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Students whose first language is not English |
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Approximately 10 hours |
This is a course for students whose first language is not English. It will help you improve your basic grammar before you write your assignments. This course covers essential areas of English grammar such as the use of active/passive voice and basic sentence structure to help improve accuracy in your writing.
This taught course is also available as a self study course on Canvas. Find out more on the course's E-Learning page.
Information: Modules that carry the AS- code are non-credit bearing modules. This means that successful completion of these modules by attending 80% of the course, will appear on your Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR).
SYLLABUS
This course is made up of the following one hour sessions:
SESSION ONE: Parts of Speech
Parts of speech are the different types of words that our speech and writing are made of. They are like the building blocks of communication. It is useful to know the parts of speech and understand how they work together in order to help construct good sentences.
SINGLETON CAMPUS
Thursday 9th February 2023, 12:00-13:00
SESSION TWO: Word Order
Different languages will order words in different ways to English. The purpose of this lesson is to outline and to provide some practice of ordering words in sentences.
SINGLETON CAMPUS
Thursday 16th February 2023, 12:00-13:00
SESSION THREE: Conjunctions
The purpose of this lesson is to help you familiarise yourself with conjunctions and their possible uses, enabling you to improve the flow of your own writing and speech.
SINGLETON CAMPUS
Thursday 23rd February 2023, 12:00-13:00
SESSION FOUR: Transition Words
This lesson will focus on conjunctive adverbs and transition words and phrases, with examples of their function and exercises for identifying and using each of them. We will consider their structures, and their possible uses, enabling you to improve the grammar and flow of your own writing and speech.
SINGLETON CAMPUS
Thursday 2nd March 2023, 12:00-13:00
SESSION FIVE: Conditionals
SINGLETON CAMPUS
Thursday 9th March 2023, 12:00-13:00
SESSION SIX: Relative Clauses
Relative clauses are a type of subordinate clause that add extra information about a noun or noun phrase. Using them can help our writing and speech seem more fluent. The purpose of this lesson is to help you familiarise yourself with relative clauses. We will consider their structures and their possible uses.
SINGLETON CAMPUS
Thursday 16th March 2023, 12:00-13:00
SESSION SEVEN: Tenses in Academic Writing
You will need to use a range of tenses to communicate effectively when completing your assignments. However, in academic writing, some tenses are used more frequently than others. These will be the main focus of this lesson, although we will briefly consider where you might use other tenses too.
SINGLETON CAMPUS
Thursday 23rd March 2023, 12:00-13:00
SESSION EIGHT: Modals
This lesson considers Modal Verbs; a type of auxiliary verb which are used in combination with main verbs to indicate degrees of certainty, ability, or to show obligation and freedom to act.
SINGLETON CAMPUS
Thursday 30th March 2023, 12:00-13:00
SESSION NINE: Passive Voice
We use the passive voice quite frequently in academic writing. This lesson will consider how the passive voice is formed, and why and where it is used in academic writing.
SINGLETON CAMPUS
Thursday 27th April 2023, 12:00-13:00
SESSION TEN: Articles
The purpose of this lesson is to help you understand how and when to correctly use articles. Article errors are some of the most common errors made by language learners. This often stems from there being no equivalent in a student’s first language.
SINGLETON CAMPUS
Thursday 4th April 2023, 12:00-13:00