iEARN- P4L –YES 2004
Pre-Departure Orientation
English Language Proficiency and Study Skills Program
Dates: June 15 – 30, 2003 (14 days, Monday through
Saturday)
Timings: 09:00 am to 01:00 pm (Four hours a day, total 56
hours)
Session One: 09:00 am to 10:50 am
Session Two: 11:05 am to 01:00 pm
Venue: Al-Murtaza School, Boys’ section
Faciliator: Sobia
Alam and Afshan Haneef Khan
Focus:
Listening: Toefl exercises, questions based on talk shows/interviews
recording, cloze exercises, news
exercises
(10 hours)
Important Areas: intonation, Received Pronunciation (RP), dialects,
pronunciation differences in different states/areas
Speaking: pair and group discussions, role-plays, individual and group
presentations, interviews, talk
shows
(15 hours)
Important areas: functions, tone, expressions, body language (facial expressions
and gestures), standard and non-standard speech, colloquial language, slang
Reading: different types of texts, fiction, non-fiction, newspapers,
magazines, journals, academic reading, (different types of paragraphs, topic
sentence, supporting details etc.), reading speed, reading poems and
plays (10 hours)
Writing: free writing, different types of writing (explanatory,
descriptive, narrative, reflective etc.) writing diaries and log journals,
writing reflections
Academic Writing: writing essays, poems, term papers, repot, research
papers, compiling and editing the
texts
(15 hours)
Other Skills:
Doing research, making presentations, using libraries (ISBN, Devi’s decimal
numbers etc.) plagiarism, referencing, and project based learning.
Contact: Saleem Ibrahim for further information and concerns