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| LANG0501-1 | English level 2
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| Duration : | 60h Th, 15h Pr |
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| Holder(s) : | Anne Desirotte, Ellen Harry, ISLV |
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| Coordinator : | Ellen Harry |
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| Language : | English language |
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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. 2nd ed. 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 everyday, business and academic English (reading and listening comprehension, oral and written skills, debates, reports, meetings, phone calls, etc.)
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, the vocabulary, the professional and cultural skills developed throughout the year, the course urriculum includes the writing of an essay in academic English on a given topic and a group presentation of a company. |
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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-exercises given 1 hour per week in the 2nd term.
* For 3 languages:
During the first term, there will be no difference between theory and exercises in order to allow for a two-hour activity whether it be theory or an exercise. |
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| Written notes : |
- Cotton D., Falvey D., Kent S. (2005), Market Leader, Pearson Longman
- Files on Lol@
For 2 Languages:
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 January) based on grammar, translations, vocabulary, a summary, listening comprehension;
- an oral exam (organized in June);
- a written exam (organized in June);
- continuous assessment (mini-tests, presentations and an essay).
A grammar test and 2 writing tests will be organised during the year during the weeks of 15th November, 14th February and 14th March.
The presentations will take place in the weeks: 15th November, 6th December, 14th February, 14th March, 28th March.
All tests and essays will be taken into account as classwork.
The exam in January will count for 2 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
Listening comprehension exam - 2 marks
Presentation - 2 marks
Classwork - 2 marks
Reading Comprehension - 2 marks (in the January session) |
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| Contacts : | 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
Fanny Novakovic
Chargée d'enseignement - ISLV
Fanny.Novakovic@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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