COURSE CODE: COMMUNICATION SKILLS 1 COURSE DESCRIPTION: Communication Skills in English I is a course designed to develop communicative skills necessary for academic study at the university level. Effective communication skills are essential for effective teaching and learning as well as coping with different life situations. It will focus on improving your ability to speak and to understand spoken English through a variety of listening‚ pronunciation‚ and speaking activities. Active participation
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or noun clause Verbs - The part of speech (or word class) that describes an action or occurrence or indicates a state of being. There are two main classes of verbs: (1) the large open class of lexical verbs (also known as main verbs or full verbs--that is‚ verbs that aren’t dependent on other verbs); and (2) the small closed class of auxiliary verbs (also called helping verbs). The two subtypes of auxiliaries are the primary auxiliaries (be‚ have‚ and do)‚ which can also act as lexical verbs‚ and the modal
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CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction Language is the medium of communications and mechanism for social interaction. It is a vehicle of expression of thoughts‚ concepts‚ principles and cultural orientation. In fact‚ it is the most indispensable element of culture. It is never possible to understand the vitalities or components‚ as well as idiosyncrasies of another culture without its medium structure and medium of communication. The English language as a dynamic medium of communication
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itself. The argument posed by VanIwagen‚ a Threeist‚ against the Twoist is known as the problem of Essential Duration; and the counterpart argument given by the Twoist is referred to as the problem of Temporary Intrinsics. VanInwagen’s (modal) argument goes as follows: One could have lived longer than did in the actually world; this must be accounted for by either‚ one having been composed of more temporal parts that actually was‚ or at least some of one’s temporal parts had a longer
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|We can go to either restaurant. | |either.....or (или....или) |Two subjects connected by both.....and take a plural|The research project will take both time and | |both/either/neither +of |verb. Both + noun + and + noun. |money. | |(тот или другой‚ один из двух‚ | |Either John or his friends are going to the beach | |любой
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1. THE GERM. LANGUAGES IN THE MOD. WORLD Languages can be classified acc. to different principles. The historical classification groups lang-s in accordance with their origin from a common linguistic ancestor. English belongs to the Germanic or Teutonic group of lang-s. The modern GL are 11 in number. They all go to ProtoGermanic. And protogerm. goes to the Indoeuropean tongues. The GL fall into: 1. East Germanic (The Gothic Lang.) – nowadays all of them are dead‚ 2. North Germanic : Swedish –
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4 Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………6 Part 1 – Grammar Review 1. Noun……………………………………………….……………………………………………………8 2. Pronoun……………………………………………………………………………………………….13 3. Adjective…………………………………………………………………..…………………………15 4. Verb ……………………………………………………………………………………………..…….17 5. Adverb ……………………………………………………………………………………………….20 6. Preposition …………………………………………………………………………………………21 7. Conjunction..………………………………………………………………………………..……23 8. Interjection..…………………………………………………………………………….………
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referring to a person or thing that has been mentioned earlier. Ex. You speak French very fluently. The teacher watched us playing basketball. He asked me to work with him. Susan likes this car. She bought it from Japan. 3. Verb A verb is a word or phrase that shows an action or a state of being. Ex. Mr. Brown is about to be here soon. These tourists are from the United Kingdom. John had a good time at Paris last week. The teacher gets me to read a book every
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I’ve been waiting here for two hours. Meaning I started waiting here two hours ago. I am still waiting here now. Form Subject + have/has + past participle (been) + present perfect continuous Pronunciation Contraction of I and have – I’ve Been – weak /i/ Waiting - /wei/ Eliciting Show picture 1 of myself sat at a table with a knife and fork in my hands with a big clock in the background. The time on the clock is 7pm. I am happy. Ask: Am I waiting for food? Yes Show picture 2
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| |Verb |Discuss‚ remember‚ feel‚ gallop‚ text annoy | |Adjective |Unhappy‚ beautiful‚ tiny‚ mad‚ happy | |Adverb |Fast‚ still‚ hopefully‚ quickly | closed- ‘function words’ – determiners vs auxiliary. Determiners: numbers‚ quantities‚ pronouns‚ prepositions‚ conjuctions‚ etc Auxiliary: modal |Type |Examples
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