Course Description:
This is an advanced reading course designed to develop students’ comprehension skills. Each unit contains reading
passages followed by exercises to enforce learners' comprehension skills. The course fulfills the twin objectives of
developing the comprehension skills of students and equipping them to read and understand texts of different types,
literary and otherwise. In this course students will be exposed to a wide selection of passages ranging from fiction to
poetry and factual/informational texts. There are exercises to test factual and inferential comprehension and to develop
the predictive skills of the users, as well as understand a writers’ tone and purpose of their essay.
Course Objectives:
- Develop and refine comprehension skills.
- Effectively demonstrate their understanding of facts and ideas such as organizing, comparing, translating,
interpreting, describing, paraphrasing, and extracting the main ideas from an essay.
- Correctly answer direct questions with short answers and multiple-choice questions.
- Effectively reproduce the acquired information.