Study Programmes 2016-2017
LANG1953-1  
English 2
Duration :
80h Th
Number of credits :
Bachelor in economics and business management7
Lecturer :
Lucie Gillet, Xuan Giang Nguyen, Jonathan Solheid
Coordinator :
Jonathan Solheid
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
All year long, with partial in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents :
- Various subjects presented as "files", including vocabulary and different types of exercises in order to make the students familiar with the themes broached.
- Business vocabulary (intermediate level) as well as some vocabulary units retrieved from BLED (thematic voabulary).
- Frequent grammar revisions.
- Listening comprehensions often based on actual radio podcasts (most of the time retrieved from the BBC News website).
- Oral skills: presenting a company or a news topic, holding a conversation and a debate, giving one's opinion, ...
- Academic writing.
- Press file (compiled individually by the students)
Learning outcomes of the learning unit :
- To reach the B2 European level of language proficiency.
- In practice:
* oral abilities: the student will be able to express themselves fluently on business and/or economic topics as well as on more general topics thanks to the acquisition of common vocabulary (through the study of the 'Bled'; see "compulsory readings" hereunder)
* writing skills: the student will have to be able to deliver a paper of academic quality about a specific topic while respecting the rules in effect (APA norms)
* reading competences: the student will have to be able to understand an unseen text and summarize it, rephrase its information, comment it, and answer questions about its content
* listening competences: the student will have to be able to understand the information given in an unknown audio extract, recognize its main elements, and render the information as cleary as possible in their own words
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Implementation :
The course will train the student to work efficiently in an international and multidisciplinary team, among others in a leading position when confronted with a complex situation. The course will train the student to analyze his managerial practice with a critical and ethical mind when confronted with a complex situation.
Communication :
The course will allow students to communicate efficiently, internally and externally, about a company, organization or project
- in at least three languages, including English - taking into account the multicultural and international features of their environment
Adaptability :
The course will encourage students to be curious and to show a scientific precision of academic level in their studies as well as in their professional life.
The course will encourage students to be creative, self sufficient and full of entrepreneurial spirit in their studies as well as in their professional life.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
- B1 level.
- Lower intermediate English MUST be acquired at this level. Everyday vocabulary and structures must be acquired too as well as some knowledge of business vocabulary.
- Obtaining the credits allocated to the course of English Level 1
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
- Various reading and exercise files based on business-related topids. 
- Learning of texts vocabulary as well as derived vocabulary.
- Listening comprehensions from the Market Leader and from the BBC World Service + film.
- Group presentations in class of a company and newspaper articles, followed by a debate on the topic chosen by the students that will be assessed as continuous evaluation, on the part of the presenting students as well as this of those you will take part in the debate.
- Rephrasing.
- Learning of academic writing ending up in the writing of a marked essay.
- Inidividual preparation of a press file including articles chosen by the students themselves, which will function as the basis for the oral exam in June.
- Speaking (discussions on different topics, case studies etc.)
- Watching a movie in class about which questions will be asked at the written exam in January. 
- Reading of a book / extracts of a book about which questions will be asked at the written exam in June.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
- Essentially in class. However, students will also be given different kinds of homework, such as:
* scientific research for the essay
* personal preparation and study of vocabulary 
* exercises to do or finish at home
* group preparation for the presentations
* personal preparation of different documents (texts and video clips) that are deemed as part of the stuff to study for the written exams
Recommended or required readings :
A part of the notes will be synthetized in the shape of a syllabus that will be available at the 'Centrale des Cours'. The rest will be provided gradually on the school platform Lol@ (course code: LANG1953-1). However, it is highly desirable to come to class in order to take some personal notes regarding the content of the course which may be useful for answering the content questions in the exam.
Here are the books needed to be able to follow the course:
Compulsory:
CROSS, B., PERRIN, I., SUSSEL, A. "Le Bled: anglais vocabulaire", (Hachette éducation: Paris, 2014).
Recommended:
COTTON D., FALVEY, D., KENT, S. "Market Leader Intermediate", 3rd edition,(Pearson Education Limited: Harlow, 2010).
MURPHY R., "English Grammar in Use", 3rd edition, (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2004).
Dictionary ROBERT & COLLINS "Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English" or "The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English"  "The Oxford Dictionary of Business English for Learners of English", Oxford University 
Assessment methods and criteria :
Important notice: The final mark comprises more than just the June exam:
- January exam (written): 27,5%
(Exam 17,5% + Essay 10%)
- June exam (written): 17,5%
- Oral part: 40%
(June oral exam 25% + presentation Q1 5% + presentation Q2 / debate 10%)
- Mid-term tests and Bled tests: 10% 
- Continuous evaluation: 5%
Work placement(s) :
No internship.
Organizational remarks :
IMPORTANT : as we want to ensure you make the necessary efforts to get to grasp with the English language and that you have the required mastery to be accepted in the upper level, we will pay a lot of attention to the mark you get ; that means that you will not be granted the credits for this course if you do not reach a full 10/20.
A full 10 means that we will not round any mark between 9 and 9,99 up to 10, but down to 9 (so, if you get 9,98/20, this will be considered as 9/20). This rule will be applied in two cases : for your final mark in June, and in September, should you have to re-take your exam in August.
Contacts :
- Ms Gillet : Lucie.gillet@ulg.ac.be
- Ms Nguyen: xg.nguyen@ulg.ac.be
- Mr Solheid : Jonathan.solheid@ulg.ac.be
Office 207 in N1