English 2

Duration

80h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Chloé L'Honneux, Xuan Giang Nguyen, Jonathan Solheid, Pauline Warroquiers

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long, with partial in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

- Various subjects in the form of "files", including vocabulary and different types of exercises in order to make the students familiar with the themes covered.

- Business vocabulary (upper-intermediate level) as well as vocabulary units (sections 29 to 52 + 83 + 86) taken from "Le BLED" (general thematic vocabulary).

- Frequent grammar revisions (through quizzes on Lol@).

- Listening comprehensions based on radio podcasts, video clips, conferences...

- Oral skills: presenting a company or a news topic, holding a conversation and a debate, giving one's opinion, ...

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: notions of academic writing
* 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.

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

- Obtaining the credits allocated to the course of English Level 1.

- Obtaining at least 45 credits from the 1st block (Bachelor programme in Economic and Management Sciences)

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

- Various reading and exercise files based on business-related topics. 

- Study of vocabulary.

- Listening comprehensions.

- Group presentations in class.

- Rephrasing.

- Preparation of a press file.

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face course


Additional information:

Essentially in class. However, students will also be given different kinds of homework, such as:

* personal preparation and study of vocabulary 

* exercises (texts, video clips, audio extracts, ...) to do or finish at home

* preparation for in-class presentations

* grammar quizzes

* personal preparation of different documents (seen during the lessons or not) that are deemed as part of the stuff to study for the exams

Recommended or required readings

Documents will be provided gradually on Lol@ (course code: LANG1953-1). However, we do not provide keys to in-class exercises, and students will have to establish their own lists of vocabulary; it is therefore highly desirable to come to class in order to take some personal notes.

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, 2021).
• Book for June's exam (title to be communicated).
• In-class files (posted on Lol@)

• MURPHY R., English Grammar in Use, 5th 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 

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions ) AND oral exam

Out-of-session test(s)


Additional information:

FIRST SESSION

June's final mark rests on the whole year's workload, that is divided as follows:

1. Written skills :

January's examincluding among others:

• unseen listening comprehension
• sentences to translate
• vocabulary exercises (in-class units & BLED 29 to 40)
• reading comprehension

• listening comprehension
• opinion note/open questions
• vocabulary exercises (in-class units & BLED 41 to 52 + 83 + 69)
• questions about a book (June)

• December: case study (oral exam in groups)
• June: face-to-face oral exam (based on a press file)
• In-class presentation (Q2) about one of the topics covered in class

• listening comprehension
• opinion note/open questions
• sentences to translate
• reading comprehension/questions about a book
• vocabulary exercises (in-class units & BLED 29 to 52 + 83 + 86)

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

IMPORTANT 

1. We give repeating students NO EXEMPTIONS.

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2. Students who fail January's exam risk being considered unfit to go on Erasmus to an English-speaking destination next year ==> make sure you give it your best!

Contacts

- Hélène BRIAMONT: hbriamont@uliege.be

- Xuan Giang NGUYEN: xg.nguyen@uliege.be

- Jonathan SOLHEID: jonathan.solheid@uliege.be

- Pauline WARROQUIERS: pwarroquiers@uliege.be



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