Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Ministry of Higher Education

Private Universities and Higher Education General Directorate
Maiwand Institute of Higher Education
Economic Faculty
Teacher’s Couse Policy
Subject code: Eco. BBA -1211

Subject: Functional English

Semester: BBA 2nd

Instructor: Mustafa Musamim Bayat

Contact information: mustafamusamim1413@gmail.com
Course Description: The purpose of this course is to develop the English-language proficiency of
prospective elementary school teachers and to help them become confident in reading, writing, speaking,
and listening. Instead of teaching grammar in isolation and only at sentence level, this course is based on
developing the language abilities of students and teachers through an integrated approach that provides
opportunities to develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. With a focus on social
interaction, the course draws specific attention to the accurate use of structures, improvement of
pronunciation, and development of active vocabulary in descriptive, narrative, and instructional texts.
Learning Outcomes
 After completing this course, Student Teachers will:
 Have improved their listening and reading skills in English
 Be able to communicate in written and oral English with peers and teachers
 Rely less on their first languages and increase their use of English informal and informal
situations
 Have a deeper understanding of correct English structures in descriptive, narrative, and
instructional texts.
 Plan and prepare speeches that inform, persuade, or fulfill the needs of a special occasion;
 Use presentation aids to enhance your speeches;
 Outline your speeches in a logical and thorough fashion;
 Conduct meaningful research on a variety of topics;
 Analyze your audience and design speeches to reflect your analysis;
 Evaluate speeches based on a variety of verbal and non-verbal criteria;
 Listen effectively, regardless of your interest in the subject matter
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Course requirement:
 Students are supposed to study and review the material before the class, do exercises,
assignments and fulfill the project.
 You may be late for 15 minutes and it is Ok, but after that you are marked as absent.
 Inappropriate academic behaviors such as chewing gums, making phone calls,
laughing, and joking are not tolerated.
 You need to have the course material with yourself either in electronic devices or
printed book.
 2.5 Score is reduced from the total score for each session you miss.
 You can’t have more than 4 absent sessions.
 You need to do your assignments on time.
  Every one of you is requested to actively participate in classroom discussions.
 Everyone is requested to give at least 1 presentations (every presentation lasting 45
minutes) on the topics in the syllabus.
 Everyone is requested to design a sample chapter for one of the Speaking by
Speaking research areas (you will be presenting them from session 13 onwards).

Week Topic Homework

Week 1 Introduction

Week 2 Socialization
A. Warm ups
1. Brainstorming
2. Listening
3. Useful expressions
B. Listening and speaking
1. Model dialog
2. Group work
3. Guided to speaking
C. Desecration
D. Reading and discussion
1. Small talk
2. Invitation

Grammar point
1. Definition of tense
2. Present perfect tense
3. Present perfect continuous
tense
Week 3 Appearance
A. Warm ups
1. Brainstorming
2. Listening
3. Useful expressions
B. Listening and speaking
1. Model dialog
2. Group work
3. Guided to speaking
C. Desecration
D. Reading and discussion
1. Describing appearance
2. Body image
Grammar point
1. Past perfect tense
2. Past perfect continuous
tense
Week 4 Shopping
A. Warm ups
1. Brainstorming
2. Listening
3. Useful expressions
B. Listening and speaking
1. Model dialog
2. Group work
 3. Guided to speaking
C. Desecration
D. Reading and discussion
1. Shopping at stores
2. Shopping online

Grammar point

1. Future perfect tense

2. Future perfect continuous
tense
Week 5 Negotiation
A. Warm ups
1. Brainstorming
2. Listening
3. Useful expressions
B. Listening and speaking
1. Model dialog
2. Group work
3. Guided to speaking
C. Desecration
D. Reading and discussion
1. Reaching agreement
2. Finding solutions

Grammar point

1. Definition of voice
2. Changing active to passive
sentence
3. Rules of changing active to
passive
Week 6 Culture
A. Warm ups
1. Brainstorming
2. Listening
3. Useful expressions
B. Listening and speaking
1. Model dialog
2. Group work
3. Guided to speaking
C. Desecration
D. Reading and discussion
1. Cultural gaps
2. Cultural identity

Grammar point

1. Functions of transitive verbs

2. Functions of by phrases
Week 7 Culture
A. Warm ups
1. Brainstorming
2. Listening
3. Useful expressions
B. Listening and speaking
1. Model dialog
2. Group work
 3. Guided to speaking
C. Desecration
D. Reading and discussion
1. Culture gaps
2. Cultural identity
Grammar point
1. Definition of speech
2. quit speech
a) Reported speech
b) Rules of changing sentences
Week 8 Midterm exam 20%

Week 9 The internet

A. Warm ups
1. Brainstorming
2. Listening
3. Useful expressions
B. Listening and speaking
1. Model dialog
2. Group work
3. Guided to speaking
C. Desecration
D. Reading and discussion
1. The Bright side
2. The Dark side
a) make an effective
presentation
b) Collecting data for
presentation
c) Explanation through
pictures
Week 10 Entertainment
A. Warm ups
1. Brainstorming
2. Listening
3. Useful expressions
B. Listening and speaking
1. Model dialog
2. Group work
3. Guided to speaking
C. Desecration
D. Reading and discussion
1. Hobbies
2. Sport
Interview
1. Definition of interview
2. Types of interview
3. Group interview
4. Panel interview
Week 11 Occupation
A. Warm ups
1. Brainstorming
2. Listening
3. Useful expressions
B. Listening and speaking
1. Model dialog
2. Group work
 3. Guided to speaking
C. Desecration
D. Reading and discussion
1. Job interview
2. Working

Types of letters

1. Business letters
2. Friendly letters
3. Professional
letters

Week 12 Travel
A. Warm ups
1. Brainstorming
2. Listening
3. Useful expressions
B. Listening and speaking
1. Model dialog
2. Group work
3. Guided to speaking
C. Desecration
D. Reading and discussion
1. Check out
2. Tourism

Grammar point

1. Tag Question of Affirmative

Sentences
2. Tag Question of Negative
Sentences
Week 13 Banking
A. Warm ups
1. Brainstorming
2. Listening
3. Useful expressions
B. Listening and speaking
1. Model dialog
2. Group work
3. Guided to speaking
C. Desecration
D. Reading and discussion
1. Checking
2. Bank cards
Email writing

Week 14 Health
A. Warm ups
1. Brainstorming
2. Listening
3. Useful expressions
B. Listening and speaking
1. Model dialog
2. Group work
3. Guided to speaking
 C. Desecration
D. Reading and discussion
1. Sleep
2. Illness
CV writing
Week 15 Environment
A. Warm ups
1. Brainstorming
2. Listening
3. Useful expressions
B. Listening and speaking
1. Model dialog
2. Group work
3. Guided to speaking
C. Desecration
D. Reading and discussion
1. Nature
2. Water

Week 16 Final exams

Grading:
 Class attendance and class participation10%
 Midterm exam 20%
 Class presentations: 10%
 Final exam: 60%
 Total 100%
References:
lee, G. (1967). Inside Reading and Speaking. New York: Newbury House.
Washington University: Writing Complete, Grammatically Correct Sentences:
http://faculty.washington.edu/ezent/imsc.htm#FRAGASSOCIATE DEGREE IN EDUCATION
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv302.shtml
Reported speech
BBC World Service. (2011) Learning English: Grammar Challenge: Reported Questions:
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammarchallenge
pdfs/gc_44_reported_questions.pdf
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