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COURSE OUTLINE
A. COURSE IDENTITY
Tittle : General English Schedule : Thursday
Credit : 2 Hours : 08.00 09.40
Code : BHAY 315 Room : 38
Program : Biology Instructor : Kuzairi, M.Pd
Semester : I and VII Phone : 0878 5067 3437
Class : 01 e-mail : spirit.ahmadkzr@gmail.com

B. COURSE OBJECTIVES
At the end of this course, students are expected to have solid understanding and be able to
apply some linguistic skills and components as folllows:
Listening
Students are able to comprehend and response some linguistic features dealing with asking
questions, .making complaints and appointments, directions and describing place and
having job interviews.
Reading
Students are able to understand the topic, main ideas and supporting ideas of a text,
finding a new information from the text dealing with the topics, and comprehend and read
a post card, jobs and training advertisements.
Speaking
Students are able to recognize and apply several linguistic features and expressions in their
daily life correctly and appropriately.. They are able to communicate in terms of
introducing themselves and other people, talking about present activity, offering and
requesting, describing place, aggreing and disaggreing, making complaints and
appointments, having job interviews.
Writing
Students are able to express in written form appropriately dealing with filling a form,
describing people, place and process, writing adverbs and punctuation correctly, writing a
formal and informal letters, e-mail and CVs applicants.
Grammar
Students are able to understand and apply some grammatical focus both on in spoken or
written forms dealing using appropriate tenses, differentiating between do and be,
differentiating coutable and uncountable nouns, using adverb and adjectives comparation
degree appropriately, and understanding and using the phrasal verbs.
Pronunciation
Students are able to pronounce a word, phrase, sentences appropriately in terms of
syllables identifying, word stressing and intonation, word endings, silent letters and short
forms.
C. COURSE TOPICS

No Topics Skills & Components Refecrences

Introduction and
1 Introducing and Sharing Ideas about the Course SAP
Overview
Speaking: introducing yourself and others Module 1
Speaking and listening: asking questions Azar: 3
Introductions
Writing: filling in forms
2 Family, Friendship
Grammar Present Simple, Do vs Be, Adverbs
and Romance
of frequency
Pronunciation: identifying syllables
Speaking and listening: classroom instructions, Module 2
asking and answering about transport and travel Azar: 5
Classroom language
Writing: describing places
Instructions
3 Reading: postcards
Describing people
Grammar: there is/are, have/has got,
Transport
Imperatives
Pronunciation: word stress
Whats happening Speaking: talking about present activity Module 3
now and around now Writing: describing a process Azar: 4
4 Eating and drinking Grammar: present continuous
Containers There is/are + -ing
Likes and dislikes Pronunciation: identifying syllables
Speaking: life stories Module 4
Reading: relatives from the city Azar: 8 & 9
Speaking and listening: restaurants
Famous people
5 Writing: adverbs
In the house
Grammar: past simple, Time expressions
Adverbs of degree
Pronunciation: verb endings
Speaking and listening: recent events; getting Module 5
ready Azar: 15
Cause and effect
Reading: shopping around the world
Clothes
6 Writing: punctuation
Shopping
Grammar: present perfect (1), Possessives,
Short forms, yet and still
Pronunciation: short forms
Speaking: offering and requesting Module 6
Quantity and Speaking and listening: complaints, making an Azar: 7
measurement appointment
7 Areas of study Listening: in a library
Health and the body Writing: informal letters and emails Grammar:
Appointments Countable and Uncountable Nouns, Quantifiers,
Present Perfect (2)
Reading and listening: global warming Module 7
Prediction and
Speaking and listening: directions and places Azar 11
probability
Speaking: contradicting
8 Global warming
Writing: formal letters and emails
Places and directions
Grammar: will, might,
Pronunciation: silent letters
9 UTS
 Reading and speaking: identifying missing Module 8
World records information Azar: 16
Free time Writing: linking words
10 Sports Grammar: Comparatives, Degrees of
Ability comparison, Superlatives, Comparing quantity,
good at
Pronunciation: sentence stress
Permission, Speaking: enquiring about rules Module 9
necessity and Listening: Sabay; song: Blowing in the Wind Azar: 13
prohibition Writing: CVs; job applications
11 Advice Reading: job and training advertisements
Jobs and careers Grammar: Modals, have/has to, some/any +
Metaphor thing/where/one
Pronunciation: -er and or endings
Biographies Speaking: describing people Module 10
Describing people: Reading: biography; poem: The Wicked Azar: 9
feelings, Postman
character, Writing: autobiographies
12
appearance, Grammar: The past continuous, when, while
age and during, Manner and state adjectives
Countries -ed and -ing adjectives
Pronunciation: countries and nationalities
Speaking: agreeing and disagreeing Module 11
Future plans Reading: the internet Azar: 10 & 14
Probability Listening: songs:
13 Arrangements Writing: developing an argument
Geography Grammar: going to, The present continuous
for the future, No one/nothing/nowhere
Pronunciation: word endings
Experience Speaking and listening: job interviews Module 12
The arts Speaking: small talk 1-3
14
Grammar: The passive, Present Perfect(3),
been and gone.
Speaking : Appropriate and inappropriate topic Module 12 Part
Writing: charts and statistics; listing 4 -8
15 Social chat
Grammar:Phrasal Verbs
Pronunciation: intonation
16 UAS

D. INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS
1. Lecturing
2. Question and Answer
3. Role Play
4. Presentation
5. Group Discussion
E. EVALUATION
1. Active Attendance and Participation 20%
2. Quiz / Assignments 20%
3. UTS 30%
4. UAS / Project 30%
F. REFERENCES
Azar, B.S. & Hagen, S.A. 2006. Basic English Grammar. White Plains: Pearson
Education.
____. 2009. General English. An English Language Course for adult and Post 10
Learners. Pre-Intermediate Module. The Curriculum Project.
(www.curriculumproject.org)
Other Relevant References.

Banjarmasin, September 2015

Dosen Pengasuh,

Kuzairi, M.Pd.