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Functional English

The document outlines the course CS3104, Functional English, which is a 3-credit hour course designed to enhance basic language skills such as reading, speaking, writing, and listening. It aims to provide students with a strong foundation in English for academic and real-life applications, focusing on grammar, language structure, and various communication functions. The course includes a detailed syllabus covering topics like asking questions, making suggestions, and expressing opinions, along with recommended textbooks for further study.

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Functional English

The document outlines the course CS3104, Functional English, which is a 3-credit hour course designed to enhance basic language skills such as reading, speaking, writing, and listening. It aims to provide students with a strong foundation in English for academic and real-life applications, focusing on grammar, language structure, and various communication functions. The course includes a detailed syllabus covering topics like asking questions, making suggestions, and expressing opinions, along with recommended textbooks for further study.

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Course Code Course Title Credit Hours

CS3104 Functional English 3(3+0)

Prerequisites: Nil
Course Description: This course focuses on teaching of basic language skills: reading, speaking,
writing, and listening. The aim is to give students good foundations in basic English with a focus on
both accuracy and fluency required for academic progress as well performing specific functions in
real life. The course will equip students with the ability to: ask/answer questions, make suggestions,
express certainty/uncertainty, give reasons, ask for permission, describe things, agree and disagree,
and express likes and dislikes, etc.
Aims and Objectives: After completing the course, the students will be able to:
1. Use grammar and language structure in context.
2. Teaching English through use.
3. Teach different language structures needed in different situations.
4. Make learning English a meaningful and interesting activity

Course Contents: Course contents are a) Structure The Passive


divided into the following functions: b) Reading Function in a Text
c) Writing Formal Letters
Function Asking and Answering Questions d) Listening Listening to an Interview
a) Structure The Present Perfect
b) Reading Guessing the Meanings of Words Function Preferences/Interactions
c) Writing Informal Letters: Beginning and a) Structure The ing Form
Ending b) Reading Reading the Main Idea and
d) Listening Understanding Directions Supporting Details in Text
c) Writing Formal Letters
Function Seeking Agreement and d) Listening Listening to a Talk/Lecture
Confirmation
a) Structure The Present Perfect and Simple Function Permission
Past Tense a) Structure The Past Perfect and Future
b) Reading Guessing the Meanings of Words Perfect Tense
c) Writing Joining Sentences b) Reading Classification
d) Listening Listening to a Narrative Account c) Writing Applying for a Job
d) Listening Listening to a Radio Broadcast
Function Agreeing and Disagreeing
a) Structure Reported Speech Function Appreciation, Regret and
b) Reading Predicting Indifference
c) Writing Informal Letters a) Structure Relative Clauses
d) Listening Giving Advice b) Reading Thermatization
c) Writing Note Taking
Function Possibility/Impossibility d) Listening To an Argument
a) Structure Conditionals
b) Reading Skimming and Scanning Function Suggesting/Warning
c) Writing Formal Letters a) Structure Relative Clauses
d) Listening Listening to Talk/Lecture b) Reading Facts and Opinion
c) Writing Summarizing
Function Certainty/Uncertainty: d) Listening Listening to a Story.
Obligations
Recommended Books
1. Bloor, T., & Bloor, M. (2013). The functional analysis of English (Latest ed.). Routledge.
2. Klammer, T. P., Schulz, M. R., & Della Volpe, A. (2000). Analyzing English Grammar (6th ed.).
Pearson Education India.
3. CA Exams Study Text. (2015). Functional English AFC 01 (Latest ed.). Emile Wolf International.

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