English As a Foreign Language 09-ANG-FL-16
Topics to discuss:
- flatmates (looking for a flat, sharing a flat, ideal flatmates)
- asking personal questions
- talking about your experiences
- making phone calls and polite requests
- social issues and problems
- surveillance society
- expressing opinions and supporting viewpoints
- ingredients of happiness (what makes you happy)
- playing games and sports
- computer games
- holidays (types, destinations, niche holidays)
- how does it work? (describing procedures)
- telling stories and anecdotes
- wishes and regrets
- books (reading habits, summarising a plot, your favourite book, e-books)
- expressing likes and dislikes
- inventions (the best and the worst inventions, the effects of inventions)
- talking about changes
- consumer society
- advertising (tactics, influence, art)
- brainstorming and suggesting ideas
- how to show reservations and express doubts
- age (ages of man, generations, the best period of your life)
- your future hopes and plans
- talking about yourself
- persuading and asking for clarification
Vocabulary:
- personality
- habits
- descriptions of people
- feelings (-ing/-ed adjectives)
- phrases used in advertisements
- social issues
- surveillance techniques and equipment
- opinion adjectives
- good and bad behaviour
- locations
- regrets (I kick myself for, on second thought, with hindsight, etc.)
- famous sayings
- likes and dislikes
- verbs/phrases to describe changes
- language of advertising
- adjectives to describe ideas
- age (maturity, be in your prime, etc.)
- optimism and pessimism
Grammar:
- tenses
- verbs (aspects, patterns, forms, phrasal verbs)
- indirect questions
- the passive
- used to / would
- be / get used to
- uncountable nouns and pluralia tantum
- I wish / if only
- articles
- conditional sentences (type ), 1, 2)
- modal verbs (obligation, prohibition, permission, ability)
Writing:
- paragraph
- letters of complaint
- opinion essays
Pronunciation:
- word stress
- compound stress
- vowels in unstressed syllables
- basic intonation patterns
Module learning aims
Major
Course module conducted remotely (e-learning)
Cycle of studies
Module type
Year of studies (where relevant)
Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
After the course the student:
Understands main ideas of standard written texts whose topics discuss those aspects of life that they are familiar with, e.g. school, work, free time
Understands relatively simple and coherent spoken utterances which discuss the topics they are familiar with or interested in
Can express their opinions and justify them briefly
Can talk about various events and experiences
Can write a short paragraph in which they express their views on topics that they are familiar with
Is able to pronounce English phonemes correctly and use correct word stress/intonation
Moreover, students are familiar with the main cultural aspects of major English speaking countries
Assessment criteria
In order to get credit for the classes students have to:
- pass all the tests
- prepare and present speeches
- submit written assignments (paragraphs and letters)
- submit homework
The final grade for the course depends on the final examination result.
Students are allowed to 2 unexcused absences per term
Bibliography
Main:
Selected coursebook at B1+/B2 level.
Additional:
Murphy, R. 2015. English Grammar in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Vince, M. 2009. First Certificate Language Practice [4th edition]. Oxford: Macmillan.
Additional information
Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system: