General English

Dubai, Sharjah, Abudhabi

Details

Class size: 3 to 10 students
Training type: group course
Class duration: 2 hours
Schedule: Monday to Thursday

Outline

General English training with UIT is open to all students from different backgrounds and levels. We ensure to train students more effectively to improve their language skills with more fun and different learning experience. And our friendly team of faculties will help in create a dynamic environment to develop confidence. The main focus of this course is to improve communication skills along with providing guidance to enhance reading, writing and grammar.

About the teachers

We have the best qualified faculties to ensure most effective training that facilitates you and all other students to receive the best language experience.

General English Course Outline

Duration: 30 hours Each

Areas & Objectives

Speaking and Interaction Objectives

  • Able to converse and reply on familiar topics
  • Able to use simple phrases to place of interest and people

Listening Objectives

  • Understanding common words, basic phrases and its usage
  • Introducing yourself, about family and immediate surroundings

Reading Objectives

  • Able to understand familiar names, words very simple sentences for example on notices and posters or in catalogues

Writing objectives

  • Able to frame short sentences, simple post card

Grammar Syllabus

  • Present simple
  • Pronouns
  • Articles
  • Prepositions of place and time
  • Conjunctions/ linkers: and /but/because/ or
  • Irregular plurals
  • Possessive adjectives
  • Too/ very
  • Can (ability/ possibility)
  • Short form answers
  • Going to (future plans)
  • Will (offers)
  • Imperatives
  • Superlatives
  • Irregular adverbs

Vocabulary and Topical Syllabus

  • Numbers (cardinal/ ordinal) and money
  • Countries, nationalities and languages
  • Times
  • Days, dates, months, years and seasons
  • Shops and paces
  • Interests, sports and activities
  • Jobs
  • Rooms and furniture
  • Colors
  • Size and weight
  • Body parts and appearances
  • Food, meals, cooking
  • Weather
  • Transport
  • Health
  • Feelings and emotions
  • Street directions
  • Clothes

Functional Syllabus

  • Greetings and introducing
  • Buying and asking prices
  • Asking about personal information
  • Describing people and objects
  • Telling the time
  • Talking about routines
  • Talking about frequency and time duration
  • Talking about likes and dislikes
  • Giving opinions
  • Talking about past experiences
  • Inviting/ refusing/ accepting/ thanking
  • Requesting/ offering
  • Asking permission
  • Giving instructions
  • Talking about future arrangements
  • Applying for a job

Areas & Objectives

Speaking and Interaction Objectives

  • Ability to deal with most situations where people speak in English
  • Talk about family, hobbies, work, travel and current events.
  • Give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

Speaking and Interaction Objectives

  • Understand the main points on television or similar broadcast.
  • Understand the main points of casual conversations in English.

Reading Objectives

  • Understand common, basic or job-related language
  • Understand the description of events, feelings and wishes in personal letters

Writing Objectives

  • Write about familiar topics
  • Write personal letters describing experiences and impressions

Grammar Syllabus

  • Present Simple
  • Present Continuous
  • Comparative and Superlative
  • Past simple
  • Past Simple Continuous
  • Present Perfect
  • Going to and will for predictions and future events and spontaneous events
  • Adverbs of frequency and manner
  • Reflexive pronouns
  • So/such
  • Have to/ need to for obligation
  • Present Simple
  • Passive
  • When/while
  • Must/ might for deductions
  • As soon as
  • Be able to/ good at
  • Although/ however
  • First conditional
  • Used to adverb
  • Relative clauses

Vocabulary and Topical Syllabus

  • Education
  • Appearances
  • Consumer services
  • Affixes
  • Hotel facilities
  • Holidays and Travel brochures
  • Biographical information
  • Types of music and concert

Functional Syllabus

  • Talking about routines, habits, intentions
  • Making decisions
  • Apologizing
  • Congratulating
  • Expressing hopes
  • Making comparisons
  • Talking about feelings
  • Giving instructions
  • Describing experiences
  • Describing objects
  • Talking about possibility

Areas & Objectives

Speaking and Interaction Objectives

  • Able to use English fluently
  • Confident communicational skills in any situations
  • Able to reply properly to the conversations and questions
  • Good command over language to initiate conversation

Listening Objectives

  • Understand complex speech
  • Understand television programs and conversations

Reading Objectives

  • Understanding writings and complicated passages with different styles
  • Understanding articles and long technical instructions

Writing Objectives

  • Writing well-structured texts and framing sentences without grammatical errors
  • Writing letters, essay and report and mails

Grammar Syllabus

  • Habit in the present and the past
  • Present perfect simple and present perfect continuous
  • Past simple and past continuous and past perfect question tags
  • Will, going to, present simple, present continuous for the future
  • Future perfect
  • Phrasal verbs
  • Zero, first, second and third conditionals
  • Passive
  • Reported speech
  • Relative clauses
  • Conjunctions: although, despite, in spite of, otherwise, unless
  • Modals: present and perfect

Vocabulary and Topical Syllabus

  • Affixes
  • Collocations
  • Work, working conditions
  • Approximations with –ish
  • Transport and explorations
  • Phrasal verbs
  • Crime and punishment
  • Relationships
  • Festival and celebrations
  • Colloquial
  • Homonyms
  • Idiomatic expressions
  • Sport and leisure
  • Euphemisms
  • Adverbs of manner and modifiers
  • Geography and climate
  • Participle adjectives
  • Banks/ money
  • Colloquial expressions and slang

Functional Syllabus

  • Giving opinions
  • Summarizing
  • Expressing regret
  • Drawing conclusions
  • Making offers
  • Describing cause and effect
  • Stating purpose • Emphasizing
  • Stating contrast
  • Adding information
  • Congratulating
  • Commiserating
  • Clarifying

Areas & Objectives

Speaking and Interaction Objectives

  • Fluent communication, with sound knowledge in idiomatic expressions.
  • Ability to carry forward a smoothly flowing description or argument with respect to the context.

Listening objectives

  • Ability to understand regular conversations made by a native English Language speaker.

Reading objectives

  • Easily able to read quite complex texts in real time situations

Writing Objectives

  • Will be able to easily communicate your thoughts easily in writing, particularly in letters, essays etc.

Grammar Syllabus

  • Nouns and Pronouns
  • Verbs
  • Adverbs
  • Tenses
  • Participles
  • Ellipsis and elision
  • Question tags
  • Relative clauses
  • Mixed conditionals
  • Inversions and negative adverbials
  • Reported speech
  • Countable/uncountable nouns
  • Use of should in advice
  • Use of have to/ need to for obligations
  • Adverbs of frequency and manner

Vocabulary and Topical Syllabus

  • Advertisement & Marketing
  • Types of communication
  • Environmental issues
  • Current affairs
  • Children’s development
  • Architecture
  • Coincidences and experiences
  • Eccentricity and Individuality

Functional Syllabus

  • Paraphrasing
  • Expressing regrets, annoyance
  • Expanding & exemplifying
  • Speculating words, phrases
  • Comparisons & contrasting
  • Possibility, probability, certainty
  • Expressing preferences
  • Obligations
  • Negations in speech
  • Making predictive statements

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