SEMESTER III

This course serves as a progression from Expository and Analytical Writing. Its primary goal is to enhance students' proficiency in argumentative writing, a skill with broad applications in their personal, academic, and professional endeavors. Within the context of this course, argumentative writing is employed to persuasively communicate with an audience in a well-reasoned manner, utilizing critical thinking skills to construct compelling, rational, and convincing written arguments. The course places particular emphasis on the writing process, including the development of content, organization, and the structure of paragraphs and essays.

Instruction and learning activities in this course encompass several components. These include concise teacher presentations, interactive discussions involving both students and the teacher, as well as student practices in the form of essay writing workshops. Alongside these activities, there are in-class assignments, sessions dedicated to analytical reading, and peer review exercises, in addition to the creation of extended essays outside of the regular class sessions.

Develop the students’ ability to understand spoken English of Pre Advanced level: literal,
inferential, and evaluate comprehension of dialogues, narrative and expository types of
texts, comprehension of main ideas and details, note-taking, summarizing.