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Бакалавриат 2024/2025

Иностранный язык (английский)

Направление: 41.03.05. Международные отношения
Формат изучения: без онлайн-курса
Охват аудитории: для своего кампуса
Язык: английский
Кредиты: 4
Контактные часы: 114

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course has been designed for the students of the International Program 'International Relations and Global Studies'. This course combines language development to prepare students to use English in their further academic study at the program and intensive IELTS preparation with training in the four parts of the IELTS test – reading, listening, writing and speaking – to achieve a C1+ level (CEFR).
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • This course is aimed at developing academic reading, listening, speaking and writing skills.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Speaking: develop topic-specific vocabulary; explore ordering an argument; focus on fluency and coherence; Test practice: Part 3
  • Language development: practise forming clauses; using subordinate clauses; expressing opinions with that, review and practise pronoun referencing; learn signposting words
  • Language development: practise linking ideas and using both/neither/either, practise forming cleft sentences
  • Language development: practise reported speech patterns and using other reporting structures, practise using noun phrases
  • Language development: practise using a variety of passive forms
  • Language development: practise using sentence fragments and run-on sentences; practise punctuation
  • Language development: review and practise future forms and speculating about the future, practise cause and effect linking words
  • Language development: revise real and unreal conditionals and practise using other forms for expressing conditionality, practise using modal forms, degrees of certainty and adverbs of attitude
  • Language development: revise synonyms and practise using prefixes for paraphrasing and word formation, review tenses
  • Listening: learn how to identify distracters in Listening Section 1; practise using positive and negative vocabulary in Listening Section 1;Test practice: Section 1 (Form completion; Multiple choice)
  • Listening: learn how to identify specific information required in Listening Section 4; learn how to identify correct answers in Listening Section 4.Test practice: Section 4 (Sentence completion; Short-answer questions)
  • Listening: learn how to recognise paraphrasing in Listening Section 2; Test practice: Section 2 (Multiple choice)
  • Listening: practise following lines of argument in Listening Section 2; Test practice: Section 2 (Matching; Table completion)
  • Listening: practise listening for agreement and disagreement in Listening Section 3; understand factual descriptions in Listening Section 3; Test practice: Section 3 (Matching; Labelling a diagram)
  • Listening: practise understanding how location can be expressed; practise labelling a map or plan and form completion in Listening Section 1; Test practice: Section 1 (Label a map; Form completion)
  • Listening: practise understanding opinion from adjectives in Listening Section 4; learn how to recognise attitude from tone and intonation in Listening Section 4; Test practice: Section 4 (Multiple choice, Summary completion)
  • Listening: practise using questions to predict answers in Listening Section 2; learn how to identify links between ideas in Listening Section 2. Test practice: Section 2 (Table and note completion)
  • Reading: learn how to identify functions; Test practice (Matching information; Summary completion)
  • Reading: learn how to identify the main idea; Test practice (Matching headings; Multiple-choice questions)
  • Reading: learn how to identify the writer’s views/claims; Test practice ( Yes / No / Not given ; Multiple choice: select two answers)
  • Reading: learn how to predict content from context by scanning, Test practice: Note and table completion
  • Reading: learn how to predict supporting details by using topic sentences; Test practice (True, False, Not given; Short-answer questions)
  • Reading: learn how to work out the meaning of unknown words; Test practice (Flow chart completion; Sentence completion)
  • Reading: practise linking ideas; paraphrases; Test practice (Matching sentence endings; Summary completion)
  • Reading: practise recognising reference words; Test practice (Matching features; Note completion: Labelling a diagram; True/False/Not given)
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Lifelong learning
  • A world of change
  • The feel-good factor
  • A consumer society
  • Homes of the future
  • Law and order
  • On the move
  • Social networking
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Module 1 tasks
  • non-blocking Module 2 tasks
  • non-blocking Participation (Modules 1-2)
  • non-blocking Module 1 test
  • non-blocking Winter Exam
    IELTS Speaking parts 1-3
  • non-blocking Module 3 tasks
  • non-blocking Module 4 tasks
  • non-blocking Participation (Modules 3-4)
  • non-blocking Module 3 Test
  • non-blocking Module 4 test
  • non-blocking Summer exam
    IELTS Speaking Parts 1-3
  • non-blocking Module 2 test
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2024/2025 2nd module
    0.2 * Module 1 tasks + 0.15 * Module 1 test + 0.2 * Module 2 tasks + 0.2 * Module 2 test + 0.1 * Participation (Modules 1-2) + 0.15 * Winter Exam
  • 2024/2025 4th module
    0.2 * Module 3 Test + 0.2 * Module 3 tasks + 0.15 * Module 4 tasks + 0.2 * Module 4 test + 0.1 * Participation (Modules 3-4) + 0.15 * Summer exam
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Expert IELTS 7.5 : coursebook, Aish, F., 2017
  • Expert IELTS 7.5 student's resource book without key : suitable for students starting at band 6, Matthews, M., 2017

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Barron's IELTS superpack. [Vol.1]: Barron's IELTS: International English Language Testing System, Lougheed, L., 2016
  • Cambridge grammar for IELTS : grammar reference and practice, Hopkins, D., 2013
  • Cambridge IELTS 12: academic; with answers: authentic exanination papers, , 2017
  • Cambridge IELTS 8 : Examination papers from University of Cambridge ESOL examinations, , 2011
  • Cambridge objective IELTS [Электронный ресурс] : audio CD set, Black, M., 2012
  • Cambridge vocabulary for IELTS Advanced with answers. Self-study vocabulary practice, Cullen, P., 2012
  • Focus on IELTS Foundation, O'Connell S., 2008

Authors

  • MASLOVA LYUBOV NIKOLAEVNA
  • Lukashenko Anna Dmitrievna
  • BODISHTYANU NIKOL Витальевна
  • STYVRINA YULIYA VLADISLAVOVNA