- Code
- ELL 111
- Name
- Academic Language Skills I
- Semester
- 1
- Lecture hours
- 5.00
- Seminar hours
- 0.00
- Laborator hours
- 0.00
- Credits
- 5.00
- ECTS
- 7.00
- Description
-
This comprehensive course offers students systematic practise of four skills at advanced level. It encourages enhancement of students’ reading skills through a wide range of contemporary diverse texts, articles, speeches, etc. Through language focus sections students will be able to acquire complex grammar structures, while vocabulary spots will help them increase their word store. Students are expected to become competent and fluent in spoken and written English.
- Objectives
-
To help students improve their comprehension of diverse topics and areas in reading and listening. To enable students to be highly competent and fluent in discussing on a wide range of topics using correct structures and the relative vocabulary in both speaking and writing. To help students acquire academic skills in English
- Java
- Tema
- 1
- Unit 1. Living together, Present tense, time adverbs, comparatives and superlatives, an opinion essay
- 2
- An informal email, Globalization, Workbook
- 3
- Unit 2 Survival, Natural phenomena, Past tense, used/would, be/get used to
- 4
- Narrate an event, Workbook, Extra materials
- 5
- Unit 3. Work, jobs of the future, work and education, job qualities, Workbook
- 6
- Unit 4. Entertainment. Theater and performances Passive voice, the causative so/neither
- 7
- A book review Workbook
- 8
- Midterm Exam
- 9
- Unit 5. Can you help? Global issues Reported speech, Workbook
- 10
- Unit 6. Don’t be afraid, Modals, Idioms related to fear, Body language
- 11
- Informal email of advice, a paragraph giving advice, Workbook
- 12
- Unit 7. Health and Food, Phrasal verbs, Conditionals, wishes, question tags
- 13
- Ways to live, a for-and-against essay, Workbook
- 14
- Unit 8 Amazing Journeys, relative clauses, Phrasal verb: check
- 15
- Review
- 16
- Final Exam
- 1
- Students will be able: To understand and comment upon complex and demanding texts about various topics
- 2
- To use the language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes
- 3
- To produce well-organised texts on a wide range of subjects and areas through use of necessary structures and devices
- Quantity Percentage Total percent
- Midterms
- 1 30% 30%
- Quizzes
- 0 0% 0%
- Projects
- 1 10% 10%
- Term projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 1 10% 10%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 50%
- Final exam percent
- 50%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 5 80
- Off class study hours
- 14 5 70
- Duties
- 1 0 0
- Midterms
- 1 10 10
- Final exam
- 1 15 15
- Other
- 0 0 0
- Total workLoad
- 175
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 7.00
- ECTS
- 7.00