- 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 Life style, habitual behaviour, use ofrequency adverbs, would, used to-would, be/get used to vs used to.
- 2
- Multiple matching, talking about photos, Writing informal letters. Review unit 1.
- 3
- Unit 2, indirect ways of asking questions, Writing letters: asking for information, Reading: multiple matching
- 4
- Language focus: gerunds and infinitives, Listening: multiple choice, Word formation: affixes, Vocabulary: sports. Quiz 1
- 5
- Machines and devices, Reading: multiple choice, comparative structures, suffixes, Listening: multiple matching
- 6
- Speaking: collaborative task, further discussion, articles, Listening: multiple choice, Writing: essays, reading: multiple choice
- 7
- Unit 4 A good story. Vocabulary: films, so and such, word formation: adjetives in –ed and –ing
- 8
- Midterm Exam
- 9
- Reading: gapped text, past tenses, writing: a short story, Unit 5 Multiple matching reading, prepositions
- 10
- Language focus: obligation, necessity, permission , Word formation: nouns and adjectives, the world of work
- 11
- Unit 6 Relative relationships, Reading: family feuds, grammar: too & enough, phrasal verbs about relations, listening: multiple matching, speaking: an interview, defining and non-defining relative clauses
- 12
- Vocabulary: have and expressions, describing people: appearance and character. Writing: descriptions, quiz 2
- 13
- Unit 7 value for money, vocabulary shopping, speaking: supermarket psychology, present perfect tense, contrasting ideas, the verb: to come
- 14
- Preferences, Talking about photos, review, Unit 8 travel, Gapped text reading, grammar the future
- 15
- Vocabulary travel, multiple choice listening, multiple choice reading: writing an essay, word formation: suffixes,
- 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 20% 20%
- Quizzes
- 2 10% 20%
- Projects
- 1 10% 10%
- Term projects
- 1 10% 10%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 0 10% 0%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 60%
- Final exam percent
- 40%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 5 80
- Off class study hours
- 14 4 56
- Duties
- 2 0 0
- Midterms
- 1 10 10
- Final exam
- 1 14 14
- Other
- 3 5 15
- Total workLoad
- 175
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 7.00
- ECTS
- 7.00