Objectives of Teaching English as a Foreign
Language in the Secondary Stage
*General Aims:
La: To acquire and develop the four language skills integratively.
1.b: To help the students communicate in English within the limited scope of the
number of hours allocated to the course.
1.c: Consequently, learning the first foreign language may be considered as a basis
the students can build on at a later stage.
*Specific Aims:
2.a: To enable the students to understand the lexical items, syntactic structures,
phonological features and functional items they are exposed to within the limits of
what they have acquired.
2.b: To enable the students to express themselves orally in English through the use of
simple expressions and sentences, taking into account the correct pronunciation.
The Four Skills:
Teaching will aim at acquiring and developing all skills in an integrated way for most
of the time.
3.a: Listening:
-Distinguishing sounds and words.
- Understanding a limited range of vocabulary items.
- Understanding simple sentences, questions, instructions and
directions and responding to them.
- Understanding a wider range of vocabulary.
- Understanding different forms of questions.
- Identifying topics of situational dialogues.
3.b: Speaking:
-Producing words and sentences.
-Producing short utterances.
-Taking part in simple dialogues.
-Producing questions and answers.
-Re-telling a story.
-Making simple requests.
- Telling a story or dramatizing it as a play.
3.c: Reading:
-Identifying a range of vocabulary items.
-Responding appropriately to simple sentences and short paragraphs.
-Scanning and skimming texts for information.
-Answering questions on a text.
3.d: Writing:
-Completing and constructing simple sentences.
Writing a letter following instructions.
- Writing a paragraph by answering questions or any other kind of guidance.