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| YDB1004 | English - II | 2+0+0 | ECTS:2 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of STATISTICS and COMPUTER SCIENCES | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Öğr. Gör. Dr Kazım BABACAN | | Co-Lecturer | Instructor Dr. Kazım Babacan | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The course aims to enable the students with an overall knowledge on the basis of grammatical points of English language and express what they understand in English verbally. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | comprehend the texts chosen from various technical topics and make sentences in their fields, write an essay. | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 | 1,3 | | LO - 2 : | learn the basic words used in their field and translate the articles from mother tongue to English or vice versa. | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 | 1,3 | | LO - 3 : | make sentences and write essays related to the significance in their field. | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 | 1,3 | | LO - 4 : | make some presentations and evaluations. | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 | 1,3 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Sentence structures related to tenses in English, reading and listening texts, writing exercises |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Education and Life; Description, using context clues, suffix -wide | | | Week 2 | City Life; Expositon, using context clues, skimming for main ideas | | | Week 3 | Business and money; words with similar meaning, contrast | | | Week 4 | Jobs and professions; adjective and noun phrases; participles as adjectives | | | Week 5 | Lifestyles around the world; dictionary entries, understanding idioms | | | Week 6 | Global Connections; understanding outlines, making inferences | | | Week 7 | Langugage and Communication; distinguishing facts from from theories, categorizing | | | Week 8 | Tastes and preferences; incresing reading speed, predicting reading content | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | New Frontiers; prefixes and suffixes, summarizing | | | Week 11 | Medicine, Myths and Magic; scanning for information, getting meaning from context | | | Week 12 | The Media; using context clues, writing topic sentece | | | Week 13 | With Liberty and Justice for all; finding important details | | | Week 14 | Language and Learning; essay analysis, identifying exact words | | | Week 15 | Sex and Gender; using context and structure clues, paraphrasing theme or main idea | | | Week 16 | Final exam | | | |
| 1 | Velioğlu, A., Kandiller, B. 1996; Reader at work-1-2, METU, Ankara | | | |
| 1 | Malarcher C., Janzen A. 2004; Reading for the Real World 1-2, Great Britain | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 12/04/2023 | 0.5 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 02/06/2023 | 0.5 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 2 | 12 | 24 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Kısa sınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 3 | 1 | 3 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Total work load | | | 60 |
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