STRUCTURE D

ENGLISH EXTENSION COURSE

SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY
FX. RISANG BASKARA, S.S., M.Hum.
risangbaskara@gmail.com

Course Objectives:
The students are able to express basic communicative functions in English.

Target Competence:
Students can understand, analyze, combine, and produce various types English texts, both spoken and
written, with complex, inversion, and cleft sentences.

Progression of the course

No Date Topics Sub Topics Main Reference

1. August
Introduction Syllabus
28
2. Cleft sentences with S, O, and C as Quirk C, 951-
Sept 4 Cleft
focus 955; Quirk U,
3. Sept 11 Cleft sentences which are similar to 414-417; Close,
relative clauses 145
4. Sept 18 Pseudo-cleft Pseudo-cleft with wh- clause
5. Sept 25 PROGRESS TEST 1
6. Inverted sentences in questions and Quirk U, 310-
Oct 2
conditional clauses 311, 324-327
7. Inverted sentences in comparison, Close, 107-109;
Oct 16 Inversion in so+auxiliary+different subject, Phillips, 227-233
with adverbial of place,
8. Inverted sentences with negative
Oct 23
words
9. Oct 30 PROGRESS TEST 2
10. Nov 6 Descriptive Text The Jakarta Post,
Textual
11. Nov 13 Narrative Text Time Magazine,
Analysis
12. Nov 20 Argumentative Text Reader’s Digest,
13. Nov 27 Persuasive Text etc.
14. Dec 4 REVIEW

Evaluation

The students’ final grade are based on their scores in quizzes (20%), mid-term test 1 (25%), progress test 2
(25%), and final test (30%).

References

Close, R.A. A University Grammar of English Workbook. Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff-Longman, 1976.

Graver, B.D. Advanced English Practice. London: Oxford University Press, 1971.
Phillips, Deborah. Longman Complete Course for the TOEFL TEST. New York: Addison-Wesley Longman,
Inc., 2001.
Quirk, R., S. Greenbaum, G. Leech, and J.A. Svartvik. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English
Language. London: Longman Group Ltd., 1992.
The Jakarta Post, Time Magazine, Reader’s Digest, etc.