English As a Foreign Language

compulsory

Korean philology

1st cycle

This is a general English as a Foreign Language course at an upper intermediate level. Its main objective is to further develop students' practical skills such as speaking, reading, listening and writing so that they reach the B2+/C1 level at the end of the course.

Year 1

yes

Language level at B2.

MS Teams, student email

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

Topics to be discussed:

- Personality

- Work

- Learning a language; English as lingua franca

- History in pop culture

- Sounds and noises around us

- Literature

- Time management, multitasking

- Money

- Modern addictions

- Intelligence and knowledge

- Art

- Health and medicine

- Travel and tourism

Vocabulary:

- Collocations, fixed expressions and idioms related to personality, art, pop culture, work, warfare, time, money, technology, tourism and travelling

- Words for different features of character, weapons, sounds, money instruments, illnesses, literary genres, artists, works of art, modern gadgets

- Phrasal verbs with ‘get’ and ‘have’

- Word formation (abstract nouns, prefixes, compound adjectives)

Grammar:

- ‘have’ as an auxiliary verb and as a main verb

- Discourse markers/linkers

- Pronouns

- The past: habitual events and specific incidents

- The verb ‘get’

- Adverbs and adverbials

- Modal verbs: speculation, deduction, certainty

- Adding emphasis: inversion

- Distancing: the passive and other structures

- ‘Unreal use’ or the past tenses (after ‘wish’, ‘if only’, etc.)

- The choice of the infinitive or the gerund in verb+object patterns

- Conditional clauses

- Modal verbs: obligation, necessity, permission

- Verbs of the senses

- Ways of expressing he future

Writing:

- The structure of the paragraph: Building and developing topic sentences

- Constructing different types of paragraphs (expository, compare/contrast, process, etc.)

- Selected types of letters/emails (informal and formal)

Pronunciation:

- Word stress (shifting stress in word families, main and secondary stress in loner words)

- Weak forms (reduction of vowels in unstressed syllables)

- Vowels in stressed syllables

- Avoiding devoicing of final consonants

- Consonant clusters

- Basic intonation patterns, the rhythm of spoken English

- Main processes in connected speech (linking in short phrases)

- Sound-spelling relationships, homophones

- Understanding accents

COURSEBOOK:

Selected coursebook at least at the B2+ level.

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS:

McCarthy, M. and F. O'Dell. 2005. English Collocations in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Vince, M. 2003. Advanced Language Practice. Macmillan.

Vince, M. 2008. Macmillan English Grammar In Context Advanced. Macmillan.

Foley, M. and D. Hall. 2012. My GrammarLab Advanced. Pearson.

Evans, V. 1997. Successful Writing Upper-Intermediate., Successful Writing Advanced. Express Publishing.

Skipper, M. 2002. Advanced Grammar and Vocabulary. Express Publishing.

After the course the student:

Understands main ideas of standard written texts whose topics discuss those aspects of life that they are familiar with, e.g. school, work, free time

Understands short and longer spoken utterances which discuss the topics they are familiar with or interested in

Can express their opinions and justify them briefly

Can talk about various events and experiences

Can write a relatively short paragraph in which they express their views on topics that they are familiar with

Is able to speak with adequate intelligibility to enable communication with both native and non-native speakers of English

Moreover, students are familiar with the main cultural aspects of major English speaking countries

In order to get credit for the classes students have to:

- pass all the tests

- prepare various assignemnts on time (oral, written, projects)

- perform homework tasks

- attend classes regularly (Students are allowed to 2 unexcused absences per term)

The final grade for the course depends on the final examination result combined with the grade for class performance throughout the year (continuous assessment).