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| LANG0701-2 | English level 2
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| Duration : | 45h 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 Course Book. 2nd 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 exercises) dealt with and exploited in class (current international economic news articles, translations, oral presentations, etc.) |
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| Course objective : | Acquisition et exploitation de l'anglais courant, économique et académique (compréhension à la lecture et à l'audition, production orale et écrite: échanges de vues, synthèses, réunions d'affaires, communications téléphoniques, correspondance commerciale, présentations, etc.)
L'objectif du cours prend en compte le passage des examens en anglais dans les universités étrangères partenaires au cours de l'année ultérieure.
En guise de développement et de renforcement des compétences grammaticales, lexicales, professionnelles et culturelles acquises au cours de l'année, la matière du cours intègre la rédaction d'une dissertation en anglais académique sur un thème donné par avance ainsi qu'une présentation en groupe d'une société. |
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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. |
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| Organization : | A 60-hour course taught 2 hours per week throughout the year. |
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| Written notes : | For 3 Languages:
- Cotton D., Falvey D., Kent S. (2005), Market Leader, Pearson Longman.
- Teacher's notes : See Lol@.
For 2 Languages:
Course Supplement: "Course Supplement 2nd Bac English for Business" (available at Intercopy) |
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| Assessment : | For 3 Languages:
The total mark is obtained from the average between:
-a written exam (organized in the January exam session) (2/3 of the final mark);
- a written oral exam (organized in the June exam session) (1/3 of the final mark).
For 2 Languages:
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 - 7 marks
Oral exam - 6 marks
Listening comprehension exam - 1 mark
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
Ellen Harry
Chargée d'enseignement
Bâtiment B33, Bureau des enseignants de l'ISLV, niveau -1
Sart-Tilman
tél: 04/ 366 46 52
eharry@ulg.ac.be
Madeleine Hubin
Chargée de cours
Bâtiment N1 bureau 206
14 rue Louvrex
4000 Liège
mmhubin@ulg.ac.be
Jonathan Soleid (replacing M. Hubin during the first term) |
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