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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 MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | Mode of Delivery | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | Lecturer | -- | Co-Lecturer | | 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 department, to supply them to understand what the branch is interested in, the importance of the field, its significance in the contemporary world and to comprehend a passage and express what they understand in English verbally and in prose. |
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. | 7 | 1,3 | LO - 2 : | learn the basic words used in their field and translate the articles from mother tongue to English or vice versa. | 7 | 1,3 | LO - 3 : | make sentences and write essays related to the significance in their field. | 7 | 1,3 | LO - 4 : | make some presentations and evaluations. | 7 | 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 | |
Reading texts related to the department; grammar activities; related vocabulary and translation between two languages; listening actitivites; discussions over the related current topics in the field |
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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 | 08/04/2022 | 0.5 | 50 | End-of-term exam | 16 | 20/05/2022 | 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 | 1 | 14 | 14 | 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 | | | 50 |
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