p. 75)

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 L.O. Unit 12

 Discuss and produce appropriate

vocabulary about modern life (p. 78)

 Read for gist and specific details of

different short extracts (p. 78-79)

 Recognize and use the passive voice in

sentences (p. 80-81)
 Use noun verb collocations to link
sentence beginnings and endings (p. 81)

Weeks 12-13 L.O. Unit 13 Productive

task
Unit 13 Education  Recognize and identify adjective noun
for Life collocations in descriptive paragraphs (p.
87)
Unit 14 Career
Moves  Recognize an use reported speeches in
practices and listening activities (p. 88-
Unit 15 Too Many
89)
People?
 Exam folder: Take organized notes of
Unit 16 Eat To
listening short extracts, and make use of
Live
them in answering questions (p. 90-91)

L.O. Unit 14

 Use communication strategies to

participate in class discussion about
career moves (p. 92-93)

 Scan for specific details (p. 92-93)

 Create new words by adding negative

prefixes (p. 93)

 Understand and practice perfect tenses

and indefinite pronouns (p. 94-95)

 Identify and distinguish relevant from

irrelevant information (p. 94)

 Writing folder 7 - Write letters of

application

L.O. Unit 15

 Apply countable and uncountable nouns

(p. 100-101)

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 L.O. Unit 16
 Recognize and apply definite articles and
possessive ‘s’ p 106-107
 Write an opinion essay from the booklet.

L.O. Unit 17
 Use relative pronouns and compare
defining and non-defining relative
clauses in extracts. (p.112)
 Form nouns from adjectives. (p.113)
 Form collocations and use them in
sentences. (p.113)
L.O. Unit 18
 Skim for location and characters. (p.116)
 Read for gist and detail. (p.117)
Weeks 14-15  Use phrasal verbs with ‘come’ and ‘go’.
(p.117)
Unit 17 Collectors  Listen to identify book types. (p.118)
and Creators  Read to identify writer’s opinion .
(p.118)
Unit 18 What’s in
 Locate: ‘enough-too-very-so-such’ in
a Book?
text, identify type of use, and use them in Productive
sentences. (p.119) Task
Unit 20 No Place
to Hide L.O. Unit 20

Unit 21 Urban  Use correct form of verbs. (p.130)

Decay, Suburban  Infer meanings of unfamiliar words.
Hell (p.130)
 Locate placement of missing items in a
text. (p.131)
 Identify pronoun antecedents. (p.131)
 Write an email response. (p.135)
L.O. Unit 20
 Use mixed conditionals in controlled
practice and freer speaking activity.
(p.138)
 Identify and use academic vocabulary.
(p.139)
 Form prefix re- words and use. (p.139)
Weeks 16
FINAL EXAM
Final Exam

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Course Graded Tasks/Assignments (All Assessment Activities)
1. TESTS & ESSAYS
2. MIDTERM/ FINAL EXAM
3. Attendance /Portfolio

The grades will be assessed according to the following percentages:

4. Test 1: 10%
5. Midterm Exam: 15%
6. Test 2: 10%
7. Final Exam: 20%
8. Portfolio: 10%
9. Essays: 15%
10. Attendance 10%
11. Productive activities 10%

Evaluation Criteria (Total must be equal to 100%)

Individual Performance Tasks/Activities: 60-70%
- MIDTERM EXAM
- FINAL EXAM
- PORTFOLIO
- ATTENDANCE

Group/Team Performance Tasks/Activities: 30-40%

- ESSAYS
- TESTS
- PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES(CLASS WRITINGS AND QUIZES

Required Textbooks
CAMBRIDGE UNLOCKED 3

Supplemental References
Subjects covered in class

Required Materials
Writing exercise books and stationary

Course Policies (based on AUT policies and procedures as per Catalogue)

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Academic Integrity

Each student in this course is expected to abide by the University Code of Academic Integrity. Any work submitted by a
student in this course will be the student's own work.

You are encouraged to study together and to discuss information and concepts covered in class with other students. You can
give "consulting" help to or receive "consulting" help (what we call at AUT “shadowing”). You also will be awarded for this
contribution in the form of extra points towards your grades.

During examinations, you must do your own work. Talking or discussion is not permitted during the examinations, nor
may you compare papers, copy from others, or collaborate in any way. Any collaborative behavior during the
examinations will result in failure of the exam, and may lead to failure of the course and University disciplinary action.

Class attendance and participation policy:

Punctuality: You are kindly asked to come to class on time. You will not be permitted into class if you are more than
10 minutes late, in case you have a justifiable reason for your delay, you will have get a “waiver” from the
department’s chairperson.
Attendance Policy: Students are expected to attend and participate in all classes. After three absences you will be
reported to the department and issued a warning letter.
If a student absents him/herself from six classes, he/she will be asked to drop the course. If the student does not
drop the course, a grade of “F” will be given.
Homework and Tests: Students are required to come to class prepared. The class portfolio
is obligatory and all written assignments must be stored for teacher grading and reference.

Student Class Attendance Policy

“Students are expected to attend all classes and laboratory sessions on regular basis and on time. The maximum number of
absence hours permitted in a course, whether authorized or not, is three (3) hours per credit. For example, a student is
allowed to be absent up to 9 hours per semester in a 3-credit course without directly jeopardizing his/her grade in the
course. If a student’s number of absence hours in a course exceeds the maximum allowed limit then the student will
automatically receive the failing grade (“FW”) in the course. If a student wishes to withdraw from a class, the student must
complete a “Course Withdrawal Form” and submit it to the Registrar Office before January 4, 2012. Otherwise, the student
has not formally withdrawn from the class.”

Academic Dishonesty (including Cheating and Plagiarism)

AUT endeavors to uphold Academic Integrity. Cheating, Plagiarism or other infractions will not be tolerated in this course.
Read University policy on Plagiarism. Read class hand-outs on Plagiarism. Cheating and plagiarism is defined and addressed
in several lectures. There is NO excuse for not knowing the policy. Lack of knowledge will not serve as an excuse. Hint:
“recycling” your own work constitutes plagiarism.

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