COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES – ENGLISH DEPARTMENT:

BASIC COMMUNICATION SKILLS

This course is meant to help the freshmen college students who will inevitably face many
requirements that require the four macro skills in English language: reading, listening, speaking and
writing. Listening and speaking are brain input skills but reading and writing are brain output skills.

In our everyday lives, as we apply the different macro skills, grammar is everywhere. We use it at
home, in school, at work and in the streets. It is the core of a language regardless of one’s culture,
mastery and understanding of it. Being able to use grammar also widen one’s vocabulary. It opens
doors of opportunities for us to be able to communicate freely, with no barriers and hesitations.

This deals primarily with the study of the basic

communication skills and the rudiment of English
language. Specifically, it focuses on the different parts of
speech, usages and mechanics. Moreover, the course
focuses on beginning students who desire to improve
their use of grammar of the English Language in
communication. Furthermore, it provided the basic
knowledge about the English language and its use.
Finally, it includes drills and exercises that provide the
adequate training to improve students’ knowledge and
the ability to use English as a medium of communication.
At the end of the course and given relevant actual or simulated situations/conditions, the students
will be able to:
1. Use the English language for a variety of purposes, audience, and contexts through the
use of a range text;
2. Comprehend a wide range of contexts and texts and analyze texts in relation to
personal experiences and the experiences of different societies;
3. Communicate effectively, appropriately, and responsibly in a variety of social and
functional contexts through the production of a range of texts;
4. Understand, develop and communicate ideas and information to interact with others in
the society using English language.
5. Demonstrate a deeper understanding and appreciation of Filipino cultures.
6. Maintain a high degree of self-esteem through the continued use of skills, attitudes, and
enjoyment of the English language.

COURSE
WEEK COURSE UNIT (CU)
MODULE (CM)
1 CM1-CU1: Course Orientation & Diagnostic Examination
CM1-CU2: Basic Sentence Pattern
2
TCS: Types of Listening
CM1: Target CM1-CU3: Subject-Verb Agreement
3
Communication TCS: Taking Notes
Skills (TCS): CM1-CU4: Moods of Verb
4
Speaking TCS: Implication and Inference
CM1-CU5: Verb Usage
5
TCS: Taking Notes on a Conversation
6 PRELIM EXAMINATION
CM2-CU6: Correct Usage of Conjunctions
7
TCS: Reading Comprehension
CM2-CU7: Pronoun Antecedents and Agreements
CM2: Target 8
TCS: Analyzing Coherence and Cohesive Devices
Communication CM2-CU8: Adjectives and Adverb Usage
9
Skills (TCS): TCS: Context Clues and Reading for Organization Language
Reading and CM2-CU9: Prepositions
10
Speaking TCS: Informal and Formal Speaking
CM2-CU10: Kinds of Content and Function Words
11
TCS: Stressing Content and Function Words
12 MIDTERM EXAMINATION
13 CM3-CU11: Pronoun Usage
 TCS: Paraphrasing and Expressing an Opinion; Defining, Describing, and
Summarizing
CM3-CU12: Voice of Verb
14
TCS: Giving Announcement and Notices
CM3: Target
CM3-CU13: Sentence Errors: Sentence Fragment, Run-on Sentences, Redundancies
Communication 15
TCS: Descriptive Essay
Skills (TCS): CM3-CU14: Sentence Errors: Misplaced Modifiers and Dangling Modifiers
Writing Skills 16
TCS: Persuasive Essay
CM3-CU15: Parallelism
17
TCS: Narrative Essay
18 FINAL EXAMINATION

Access to Canvas Learning Management System

Participation to the Discussion Board
Class attendance
Class participation
Submission/compliance to Weekly Assessment Tasks
Examinations

Celce-Murcia, Marianne & Larsen-Freeman, Dianne. (1999). The Grammar Book: An ESL/EFL
Teacher's Course (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Heinle & Heinle.

Huddleston, Rodney & Pullum, Geoffrey K.. (2002). The Cambridge Grammar of the English
Language. New York & Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Quirk, Randolph & Greenbaum, Sidney. (1985). A University Grammar of English. London:
Longman.