English as a foreign language 09-ANG-FIM-66
Vocabulary Study:
- learning and achieving success
- attitudes, characteristics, emotional reactions,
- leisure time
- the global village
- forms of activism
- world problems
- security measures
- communication
- home and family
- seeing the world
- money and business
- technology
- the mind
Grammar Study:
- present and past tenses
- the passive
- relative clauses
- articles
- future forms and expressions with future meaning
- modals and semi-modals
- word families
- noun clauses
- modifying gradable and ungradable adjectives
- conditionals
- spelling rules
- gerunds and infinitives
- emphasis
- past tenses for hypothetical meanings
- comparatives and superlatives
- reported speech
Writing:
- essays
- reports
Using the grammar and vocabulary studied to produce academic presentations
Module learning aims
Major
Cycle of studies
Module type
Year of studies (where relevant)
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Students can understand long and complex factual and literary
texts, even when meanings are only implied. They can understand extended factual and literary speech even when content is not signaled explicitly.
Students can communicate flexibly and effectively for social and professional purposes, also with natives. They can select style appropriate for a given context with precision and attention to accuracy.
Students can write clear and cohesive texts, on a broad range of topics, with attention to accuracy. They can use written forms with style appropriate for a given context, skilfully and correctly using linking words. Students have extensive cultural knowledge of English-speaking countries.
Assessment criteria
In order to complete the course, students need to pass all tests, deliver oral presentations and write essays. It is possible to have two absences per term. Final grade depends on the final exam result.
Bibliography
Coursebook:
J. Bell, R. Gower „Advanced Expert”, Pearson
Dodatkowa:
J. Barnes, D. Hyde, N. Kenny, J. Newbrook „Advanced Expert CAE”, Longman
J. Bell, N. Kenny „Advanced Expert Student’s Resource Book”, Pearson
M. Vince „Advanced Language Practice”, Macmillan
Additional information
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