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| LANG0501-1 | English level 2
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| Duration : | 60h Th, 15h Pr |
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| Holder(s) : | Emma Desforges, Ellen Harry, ISLV, Isabelle Peere |
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| Language : | Langue française |
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| Course contents : | The course is based on an integrated course manual at intermediate level aimed at business people and students of business English.
-Cotton, Falvey and Kent. Market Leader. Intermediate Business English Course Book. New edition. Pearson Education, 2005.
This course manual is organized around thematic units relating to management and economic life. It offers a range of activities (articles from The Financial Times, expert interviews, speaking and writing tasks, case studies, grammar and vocabulary exercices) dealt with and exploited in class (current international economic news articles, translations, oral presentations, etc.) |
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| Course objective : | Communication skills acquisition and practice in both everyday and business contexts (reading and listening comprehension, oral and written skills, debates, reports, meetings, phone calls, business correspondence, etc.)
Each thematic unit studied in the course manual is further illustrated by topical articles excerpted from the Financial Times.
Special attention is given to preparing students to taking examinations in English at partner universities in the following year.
In continuity with and extension of the grammar and vocabulary seen in 1st Bac, the course curriculum includes a course reader on basic grammar (written in French) as well as reference notes on essential pronunciation, accentuation and spelling rules, along with exercices and answers. |
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| Prerequisites : | The course is open to HEC-Ulg students having successfully completed the 1st Bac. course programme requirements and to external students with an equivalent (intermediate) level of everyday and business English. Only a small proportion of teaching time will be devoted to grammar revision. This implies that basic grammatical structures are considered part of the A-level curriculum and should be mastered.
Should students need to revise grammar at home, we suggest using either "La Grammaire anglaise de base" (available at Intercopy, Sart Tilman), Eastwood's "Practice Grammar (OUP)" or Murphy's "English Grammar in Use" (CUP). |
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| Workshops : |
In addition to attending class regularly, students will be expected to undertake three hours' study in English per week outside the classroom throughout the academic year i.e research and prepare for upcoming classes as required, organise and acquire a considerable volume of relevant vocabulary, organise their work themselves, either alone or in small teams and do the exercises from the exercise section.
Students will be asked to write essays on the different topics discussed in class. Classwork throughout the year will be taken into account in the final marking in May and in August.
Students will be asked to make a compulsory and marked oral presentation to the class (pair work). |
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| Organization : | A 60-hour course taught 2 hours per week throughout the year plus 15 hour-exercices given 1 hour per week in the 1st semester. |
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| Written notes : |
Course reader: "English Pronunciation and Spelling Rules" (I.Peere) (15 p.) (available on line on LOL@)
Course reader: "Grammaire anglaise de base" (C. Bouvy et al. (Ulg ISLB, 2008-09) (200 p.) (available at Idecopy and Intercopy)
Course Supplement: "Course Supplement 2nd Bac English for Business" (available at Intercopy) |
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| Assessment : |
The total mark is obtained from the average between:
- a written exam (organized in the January exam session) bearing on grammar, translation, vocabulary, composition, listening comprehension, pronunciation/accentuation (1/3 of the final mark);
-an oral exam (organized in the January exam session) (1/3 of the final mark);
- a written exam (organized in the June exam session) (1/3 of the final mark).
A grammar test and 2 writing tests will be organised during the year during the weeks of 17th November, 9th February and 8th March.
The presentations will take place in the weeks: 17th November, 8th December, 9th February, 9th March, 30th March.
All tests and essays will be taken into account as classwork.
The exam in January will count for 4 marks. The final exam, testing the language and skills taught, includes a written and an oral exam and a listening comprehension. They are all compulsory. Students failing the final exam will have to resit both the written and oral exams. Students failing the exam in January have to retake it in August.
The final marks (20 marks) will be awarded as follows:
Written exam - 6 marks
Oral exam - 6 marks
Presentation - 2 marks
Classwork - 2 marks
Listening and Reading Comprehension - 4 marks (in the January session)
NB: The marks obtained for work done during the year count for both exam sessions in May and August. |
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| Contacts : | Isabelle Peere (Dr.)
Chargée de cours
Bâtiment N1 bureau 206
14 rue Louvrex
4000 Liège
tél: 04 / 232 72 83
isabelle.peere@ulg.ac.be
Anne Désirotte
Maître-assistante
Bâtiment N1 bureau 206
14 rue Louvrex
4000 Liège
tél: 04 / 232 72 85
anne.desirotte@ulg.ac.be
Emma Desforges
Chargée d'enseignement - ISLV
Bâtiment B33 -1
tél: 04/366.46.52
E.Desforges@ulg.ac.be
Ellen Harry
Chargée d'enseignement - ISLV
Bâtiment B33 -1
tél: 04/366.46.52
eharry@ulg.ac.be
(S.Puffet@ulg.ac.be) |
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| Remarks : | The language and skills content of this course cannot be acquired over a short revision period because they require regular work over the academic year. |
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