EL213 : Grammar 3

Department

Department of English Language

Academic Program

Bachelor in English Language

Type

Compulsory

Credits

02

Prerequisite

EL107

Overview

This course provides students with topics and comprehensive lessons on modal verbs and their different uses, prepositions of place and time, types of adverbs and their position in the sentence and how they are derived. The course enables students to apply what is found in these lessons effectively through appropriate exercises.

Intended learning outcomes

After passing this course, students will acquire knowledge and skills represented in the ability to classify modal auxiliary verbs according to their multiple uses (Ability, possibility and probability, necessity, obligation, making offers, suggestions, requests, invitations, giving permission, decisions, predictions, etc.) and formulating sentences and grammatical structures with these verbs, in addition to distinguishing between the use of some prepositions of place and time and placing them in different grammatical structures with nouns and adjectives. Students will also be able to clarify the concept of adverb, its types, the function of each type, how it is derived, and its position in the sentence.

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures, exercises and panel discussions

Methods of assessments

Written mid-term exam 40

Written final exam 60

Week

Scientific Topic

First

1. Modal Auxiliary Verbs

Second

a. Ability

Third

b. Permission

Fourth

c. Possibility

Fifth

d. Necessity

Sixth

e. Obligation & probability

Seventh

f. Requests, suggestions, offers and invitations

Eighth

Mid-term Exam

Ninth

g. Predictions, refusals, decisions

Tenth

2. Prepositions

Eleventh

a. Prepositions of Place

Twelfth

b. Prepositions of Time

Thirteenth

c. Prepositions, linking words and adverbs

Fourteenth

d. Structures with prepositions

Fifteenth

3. Adverbs

Sixteenth

Final-term Exam