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Advanced Grammar provides higher-level students opportunities to practise advanced grammar in context. Students will be aware of and thus be able to spot and correct their own grammatical errors.  At the end of the course, students gain more confidence in the use of a much wider range of grammar structures in their use of English.

This is an Associate of Arts in Languages and Humanities full-time programme.

This programme provides a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of communication together with a strong discipline based training in humanities, social sciences and language studies. Core units in the degree combine theoretical knowledge with the development of practical communication skills, which include the use of the latest digital multimedia technology.

This programme provides a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of communication together with a strong discipline based training in humanities, social sciences and language studies. Core units in the degree combine theoretical knowledge with the development of practical communication skills, which include the use of the latest digital multimedia technologies.

As a subject in philosophy, a trope in literature, and a most common theme in cinema, love is a master signifier in language for all its unsatisfactory definitions. Looking at various cinematic productions, this course explores the idea of love as a sign of being as well as non-being, as both confirmation and destabilisation of identity at once; hence, as an attraction and a danger.

In this course, we will focus on a few narrative genres in the Old Testament:
biography, cycle stories, tragedy, and comedy.
 
The texts we will look at include the following:
 
Session 1
 
Biography: The life of Jacob (Genesis 25:19 – 35:29)
Cycle story: Gideon’s story (Judges 6:1- 8:32)
Comedy: David and Abigail (I Samuel 24, 25)
        The Book of Esther
 
Session 2
 
Biography: The story of Aaron (Several chapters from Exodus and Numbers)
Cycle story: Samson’s story (Judges 13 – 16)
Tragedy: Samuel, Saul, and David (I Samuel 8:1 – 31:13)

This course is specifically designed for teachers and learners of English as a second language to improve their skills in generating written texts effectively and efficiently for academic, business and research purposes. It will use product-focused, process-oriented and genre-based approaches to help participants create writings that conform to academic and workplace conventions, rhetorical structures and genre features. The writing instructor will help students conduct rhetorical analysis of model texts in educational, vocational and research literature and scaffold them to write collaboratively and independently.  Constructive feedback will be provided to individual writing products on content, structure and language.

This daytime English course helps senior secondary school students sharpen their edge by providing a safe and nourishing English-speaking environment for heightening their English language skills in reading, writing, speaking, listening and presenting. Lessons are aimed at developing students’ language potential to the full and expanding their knowledge of test-taking skills and strategies for various internal and external examination assessments.

English Non-stop is a new course for students who want to improve their present level of English through continuous study rather than by taking a fixed-length course. The course runs all year round with short breaks and enrolment is available at any time. Applicants can choose to sign up for 10, 20, 30 or 40 weeks’ study.

The 60-hour course (30 lessons x 2) is designed for beginners or ‘false’ beginners who seek English refresher and enhance their abilities. The course aims to help students revise and address common grammar and pronunciation problems, widen vocabulary and practise oral communication. Students are expected to increase in confidence when using English on course completion.