By the end of this unit, you will be able to:

listen to a  text and extract both specific information and  the gist (main) idea from it

ͬ     examine the pictures and explain the challenges our world is facing due to population explosion globally and locally

ͬ     work   out   the   contextual   meaning   of   the   selected   words   and   use   them   in   your communication where necessary

ͬ     pronounce short and long vowels: [a, e, ,i and o]  and diphthongs [, ai, ei, , ea, eə , ɪə ɔɪ, ʊə] as correctly as possible and make your oral communications intelligible practice asking opinions in small talks and conversations

ͬ     practise a variety of text attack skills such as skimming, scanning and intensive reading and extract information.

ͬ     discuss and integrate textual information in oral presentations

ͬ        work out the meaning of different words from different literatures contextually

ͬ        practise the   word formation processes with prefixes and use the correct form of the words in communications

ͬ        acquaint  yourself  with  different  phrasal  with  the  verb  “fall”  and  use  them  in  both spoken and written communications.

ͬ        use  simple  present  tense  and  degrees  of  comparisons  in  constructing  grammatically correct sentences

ͬ        complete ideas  in a piece of  writing and write your own paragraph

ͬ        add ideas to the incomplete paragraph and make it complete

ͬ        connect different sentences using different discourse markers

ͬ        acquaint yourself with the use of period, question mark and exclamation mark and use them in your writing where necessary