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| LANG0003-2 | English level 2
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| Duration : | 60h Th, 30h Pr |
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| Holder(s) : | Frédéric Depas, ISLV, Dorothy Mathews |
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| Coordinator : | Frédéric Depas |
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| Language : | English language |
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| Course contents : | This course is an upper-intermediate level course for sociology students.
It is based on the second half of the coursebook entitled "Academic Encounters: Life in Society," which exercises study skills such as note taking on top of the four basic language skills (listening, speaking, writing and reading). |
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| Course objective : | The course provides a variety of challenging tasks and communicative activities for practising the language.
It also enables students to practice further all four language skills: reading, speaking, listening and writing.
This is an intermediate to upper-intermediate course. (CEFRL B2) |
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| Prerequisites : | 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).
Students will have the opportunity to ask for further explanations in class and tests will be organised regularly to enable them to check their progress. |
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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 the first session. |
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| Organization : | The class is taught 3 hours a week over the two semesters.
Students will have to take part actively in three hours of class weekly. The third hour will be devoted to exercising oral skills.
When necessary, students will also benefit from remedial classes or tutorials with their teachers.
To be ready for this class, students should expect to have to work on average another three hours at home (self-study of grammar, preparation of the grammar and vocabulary exercises, writing exercises and listening practice, readings and information search).
Regular tests will be organised during the year to check how well students have prepared their course. These tests will account for a percentage of the final mark and will allow the students to assess what they have learned, what they still need to improve, how much they have progressed and whether their method of working enables them to cope efficiently with the requirements of the course. |
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| Written notes : | Students will have to buy the course book entitled "Academic Encounters: Life in Society" (two-book set). Practicalities will be discussed during the first class.
A course book supplement will also be available at Intercopy as of the beginning of September. |
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| Assessment : | Compulsory grammar, reading comprehension, writing and listening tests will be organised during the year.
All compulsory tests and essays will be taken into account as classwork.
The final exam, testing the language and skills taught, includes a written and an oral exam. They are both compulsory. Students failing the final exam will have to resit both the written and oral exams.
The oral exam will be 2 chapters from Sociology: a Global Introduction by John J. Macionis and Ken Plummer. Those two chapters are Chapters 5 (Culture) and 22 (Communication and the New Media).
The final marks (20 marks) will be awarded as follows:
First session (May -June):
- Written exam - 8 marks
- Oral exam - 6 marks
- Listening test - 2 marks
- Classwork - 3 marks
- Attendance and participation - 1 mark (This mark will not be awarded to students who have not attended at least 70% of the classes.)
Second session (August):
- Written exam - 10 marks
- Oral exam - 8 marks
- Listening test - 2 marks
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| Contacts : | Frederic Depas (F.Depas@ulg.ac.be)
Dorothy Mathews (D.Mathews@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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