English MQF 1

Entry Requirements

No specific entry requirements are needed for this level. For online lessons, learners need to have an understanding on how to use a computer. A level check will be held to determine the appropraite course level

Duration

30-week course with 3 contact hours per week.

Learning Outcomes

Expected learning outcomes for this course include:

Knowledge
• Understand a broad range of vocabulary and language structures related to everyday life, relationships, travel, media, health, science, and culture
• Recognise formal and informal register, audience, purpose, and writer intention in spoken and written texts
• Understand a variety of text types, including articles, emails, adverts, schedules, reviews, summaries, and argumentative texts
• Develop knowledge of grammar structures including tenses, modal verbs, conditionals, reported speech, link words, and complex sentence structures
• Understand how language features, layout, visuals, and vocabulary contribute to meaning in texts
Skills
• Listen to spoken texts at normal speed and identify main ideas, supporting details, opinions, and purpose
• Speak confidently in discussions, role-plays, presentations, and conversations, expressing opinions and supporting ideas with reasons and examples
• Interact appropriately by asking questions, giving instructions, clarifying meaning, comparing viewpoints, and presenting arguments
• Read and interpret a range of familiar and unfamiliar texts using skimming, scanning, inference, deduction, and summarising strategies
• Analyse language features, audience, purpose, tone, visuals, and writer techniques in texts
• Write coherent and cohesive texts using a range of vocabulary, structures, registers, and text types for different audiences and purposes
• Summarise, organise, and edit information accurately using appropriate grammar, punctuation, and style
Competence
• Communicate effectively and independently across familiar and less familiar contexts
• Apply listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills with increasing fluency, accuracy, and confidence
• Express, justify, and evaluate opinions using appropriate evidence and reasoning
• Adapt communication according to audience, purpose, register, and context
• Demonstrate critical thinking through inference, comparison, analysis, and interpretation of texts
• Use language autonomously to participate in academic, social, and practical communication situations

Delivery Method

Face to face lesson

Certification/Award

An award certificate accredited by the Malta Further and Higher Education Authority will be presented to learners who attend a minimum of 80% of the course and achieve an overall mark of 45% or higher in their tasks

Progression to further education

After successfully completing this course, learners can continue to study the subject at MQF Level 2

Language of Instruction

English