Current Events: Reading and Listening Skills 3

studia pierwszego stopnia

English in Public Communication

semestr 3

Studia stacjonarne

profil akademicki

języki obce
obowiązkowe

Realizowany w sali

the course in Current Events: Reading and Listening Skills 2 successfully completed

ECTS points in relation to student’s duties:

total number of ECTS: 2

1 ECTS: 30h particiaption in classes

1 ECTS: 30h preparing for classes (extensive reading and listening) with direct participation of the teacher

Course description:

This course is continuation of Current events: reading and listening skills 2 and has been designed to develop students’ receptive skills such as listening and reading corresponding to C1 English proficiency level according to the criteria suggested by CEFR for language. While interacting with particular content students will acquire the skills and strategies necessary to accomplish two primary purposes: getting the general sense of the message (written or said) and working out the details of a piece of reading or writing.

Course objectives

The aim of the course is to improve students’ language fluency (according to the criteria suggested by CEFR for languages) in terms of raising their level of understanding of reading and listening texts at B2+/C1 level.

The course focuses on:

1. training to understand different reading and listening texts at B2+/C1 level,

2. training reading for general information, specific information, reading for the understanding context of a message,

3. training listening for general information, detailed information, and basic understanding of different types of English pronunciation.

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Course content

Listening comprehension: training in listening to understand the meaning of a range of spoken material at C1 level, including lectures, radio broadcasts, speeches and talks, monologues, conversations held by two or three people. Training in a range of listening techniques, for example: listening for general information, listening for specific information, matching, gap-filling, paraphrasing, note-taking.

Reading comprehension: training in understanding different forms of written texts at C1 level such as: de-scriptions, analyses, reports, and critical opinions. Training in a range of reading techniques, for example: matching, discriminating, selecting, grasping general or detailed information.

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Methods of instruction/ forms of classroom activity:

listening comprehension tasks, reading comprehension tasks, group work, online assignments, ICT tools/elearning option if needed

Reading list

A.1. used in class

Betsis, A. and Mamas, L. (20214). Succeed in Cambridge English: Advanced. Global ELT.

Osbourne, C. Nuttal, C. (2015). Exam Essentials Practice Tests 1. Cengage.

Online materials prepared by a teacher.

Learning outcomes acc to PQR 2019

Knowledge

Students know and understand

1. various types of registers in listened and written English texts at the B2+/C1 level, typical for public communication (k_W03/P6S_WG).

2. how to analyse and interpret at an advanced level reading and listening types of texts at B2+/C1 level (k_W04/P6S_WG).

Skills

Students can:

3. understand listened and written texts related to public communication at B2+ level, and rec-ognise C1 level of reading and listening texts (k_U02/P6S_UW).

4. analyse written and listened information from various sources at B2+/C1 level using tech-niques of matching, gap-filling, guessing from context, skimming, scanning, paraphrasing, dis-criminating, and grasping general and detailed information (k_U05/ P6S_UK; k_U07/P6S_UO).

Social competences

Students are ready to:

5. recognise and accept linguistic and cultural differences in written and listened texts in public communication at B2+/C1 level (k_K03/P6S_KO).

Forms of evaluation of learning outcomes

1. Active in-class performance - 20% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4,5,)

2. Mid-term test - 40% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4)

3. Final test - 40% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4)

To get a credit students need to pass all tests at Level B2+/C1

55-63% - 3,0

64-72% – 3,5

73-81% – 4,0

82-90% – 4,5

91-100% – 5,0