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English as a foreign language

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Course ID: 09-ANG-FIM-66
Erasmus code / ISCED: 09.0 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. / (unknown)
Course title: English as a foreign language
Name in Polish: Język angielski
Organizational unit: Institute of Ethnolinguistics
Course groups: (in Polish) Moodle - przedmioty Szkoły Nauk o Języku i Literaturze
(in Polish) Przedmioty dla programu S1-FIaw
(in Polish) Przedmioty dla programu S1-FIbl
(in Polish) Przedmioty dla programu X-S1x-BLOTEWX
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 5.00 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.

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Language: English
Module type:

compulsory

Major:

Indonesian Malay

Cycle of studies:

1st cycle

Module learning aims:

The objective of the course is the study of English as a foreign language at an advanced level. At the end of the course students reach a fluency level of at least C1.

Year of studies (where relevant):

Year 3

Short description:

English as a Foreign Language at an iadvanced level. Considerable emphasis is put on the balanced development of all language skills.

Full description:

Vocabulary Study:

- learning and achieving success

- attitudes, characteristics, emotional reactions,

- leisure time

- the global village

- forms of activism

- world problems

- security measures

- communication

- home and family

- seeing the world

- money and business

- technology

- the mind

Grammar Study:

- present and past tenses

- the passive

- relative clauses

- articles

- future forms and expressions with future meaning

- modals and semi-modals

- word families

- noun clauses

- modifying gradable and ungradable adjectives

- conditionals

- spelling rules

- gerunds and infinitives

- emphasis

- past tenses for hypothetical meanings

- comparatives and superlatives

- reported speech

Writing:

- essays

- reports

Using the grammar and vocabulary studied to produce academic presentations

Bibliography:

Coursebook:

J. Bell, R. Gower „Advanced Expert”, Pearson

Dodatkowa:

J. Barnes, D. Hyde, N. Kenny, J. Newbrook „Advanced Expert CAE”, Longman

J. Bell, N. Kenny „Advanced Expert Student’s Resource Book”, Pearson

M. Vince „Advanced Language Practice”, Macmillan

Learning outcomes:

Students can understand long and complex factual and literary

texts, even when meanings are only implied. They can understand extended factual and literary speech even when content is not signaled explicitly.

Students can communicate flexibly and effectively for social and professional purposes, also with natives. They can select style appropriate for a given context with precision and attention to accuracy.

Students can write clear and cohesive texts, on a broad range of topics, with attention to accuracy. They can use written forms with style appropriate for a given context, skilfully and correctly using linking words. Students have extensive cultural knowledge of English-speaking countries.

Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

In order to complete the course, students need to pass all tests, deliver oral presentations and write essays. It is possible to have two absences per term. Final grade depends on the final exam result.

Classes in period "Academic year 2020/2021, summer semester" (past)

Time span: 2021-03-01 - 2021-09-30
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Type of class:
discussion seminar, 60 hours more information
Coordinators: Magdalena Kębłowska
Group instructors: Daniel Dzienisiewicz
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Examination: Course - Exam
discussion seminar - Exam

Classes in period "Academic year 2021/2022, summer semester" (past)

Time span: 2022-02-24 - 2022-09-30
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Type of class:
discussion seminar, 60 hours more information
Coordinators: Magdalena Kębłowska
Group instructors: Magdalena Kębłowska
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Examination: Course - Exam
discussion seminar - Exam

Classes in period "Academic year 2022/2023, summer semester" (past)

Time span: 2023-02-27 - 2023-09-30
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Type of class:
discussion seminar, 60 hours more information
Coordinators: Magdalena Kębłowska
Group instructors: Magdalena Kębłowska
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Examination: Course - Exam
discussion seminar - Exam
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