Department of English

University of Cihan - Sulaimanyah

Subject: Communicative English II

2nd Year / 1st Semester

Course Book

Lecturer's name: Mustafa Khalid

MA

Academic Year: 2022/2023

 Course Book
1. Course name Communicative English II
2. Lecturer in charge Mr. Mustafa Khalid Saleh
3. Department/ College Department of English
4. Contact e-mail: mksalrawi88@gmail.com
Tel:
5. Time (in hours) per week For example, Theory: 1
Practical: 1
6. Office hours
7. Course code
8. Teacher's academic
profile

9. Keywords Communication
10. Course overview:

This course adopts the modern communicative approach in Teaching English

which tends to develop the students' skills (speaking, reading, and writing) in
their elementary levels and introduces different topics including different
grammatical rules. These rules are presented in a simple way that guarantees
students mastering of them. It also includes some reading passages full of new
terms and words which enrich students' package of vocabulary.
Real Listening and Speaking 3 contains practical tasks to help the students
in everyday listening and speaking situations, e.g. at the shops, in a restaurant
or travelling away from home. It also gives practice in a range of work and
study situations. It is designed to help you with listening and speaking tasks
you will need to do when communicating in English, at home or abroad. The
exercises in each unit help you to develop useful skills, such as listening for
opinions, listening for details and listening or the main idea. There are also lots
of practical speaking strategies and tasks that help the students improve your
ability to communicate, and pronunciation activities too.
The book has 16 units and is divided into two main sections:
• Units 1–8 – social or travel situations
• Units 9–16 – work or study situations
11. Course objective:
The course of communicative aims at developing the students' skills (speaking,
reading, and writing). This happens through introducing some reading
passages full of some advanced terms.
It also aims at providing students with some grammatical rules that, in
turn, enable them to speak grammatically well.
The main of objective of the course:
1. To help students develop listening and speaking skills in accordance
with the ALTE (Association of Language Testers in Europe) can-do
statements. These statements describe what language users can typically
do at different levels and in different contexts. Visit www.alte.org for
further information.
2. To encourage autonomous learning by focusing on learner
Training.
12. Student’s obligation
Students are required to attend all the classes during the semester with the
following obligations:
1. Students are required to participate in all class activities during the
semester.
2. They should get engaged in both listening and speaking activities
assigned by the lecturer. besides
3. The students should participate in mid and final exams.
13. Forms of teaching

Lectures take different forms of teaching including basic classroom

interactions and also using modern technologies such as: data show, lab , and
smart board.

14. Assessment scheme Course Assessment

Listening Speaking Quizzes Presence & D.a. Final Exam
15 % 15% 5% 5% 40 %‌
15. Student learning outcome:

The expected outcome of this course is to develop the students' skills

(speaking, reading, and listening). This happens through introducing some
reading passages full of some advanced terms.
It also is also expected that this course provides students with some
grammatical, pronunciation, and syntactical rules that, in turn, enable them to
speak grammatically well.
The main of objective of the course:
1. Students’ outcomes are shown in the development of listening and
speaking skills in accordance with the ALTE (Association of Language
Testers in Europe) can-do statements. These statements describe what
language users can typically do at different levels and in different
 contexts. Visit www.alte.org for further information.
2. Students are encouraged through autonomous learning by focusing on
learner training.
16. Course Reading List and References‌:

▪ 1.Miles Craven. Cambridge English Skills Real Listening and Speaking,

Cambridge University press, 2009.
▪ 2.Miles Craven. Cambridge English Skills Real Listening and Speaking,
Cambridge University press, 2014.
▪3. www.cambridge.org/englishskills

17. The Topics: Lecturer's name

Week No. Topic Notes

1 General Introduction

2 How’s it going 1 hr.

3 I’m looking for a camera 1 hr.

4 I need to see a doctor 1 hr.

5 What’s the problem? 1 hr.

6 What a lot of red tape 1 hr.

7 What a great view 1 hr.

8 Review 1 hr.

9 I’d appreciate it 1 hr.

10 This is your office 1 hr.

11 I’ll sort it out 1 hr.

12 Can I call you back? 1 hr.

13 Shall we move on? 1 hr.

14 I’d like to begin by … 1 hr.

 15 Let’s take a closer look 1 hr.

16 Can you expand on that? 1 hr.

17 It’ll help me get a good job 1 hr.

18 I work well under pressure 1 hr.

18. Practical Topics (If there is any)

Real Listening and Speaking 3 contains practical tasks to

help the students in everyday listening and speaking
situations, e.g. at the shops, in a restaurant or travelling
away from home. It also gives practice in a range of work
and study situations. It is designed to help you with
listening and speaking tasks the student will need to do
when communicating in English, at home or abroad. The
exercises in each unit help you to develop useful skills,
such as listening for opinions, listening for details and
listening for the main idea. There are also lots of practical
speaking strategies and tasks that help you improve your
ability to communicate, and pronunciation activities too.

20. Extra notes:

NA
21. Peer review
I confirm that this course book was reviewed by me, Dr. Mukhalad Malik
Yousif and I approve its effectiveness in the teaching of the 2nd year
Communicative.