- Code
- EFL 103
- Name
- Advanced English I
- Semester
- 1
- Lecture hours
- 5.00
- Seminar hours
- 0.00
- Laborator hours
- 0.00
- Credits
- 5.00
- ECTS
- 5.00
- Description
-
Students will be able to independently perform communicative acts in English that demonstrate a highly developed sense of language awareness and a mastery of argumentation and effective social discourse.
- Objectives
-
The course aims to: - To develop verbal and reading skills of students - Improve the use of vocabulary learning strategies in reading - To learn how to write letters, reports and stories - To develop knowledge of lexical items including verbs and their rankings - To develop social interaction skills of students through learning how to start a conversation and give opinions
- Java
- Tema
- 1
- Student Syllabi overview. General introductions. Language Learner Histories. Self-assessment of English language abilities. Review of grammar: basic sentence types in English.
- 2
- Preparation for academic study: Reading dictionaries and understanding short informative texts. Pre-writing and drafting strategies. Paraphrasing in titles. Continue review of basic sentence types.
- 3
- Note-taking and listening to a lecture for the main idea. Participating in a seminar discussion. Recognizing noun phrases. Using a monolingual dictionary. The grammar of be, have, and do.
- 4
- Understanding and extracting key information in textbooks. Writing a short description of visual information. The grammar of the present and future tenses.
- 5
- Note-taking abbreviations and symbols. Speaking in a seminar context. Recognizing key factual information in a lecture. Becoming familiar with academic vocabulary. Continue review of present and future tenses.
- 6
- Using adverbs to express stance in textbooks. Analyzing and writing topic sentences and adding supporting evidence. The grammar of the past and perfect tenses.
- 7
- Participating in a tutorial discussion. Recognizing the language for introducing main ideas and supporting evidence in lectures. Inferring meaning of unknown words in sentences. Review grammar of the past and the perfect.
- 8
- Mid-Term Exam
- 9
- Writing essay introductions. Identifying the purpose and structure of a text. Paraphrasing: noun and verb transformations. The grammar of modal verbs.
- 10
- Note-taking using diagrams. Recognizing and practising signposting language in lectures. Vocabulary of classification and categorization. Continued study of modal verbs
- 11
- Analyzing and writing essay conclusions. Identifying cohesive language and hedging language in textbooks. The grammar of passives.
- 12
- Taking linear notes. Interpreting and discussing written feedback in a tutorial. Identifying spoken punctuation in lectures. Continue review of passives.
- 13
- Analyzing written descriptions of processes and writing a paragraph describing a process. Reading popular academic texts. The grammar of infinitives and -ing forms.
- 14
- Using notes on lectures to give detailed explanations. Giving a short poster presentation. Building word families through suffixes. Continue review of infinitives and -ing forms.
- 15
- Review; Reflection; Self-assessment of progress.
- 16
- Final Exam
- 1
- Students will be able to understand extended speech and lectures and follow complex lines of argument in English.
- 2
- Students will be able to read English language articles and texts concerned with contemporary topics in which the writer adopts a particular viewpoint or attitude.
- 3
- Students will be able to take an active part in academic discussions in English, presenting clear, detailed descriptions and defending a particular viewpoint by describing the various advantages and disadvantages.
- 4
- Students will be able to take notes and write essays and summaries in English.
- Quantity Percentage Total percent
- Midterms
- 1 20% 20%
- Quizzes
- 0 0% 0%
- Projects
- 1 40% 40%
- Term projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 1 15% 15%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 75%
- Final exam percent
- 25%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 5 80
- Off class study hours
- 14 2 28
- Duties
- 1 0 0
- Midterms
- 1 8 8
- Final exam
- 1 15 15
- Other
- 0 0 0
- Total workLoad
- 131
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 5.24
- ECTS
- 5.00