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Module 0. COURSE INTRODUCTION

Lesson 1. (4 Sept 25) Civil Service Exams: The Basics.

Module 1. WRITTEN EXPRESSION

Lesson 1. (11 Sept 25) Register. Special stylistic issues of semi-formal, formal & academic writing. Punctuation marks. Discourse markers. Syntax essentials.

Lesson 2. (18 Sept 25) Inversion & fronting. Cleft sentences.

Lesson 3. (25 Sept 25) Subordinate clauses.

Lesson 4. (2 Oct 25) Concession clauses. Use of “Albeit” and “Notwithstanding”.

Lesson 5. (9 Oct 25) How to write a summary. Summary rubric. Mock exam.

Lesson 6. (16 Oct 25) Assignment: Written expression activity. Mock exam: feedback.

MODULE 2. MORPHOLOGY & SEMANTICS

Lesson 1. (23 Oct 25) Morphological analysis.

Lesson 2. (30 Oct 25) Word-formation processes I: affixation, conversion & compounding. Word-formation processes I: affixation, conversion & compounding.

Lesson 3. (6 Nov 25) Word-formation processes II: back-formations, reduplicatives & abbreviations. Hypocoristics.

Lesson 4. (13 Nov 25) Assignment: Written expression activity. Mock exam.

Lesson 5. (20 Nov 25) Mock exam: feedback. Semantics I: polysemy vs. homonymy. Paronyms & capitonyms.

Lesson 6. (27 Nov 25) Semantics II: synonymy & antonymy. Meronymy & holonymy vs. Hyperonymy & hyponymy.

MODULE 3. PHONETICS & PHONOLOGY.

Lesson 1. (4 Dec 25) IPA. Classification of phonemes. Transcription hints.

Lesson 2. (11 Dec 25) Assignment: Written expression activity. Stress in compounds.

Lesson 3. (18 Dec 25) Homophones. Minimal pairs.

Lesson 4. (Christmas) Guided transcription practice.

Lesson 5. (Christmas) Mock exam.

Lesson 6. (Christmas) Mock exam: feedback.

MODULE 4. TEXT ANALYSIS I. JOURNALISTIC TEXTS.

Lesson 1. (8 Jan 26) Text types & Language functions.

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