Reading Comprehension
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Welcome to our students in online lectures of English (FAD)
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.
F.A.D Welcome Day
Google Meet
Meeting link : https://meet.google.com/gcf-fjci-bbw
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Please, open the document in order to check the planning of lectures during the first semester (2023-2024)
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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:
- Enhancing the students ability to read criticially
- widening the students prospects and reinforcing their ability to understanding words in different contexts
- Learning the use of vocabulary and mastering semantic differences
- Building the learners' ability to skim and scan any text, extract the main ideas, and distinguishing them from the supporting ideas.
Targetted Audience: L1 Online English Licence (FAD)
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Number of weeks : Four Weeks
Credits: 4
Coef: 2
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: Hybrid-
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A 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.
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Receive a grade
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.
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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:
- Enhancing the students ability to read the historical text criticially
- Extracting historical facts from the text (events that are stated directly and indirectly).
- Analysis of the different parts of the text and their roles in providing the information
- Extraction of commonly used terms and their meanings in the context of the text.
Targetted Audience: L1 Online English Licence (FAD)
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: Online -
Course 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:
- Discovering the ballad as a form of writing, its structure, and basic elements.
- Familirizing the learners with the different figures of speech and training them on their use
- Understanding inherent meanings and learning to explain them through the extraction and analysis of the different figures used in the text.
- Relating the ideas extracted from the text to the historical period of its publication and understanding the author's intentions based on their cultural context.
Targetted Audience: L1 Online English Licence (FAD)
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: Online -
Course 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:
- Familiarizing the learners with the narrative text.
- Raising the students' ability to read critically about fictional narratives
- Exposing the students to the goals and structure of the narrative text
- Exercising the analysis and interpretations of texts through the study of figures of speech
- Reflecting on the use of common terms and their meanings in different contexts.
Targetted Audience: L1 Online English Licence (FAD)
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: Online -
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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:
- Familiarizing the learners with the argumentative text and the report.
- Identifying the roles of each paragraph in the argumentative text
- Exposing the learners to the goals and structure of the argumentative text
- Learning to extract historical/scientific data for use
- Introduction to scientific and medical vocabulary
Targetted Audience: L1 Online English Licence (FAD)
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Creadits: 4
Coef: 2
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: Online-
Sudents 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.
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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:
- A study and knowledge of the scientific/medical vocabulary
- Training learners on identifying arguments in a text based on their occurrence in the paragraphs.
- Familiarizing the learners with methods to reading and understanding the argumentative text and the report.
- Identifying the roles of each paragraph in the argumentative text
- Identification of implicit personal opinions
Targetted Audience: L1 Online English Licence (FAD)
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Creadits: 4
Coef: 2
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: Online-
DEADLINE 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
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Read the text below then download Task Sheet 2 and complete the exercices
Deadline 10/12/2023 17:00 p.m
The Environment
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.
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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:
- A study of the literary review as a distinct form of text.
- Training learners on identifying the goals of the different paragraphs based on their content.
- Familiarizing the learners with basic literary terms.
- Emphasizing the difference between the narrative original text and the summary
- identification of the voice of the speaker in the text.
Targetted Audience: L1 Online English Licence (FAD)
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Creadits: 4
Coef: 2
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: Online -
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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:
- Learning to read the scientific paper and distinguishing such writing from the chronicle, report, and the review.
- Identification of scientific arguments
- Learning the value and use of citations
- Identifying the goal of a research paper
Targetted Audience: L1 Online English Licence (FAD)
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Creadits: 4
Coef: 2
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: Online -
Course Description:
The Second semester syllabus focuses on the ways and approaches to reading.
Teacher in Charge : Dr Meryem MENGOUCHI
Course Objectives:
- Familiarizing students with the different forms of texts and approaches to reading
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: Online -
Course 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:
- Summarizing skills
- Identifying important details and additional information
- Learning skimming and scanning to extract important information
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Creadits: 4
Coef: 2
Semester: 2
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: Online -
Course 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:
- Understanding characters and message in a narrative text
- Extraction of Symbols and their interpretations
- Extraction of the elements of a literary genre
- Learning to understand and analyse implicit meanings.
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Creadits: 4
Coef: 2
Semester: 2
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: Online -
Course 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:
- Extraction of arguments and identification of the role and objective of each paragraph separately
- Understanding the author's intentions from the structure and organization f their ideas
- The Extraction of theoretical terms and concepts as well as their meanings
- The identification of Evidence in a critical essay
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Creadits: 4
Coef: 2
Semester: 2
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: Online -
Course 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:
- Learning different reading strategies, merely skimming, scanning, analysis
- Mastery of summary writing with identification f the key elements
- learning to combine ideas, finding alternative words, identifying the purpose of a text, reduction and selection of relevant information
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Creadits: 4
Coef: 2
Semester: 2
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: Online -
Course 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:
- Training students on using cues for their ideas
- Recitation of cues and tips as a method to record ideas
- Learning careful reading through the separation between skimming and scanning strategies
- Selection of relevant information for reproduction
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Creadits: 4
Coef: 2
Semester: 2
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: Online -
Course 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:
- Emphasis on new and scientific vocabulary
- exposition of scientific and verified data
- Training students on the effective use of quotations and references
- Identifying relevant information and details
- Learning to identify and distinguish examples and extra-information as opposed to arguments and scientific data
Weekly Workload: 3 hours
Creadits: 4
Coef: 2
Semester: 2
Number of weeks : One week
Teaching Modality: Online
Evaluation: Online-
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Dear students
In this discussion board we will analyze and discuss your reflections and responses to the different texts we will deal with.
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