PRE-UNIVERSITY REMEDIAL PROGRAM
FOR THE 2014 E.C. ESSLCE EXAMINEES
ENGLISH MODULE
INTRODUCTION
This course is intended to enable students to integrate basic skills at macro and micro levels
with varied and interesting topics and higher level contents. The remedial education helps
students to provide knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in university. There are
different tasks students should be able to practice. The tasks are generally aimed at
encouraging students to learn by doing things in English and by reflecting on the activities
they do in each unit.
COURSE CONTENTS
Unit One: Hobbies and Crafts
1.1. Listening Skills – My favourite free -time activity – Listening for details
1.2. Grammar
1.3. Reading Comprehension
1.4. Speaking -What I like doing in my free time? -Classroom survey -Agreeing and Disagreeing
1.5. Writing -Descriptive writing -Keeping a diary
Unit Two: Moral Education and Personal Responsibility
2.1. Listening Skills – The Story of an Orphan – Listening for details
2.2. Grammar
2.3. Speaking
2.3.1. Using so and neither
2.3.2. Apologizing
2.4. Reading Comprehension -A Difficult situation
2.5. Writing -Warnings
Unit Three: Education
3.1. Listening Skills – The Education System in Ethiopia – Listening for details
3.2. Grammar
3.3. Speaking -The Education system: Present, past and future -Comparing Schools
3.4. Reading Comprehension -Barriers to Learning -Oweka Learns a lesson
3.5. Writing – Letter Writing
Unit Four: Water
4.1. Listening Skills – The Water Cycle – Listening for details -Extracting main ideas
4.2. Reading Comprehension – The Tale of a Tap
4.3. Speaking – All about Water – Water shortage: Describing cause and effect
-Expressing regrets (Wish)
4.4. Grammar
4.5. Writing – Saving Water in Ethiopia (Paragraph writing)
Unit Five: Family Life
5.1. Listening Skills – A Father’s Voice – Listening for details – Note Taking -Vocabulary in context
5.2. Grammar
5.3. Reading Comprehension – My Family – A Childhood Memory
5.4. Speaking – Expressing Opinion – Agreeing and Disagreeing – A Happy Family Life
5.5. Writing – Memories – A Formal Letter
Unit Six: United Nations
6.1. Listening Skills – A Lecture on the UN – Listening for details
6.2. Speaking – Pronunciation- contractions
6.3. Reading Comprehension – The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Vocabulary – acronyms – adjectives to describe leaders
6.4. Grammar
6.5. Writing – Writing a report
