Language Awareness Course
Reach Out GCC’s Language Awareness Course is a focused and in-depth course designed to enhance your understanding of English grammar.
Two Modules
Participants must complete Module 1 before advancing to Module 2 unless they pass a placement test allowing direct entry into the second module.
Flexible Options
Both part-time and full-time schedules are offered, led by expert tutors for a flexible learning experience.
Who Should Enroll in This Course?
The Language Awareness course at Reach Out GCC is ideal for:
Course Goals
- Developed an understanding of essential sentence elements.
- Acquired skills to connect sentences and their components in a coherent way.
- Gained clarity on the roles and forms of different sentence structures.
- Expanded their knowledge of English grammar terminology.
- Strengthened their comprehension of core English grammar rules and patterns.
Course Outline
Module One: Understanding Basic Sentence Structure (Total: 36 Hours)
This module covers the following key topics:
Basic Sentence Structure
- Part 1 (6 hours)
- Noun phrases and verb phrases (3 hours)
- Adverbials, direct, and indirect objects (3 hours)
- Part 1 assessment
- Part 2 (6 hours)
- Complements and complement verbs, distinctions between complements and objects (3 hours)
- Dummy subjects (3 hours)
- Part 2 assessment
Advanced Sentence Structure
- Part 1 (6 hours)
- Fronting (adverbials, complements, direct objects) (3 hours)
- Clefting and pseudo-clefting (3 hours)
- Part 1 assessment
- Part 2 (9 hours)
- Active vs. passive voice (3 hours)
- Causative structures in the passive voice (3 hours)
- Conditional structures (3 hours)
- Part 2 assessment
- Part 3 (9 hours)
- Discourse markers (2 sessions, 6 hours)
- Ellipsis and substitution (3 hours)
- Part 3 assessment
At the end of this module, participants must pass the Module 1 test before moving on to Module 2.
Module Two: Mastering Complex Sentence Structures (Total: 18 Hours)
This module includes the following sections:
Advanced Sentence Structures 1
- Part 1 (9 hours)
- Finite adverbial clauses (3 hours)
- Noun clauses (3 hours)
- Relative clauses (3 hours)
- Part 1 assessment
Advanced Sentence Structures 2
- Part 2 (9 hours)
- Non-finite clauses (3 hours)
- Defining and non-defining clauses and phrases (Part I) (3 hours)
- Defining and non-defining clauses and phrases (Part II) (3 hours)
- Part 2 assessment
A final test will be given at the end of both modules.
