Course Content and Assessment Chart C1 (Foundation English First Semester)
Course Content and Assessment Chart C1 (Foundation English First Semester)
C1
Test Types (Refer to the
test specification chart
Assessment
List of Lessons Themes Reading Skills for the number and type
Method
of the questions for each
assessment method)
Reading and understanding short informative texts Midterm Exam Matching
Reading for the main idea and for detail (Written) Multiple Choice
Lesson 1 Behaviour Note-taking (1) - organizing key information 50% Fill-in-the-blanks
Using notes to write a summary Completion
Sentence structure Frequent sentence patterns True/False
Understanding and extracting key factual Jumbled
information in a text sentences
Recognizing and writing definitions Scrambled
Lesson 2 Sustainability Summarizing key factual information in a text paragraphs
Sentence structure Simple definitions Recognition
Noun phrases Adjective + noun
Noun + prepositional phrase
Identifying main ideas and supporting evidence in a text
Building word families
Lesson 3 Creativity Using adverbs to express stance
Word families
Expressing stance: Adverbs
identifying the purpose and structure of a text
Lesson 4 Information Using classification to make notes as you read
Paraphrasing (2): Noun and verb transformations
Identifying the argument and structure of a text
Identifying cohesive language
Lesson 5 Patterns Identifying hedging language
Cohesion: Reference words
Hedging language (1): Modal verbs, verbs, adverbials
Lesson 6 Responsibility Popular academic texts: Predicting the content of a text from
visual information.
Understanding a description of a process in a text
Identifying and using signposting
Language for describing a process.
Transitive and intransitive verbs
Signposting language (3): different grammatical forms to link text