ENGLISH FOR JOURNALISTS
This course is designed to attend to the need of
the modern Journalist, who wishes to up-date his or her English
in an ever-demanding globalised world. Students must at least
have an intermediate English to be eligible for this course. However,
students without such prerequisite could be given
preparatory classes in English.
DURATION :12months (one year)
COURSE CONTENT: The course is divided into
three areas of study:
COMPREHENSION SKILLS, GRAMMAR CLASS and VIDEO CLASS. Classes
are held three times in a week with a duration of 1'15" each.
A triple class of 3'45" is quite possible if solicitated.
The Main Course
In this class, students will
shadow-read to a wide range of interesting articles in the
areas of news, editorials and opinions, money, sports, education,
lifestyles and science. Students will be tasked on their listening,
reading and language analysis capabilities. Critical thinking
in English is thus,
encouraged.
Afterwards, students will write, read and discuss similar
articles in their native countries. Readings of Literature
in English are encouraged. The class teacher will be expected
to field questions on such readings and writings.
Suggested readings are:
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FICTIONS
'The heart of darkness' Joseph Conrad
'Mrs Dalloway' Virginia Woolf
'Silas Marner' George Eliot
'I know why the caged bird sings' Maya Angelou
'Sons and Lovers' D.H. Lawrence
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DRAMA
'The death of a salesman' Auther Miller
'Waiting for Godot' Samuel Beckett
'Misanthrope' Molière
'The cherry orchard' Anton Chekov
'Tales from Shakespeare' Charles and Mary Lamb
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POETRY
'Selected poetry' William Blake
'Spirits of the dead' Edgar Allan Poe
'Micheal' William Wordsworth
'Song of myself' Walt Whitman
'Mending the wall' Robert Frost
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GRAMMAR CLASS
This will be a quick and thorough revision of the
English grammar. Special importance is given to tenses, phrasal
verbs, idiomatic expressions, English proverbs and their subsequent
flexibilities, English and American humor, jokes, puns and their
various importance. Differences are clearly defined between spoken
and written English and whatever uses they may serve.
Figures of speech such as simile, metaphor, alliteration, hypherbole, oxymoron,
irony, personification etc are also studied, enabling students to make,
and understand the usages of such fine elements of the English language,
in both written and spoken situations.
VIDEO CLASS
The video class is good enough to provide up-to-date
reports of all facets of life in the USA and other Anglophone
countries. The serial episodes will arm students to learn and
discuss on first-hand level what daily life might mean in such
countries.