English Language Course, Advanced Level I

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Based on the communicative approach, it integrates the learning of new language skills and places equal emphasis on vocabulary and grammar. The course uses a guided discovery approach to learning, first allowing students to check what they know, then guiding them to work out the rules through carefully structured examples and concept questions. Continuous evaluation. Full details of evaluation will be given at the beginning of the course.

Learning Outcomes

The course is designed to help students work towards the CEFR level C1 skills, which include:

• understanding extended speech even when it is not clearly structured and relationships are not signalled explicitly;
• understanding long and complex factual and literary texts, appreciating distinctions of style and understanding specialised articles and technical instructions, even when they are not related to a familiar field;
• expressing oneself fluently and spontaneously, using language flexibly and effectively for social and professional purposes, formulating ideas and opinions with precision;
• orally presenting clear, detailed descriptions of complex subjects, integrating sub-themes, developing particular points and rounding off with an appropriate conclusion;
• when writing, producing clear, well-structured texts, developing points of view at some length, writing about complex subjects in a letter, an essay or a report using an appropriate style.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Topics covered include: first impressions, people and places, lifestyles, work, the media, social issues, advertising, achievements, happiness, world issues and technology.

Grammatical areas reviewed and extended include: present and past tenses, participle and relative clauses, conditionals and modal verbs and inversion.

Vocabulary areas reviewed and extended include: idiomatic phrases, connotation, phrasal verbs, phrasal nouns, collocations, prefixes and suffixes, and colloquial expressions.

The course develops and gives opportunities to practise all four language skills: speaking, writing, reading and listening.

Head Lecturer(s)

Jon Patrick Nesbit

Assessment Methods

Assessement
specific exam preparation. Continuous evaluation with at least two written tests per semester together with other appropriate forms of evaluation. Full details of evaluation will be given at the beginning of the course. : 100.0%

Bibliography

Face2face Advanced,2nd Edition(Cambridge University Press)
The course book(Face2face,2nd Edition, Advanced)is a vital part of the course and must be brought to every lesson. It contains a self-study DVD-ROM for extra practice,which together with the workbook (also compulsory)ensures the student obtains maximum benefit from his/her studies.