Please join us on Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 for the Welcoming session organized by the department of English. Click the link below to join the meeting! All the details concerning the Online Licence FAD will be explained in this session.
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Meeting link : https://meet.google.com/gcf-fjci-bbw
Please, open the document in order to check the planning of lectures during the first semester (2023-2024)
Course Description:
This course is meant to improve the student's reading skills. Reading can be a tricky activity and is one of the four essential skills necessary for every EFL. In this course you will be studying different texts of several backgrounds and thinking about their inherent meanings. The course also covers vocabulary teaching and reflective thinking.
Teacher in Charge : Dr Meryem MENGOUCHI
Course Objectives:
Targetted Audience: L1 Online English Licence (FAD)
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Number of weeks : Four Weeks
Credits: 4
Coef: 2
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: HybridA good knowledge of the English language is compulsory in this course. Before attending this class, a general revision of the English grammar and writing is required from the student. The course targets the learner's ability to read, analyze, and extract meanings from a text.
A minimum of 20 minute reading is required from the learner in each lecture. The learner needs to read a text twice. The first reading serves the learner to discover the text, the second reading allows this latter to extract meanings and to reflect on the general goal of the author/speaker.
A set of questions are asked to the learner for the sake of triggering their reflective thinking. The learner answers the questions then develops his or her own conclusions.
The learner shows understanding of the text through a series of tasks done by the end of the session that are submitted to the teacher after each class.
This is a short test to evaluate your knowledge of the language and to prepare you for the course. Please take your time and answer all the questions to help your teacher evaluate your reading skills.
Read the text below and answer the following questions:
For the first 60 years of film productions, movies were shown only in
black and white. Movie screens were painted with a
silver metallic paint that made the pictures easier to see.
Although movie screens are no longer painted with silver
paint, the term silver screen is sometimes used to
describe the movie business.
In these early days of movies, films were wound on
big reels and run
through projectors.
Dust on the lens of
the projector and
other problems could
cause the picture to
flicker. This is how
movies came to be
called flicks.
Course Description:
This course includes two steps. The first step is a silent reading of the text entitled the Historical Text: Puritanism, and reflection on the main questions connected to the text. The second part is an analysis of the text that is conducted after the students make their own view of the excerpt. The text is an exploration of the Historical text, its structure, goals, and method of analysis.
Teacher in Charge : Dr Meryem MENGOUCHI
Course Objectives:
Targetted Audience: L1 Online English Licence (FAD)
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: OnlineCourse Description:
This lecture includes two steps. The first step is a silent reading of the song entitled Hotel California, and reflection on the main questions connected to the text. The second part is an analysis of the text. The students express their thoughts and interpretations of the meaning of the song, then using expressions from the text, they are requested to explain the different references that are alluded to by the author. The learners are also exposed to a different type of text, which is the ballad, as a form of poetry. They also learn the different types of figures of speech and extract them from the text.
Teacher in Charge : Dr Meryem MENGOUCHI
Course Objectives:
Targetted Audience: L1 Online English Licence (FAD)
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: OnlineCourse Description:
This lecture is an analysis of the narrative text as a distinct form of writing. The learners are first requested to do a silent reading of the text entitled Oscar Wilde' The Happy Prince. The text presents a story and a moral. The learners are asked to comment on the text by providing their first thoughts and interpretations then extracting morals.
Teacher in Charge : Dr Meryem MENGOUCHI
Course Objectives:
Targetted Audience: L1 Online English Licence (FAD)
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: OnlineDescription:
The Spanish Flu is a journalistic / argumentative text that includes a presentation of the problem in the introduction, followed by a list of arguments covering different aspects of the topic and the results. The text aims at providing an overview of the sickness and its impact during a certain period of time.
Teacher in Charge : Dr Meryem MENGOUCHI
Course Objectives:
Targetted Audience: L1 Online English Licence (FAD)
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Creadits: 4
Coef: 2
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: OnlineSudents must be able to understand arguments in a text and to distinguish a personal opinion from a scientific/objective fact. Learners should also be able to identify an author's perspective and the main thesis statement in a text.
Description:
The text in hand is a chronicle, it may also be considered as a a book review because it includes expressions of personal opinion (using the first person pronoun) and it reflects the contents of a book referring to each chapter separately. The text is also informative. It exposes data based on scientific research and experimentation.
Teacher in Charge : Dr Meryem MENGOUCHI
Course Objectives:
Targetted Audience: L1 Online English Licence (FAD)
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Creadits: 4
Coef: 2
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: OnlineDEADLINE 09/12/2023 16:45
Download this task sheet, complete the task, then send the task sheet to meriem.men@gmail.com
Use as subject of your email: Task 1: Music Maladies
Read the text below then download Task Sheet 2 and complete the exercices
Deadline 10/12/2023 17:00 p.m
In our modern world, there are many factors that place the wellbeing of the planet in jeopardy. While some people have the opinion that environmental problems are just a natural occurrence, others believe that human beings have a huge impact on the environment. Regardless of your viewpoint, take into consideration the following factors that place our environment as well as the planet Earth in danger.
Global warming or climate change is a major contributing factor to environmental damage. Because of global warming, we have seen an increase in melting ice caps, a rise in sea levels, and the formation of new weather patterns. These weather patterns have caused stronger storms, droughts, and flooding in places that they formerly did not occur.
Air pollution is primarily caused as a result of excessive and unregulated emissions of carbon dioxide into the air. Pollutants mostly emerge from the burning of fossil fuels in addition to chemicals, toxic substances, and improper waste disposal. Air pollutants are absorbed into the atmosphere, and they can cause smog, a combination of smoke and fog, in valleys as well as produce acidic precipitation in areas far away from the pollution source.
In many areas, people and local governments do not sustainably use their natural resources. Mining for natural gases, deforestation, and even improper use of water resources can have tremendous effects on the environment. While these strategies often attempt to boost local economies, their effects can lead to oil spills, interrupted animal habitats, and droughts.
Ultimately, the effects of the modern world on the environment can lead to many problems. Human beings need to consider the repercussions of their actions, trying to reduce, reuse, and recycle materials while establishing environmentally sustainable habits. If measures are not taken to protect the environment, we can potentially witness the extinction of more endangered species, worldwide pollution, and a completely uninhabitable planet.
Description:
The text "War of the Worlds" is a review and short critical analysis of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds. It provides a summary of the novel as well as an exploration of its genre. It slips certain personal opinions of the author that are backed by direct quotations from the novel as part of the critic's analysis. In the final section of the text, the author explores the impact and reception of the novel on popular media.
Teacher in Charge : Dr Meryem MENGOUCHI
Course Objectives:
Targetted Audience: L1 Online English Licence (FAD)
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Creadits: 4
Coef: 2
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: OnlineDescription:
The text under analysis is a scientific paper. It presents an introduction to the topic and the general field of linguistics first, then slides from one argument to another with and against the initial thesis. Finally, the concluding paragraph closes the debate using scienific arguments.
Teacher in Charge : Dr Meryem MENGOUCHI
Course Objectives:
Targetted Audience: L1 Online English Licence (FAD)
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Creadits: 4
Coef: 2
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: OnlineCourse Description:
The Second semester syllabus focuses on the ways and approaches to reading.
Teacher in Charge : Dr Meryem MENGOUCHI
Course Objectives:
Targetted Audience: L1 Online English Licence (FAD)
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Creadits: 4
Coef: 2
Semester: 2
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: OnlineCourse Description:
The text under analysis is a scientific text that exposes data about a natural phenomenon. The text includes important information, examples, and smaller details that the learner must understand and learn to use for future research.
Teacher in Charge : Dr Meryem MENGOUCHI
Course Objectives:
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Creadits: 4
Coef: 2
Semester: 2
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: OnlineCourse Description:
The text under analysis is a short story. The course aims at training students on reading the short story genre and conducting a literary analysis based on theme, characterization, figurative language, and authorial intention.
Teacher in Charge : Dr Meryem MENGOUCHI
Course Objectives:
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Creadits: 4
Coef: 2
Semester: 2
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: OnlineCourse Description:
The text under analysis is a criticism and analysis of a character archetype in a film. The author provides his own thoughts on film and representation of the hero figure. The lecture aims at familiarizing learners to reading reviews and criticism in order to use them in their research and future papers.
Teacher in Charge : Dr Meryem MENGOUCHI
Course Objectives:
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Creadits: 4
Coef: 2
Semester: 2
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: OnlineCourse Description:
This lecture aims at teaching the basic reading , smmarzing and paraphrasing skills as basics for any EFL in their freshmen year. The text is an exploration of the definitions of these important concepts. The learners are asked to reflect on them, analyse them, then reproduce them in their own words thus practising the skills they are learning.
Teacher in Charge : Dr Meryem MENGOUCHI
Course Objectives:
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Creadits: 4
Coef: 2
Semester: 2
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: OnlineCourse Description:
This lecture is a sequel of lecture four. It aims at teaching the basic summarzing, paraphrasing, and note-taking skills based on the Cornell Note-taking model as basics for young EFLs. The learners are exposed to effective note-taking methods that teach them effectve reading, through recording, reducing, reciting, reflecting, and reviewing the material. The practice at the end of the session shall reflect the learners' maturity in this regard.
Teacher in Charge : Dr Meryem MENGOUCHI
Course Objectives:
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Creadits: 4
Coef: 2
Semester: 2
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: OnlineCourse Description:
This lecture includes a historical text extracted from a famous newspaper. It presents an overview of a certain category f women that has existed through a period of time. The text is thus of an informative nature. The objective is to train learners on extracting relevant information from the text, building their own arguments about the topic, and re-writing the text in their own words after deep understanding
Teacher in Charge : Dr Meryem MENGOUCHI
Course Objectives:
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Creadits: 4
Coef: 2
Semester: 2
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: OnlineDear students
In this discussion board we will analyze and discuss your reflections and responses to the different texts we will deal with.