Advanced English Skills 2

General data

Course ID:	3301-L1PAAES-2
Erasmus code / ISCED:	09.101 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0232) Literature and linguistics The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Advanced English Skills 2
Name in Polish:	Język angielski na poziomie zaawansowanym 2
Organizational unit:	Institute of English Studies
Course groups:	(in Polish) Obowiązkowe zajęcia z praktycznego angielskiego dla studiów pierwszego stopnia
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Type of course:	obligatory courses
Short description:	Second part of the two-semester course aiming to review, practise and develop the four language skills at the B2/C1 level in an integrated way. The basic textbook,CAE Result, will be suplemented by other reading and listening material. Each class will centre around a specific theme and provide the student with material for practising the basic skills, with focus on speaking and writing, as well as expanding and activating vocabulary. Assessment will involve in-class work, homework assignments and a final test at the end of the semester.
Full description:	Second part of the two semester course which reviews the four language skills - listening, speaking, reading and writing - and includes a vocabulary component at the B2/C1 level. The basic textbook is CAE Result, though selected literary readings and listening material may also be included. The course covers the following topics: personality, customs and traditions, the future, nature, health, fantasy, traces of the past, big issues, crime, consumption, entertainment, a changing world. The listening component of the course includes a variety of listening activities such as listening for gist and detail, blank filling, multiple matching, multiple choice, etc. Material for extensive listening - a variety of recorded radio programmes - is available for work outside the classroom. Speaking practise in class is based on the listening and reading texts and its aim is to train students to communicate more effectively by increasing accuracy and range of expression. A variety of conversational techniques and language functions will be introduced and practised. Informal and formal language is practiced in dialogues, interviews, short presentations and discussions. The texts for reading are thematically related to the main topic of each unit and are taken from authentic contemporary sources. They provide the students with both intensive and extensive reading material for reading comprehension, vocabulary practise and text analysis, as well as points for discussion. The writing component revises sentence structures and paragraph organization and development. Stress is placed on appropriate choice of vocabulary. The writing of formal and informal letters, reviews, articles, reports and book entries is practised. Principles of essay organization are outlined as an introduction to writing for academic purposes. The vocabulary introduced during the course relates to the themes around which the units are based. The aim of the exercises is to practise and activate a thematic vocabulary and lexical patterns - collocations, idioms, phrasal verbs, etc. A review at the end of each unit allows students to monitor their own progress. Evaluation on the part of the teacher is based on assessment of student participation in class, assessment of written work done during the course both in and outside the class and a final test based on material covered during the semester.
Bibliography:	Kathy Gude and Mary Stephens. 2008. CAE Result. Oxford University Press.
Learning outcomes:	K_U03 is able to express himself/herself in English correctly, with precision and coherence, adjusting language forms to the communicational context. K_U04 is able to present the aquired knowledge in a clear and logical way in the oral and written form. K_U05 is able to monitor and diagnose the correctness of the Polish and English languages in use.

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