Learning major elements of English grammar by using principles of linguistic analysis. Identifying the main morphological and syntactic constructions in English including parts of speech; basic sentence structure; tense, aspect, and mood; clause type; negation; complex sentences; thematic systems; the relations between sentences in discourse; and ellipsis and coordination.



Use of grammar in context of the structure of English; words (mechanics of word building: base forms, affixes, prefixes, suffixes, as well as derivation and inflection), phrases (the clause/phrase distinction; discussion of nominal clauses, complementizers, and interrogatives), clause and sentence structure, major sentence types (interrogative, imperative, exclamatory) and their differences from one another., punctuation, agreement errors commonly confused and misused words spelling, Reported speech.



Oral communication skills; listening and speaking, expressing ideas/opinions on topics related to students lives and experiences, Participation in class room discussion on contemporary issues.



Reading and writing skills; identifying main idea/topic sentence, note taking and note making, developing a paragraph outline (topic sentence and supporting details)

Vocabulary building skills;