Bachelor
2020/2021
Practical Course of the English Language: Grammar, Phonetics, Practice of Oral and Written Speech
Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Type:
Compulsory course (Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication)
Area of studies:
Linguistics
Delivered by:
School of Foreign Languages
Where:
School of Foreign Languages
When:
2 year, 1-4 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Instructors:
Смирнова Анна Георгиевна,
Широкова Светлана Юрьевна,
Мартюшова Наталья Олеговна,
Листопадова Мария Владимировна,
Михеева Наталья Дмитриевна,
Смирнова Анна Георгиевна,
Широкова Светлана Юрьевна,
Yulia Aleshina,
Eliza Aloyan,
Ksenia Chermoshentseva,
Kamilla Chotсhaeva,
Tatiana Ershova,
Anastasia Filipskaya,
Yulia Grevtseva,
Olga A. Kolykhalova,
Maria Loktionova,
Evgeniya Lubennikova,
Elena Lutkova,
Anna Martirosyan,
Natalia Mironenko,
Sergey Ryabchun,
Tatiana Sidelnikova,
Elena Styrina,
Irina Terentieva,
Mariia Tsygunova,
Evgenia Vasilyeva,
Ksenia Vasilyuk,
Tatiana Zelenova,
Elena Zyrianova
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
12
Contact hours:
204
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course leads students towards the C1 level according to CEFR in all aspects and skills. The course covers a wide range of topics, and students are involved in a variety of activities that let them progress in both productive and receptive skills. Students will have the opportunity to engage with longer and denser texts of various genres and registers. They will be able to develop their social and academic competencies as the course implies group, pair and project work.
Learning Objectives
- The principle goal of is formation of universal and professional competencies (including instrumental and social and personal competencies), defined in the Education Standard of HSE in the field of study 45.03.02 “Linguistics”.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- - Correctly use perfect forms in speaking and writing
- - Use topical vocabulary in speaking and writing
- - Use vocabulary to describe recovery and change
- - Use binomials, structures for emphasis, reinforcement and exemplification
- - Listen to texts at C1 level for gist, for detail and for specific information;
- - Read texts at C1 level for gist, for detail and for specific information;
- - Use cleft sentences in speaking
- - Use vocabulary to speak about society and culture, household objects
- - Use structures for generalisation in speaking
- - Use argumentation in a discursive essay
- - Apply learning strategies to support reading and listening;
- - Make notes when reading authentic texts;
- - Use active vocabulary and structures to produce written and spoken texts;
- - Use C1 vocabulary and structures in speaking and writing;
- - Use would for different grammatical purposes
- - Use vocabulary to describe people and relationships
- - Write a newspaper article
- - Give impressions in speaking
- - Speak at lengths (1.5-2 mins) on the topic given;
- - Be able to support an opinion;
- - Use linking devices for coherence and cohesion.
- - Use noun phrases in speaking and writing
- - Use vocabulary to describe books and films
- - Be able to comment on, write a review
- - Use samples for writing and speaking;
- - Participate in a dialogue using phrases for emphasis and reinforcement, agreement and disagreement, asking for information, expressing opinion, backtracking and correcting, etc.;
- - Plan and execute independent work;
- - Correctly use conditionals in speaking and writing
- - Use vocabulary to describe consequences
- - Use structures for reinforcement and exemplification
- - Write a summary of an article
- - Structure and write a summary;
- - Use wish/ if only for different grammatical purposes
- - Use structures for argumentation
- - Use metaphors in speech
- - Use structures for defending and excusing
- - Plan, structure, create and edit a range of written products such as essays, reviews, magazine articles;
- - Describe an experience;
- - Use passive structures in speaking and writing
- - Be able to use word formation
- - Be able to describe statistics
- - Express surprise and disbelief in speaking
- - Be able to write a report
- - Take notes when listening to authentic texts;
- - Manage time and resources
- - Correctly use auxiliaries in speaking and writing
- - Be able to describe scenery;
- - Be able to describe communication
- - Use compound adjectives
- - Use emphatic tags in speaking
- - Use monolingual dictionaries, thesauruses, and dictionaries of collocations;
- - Correctly use continuous forms in speaking and writing
- - Use adverb-adjective collocations
- - Use structures to make deductions
- - Write a letter of application/ a covering letter
- - Distinguish between the main idea and supporting details.
- - Use assessment criteria when executing a task;
- - Correctly use modals in speaking and writing
- - Use nouns based on phrasal verbs
- - Use vague language in speaking
- - Writing a letter of complaint
- - Use self- and peer-assessment;
- - Correctly use linking words and phrases in speaking and writing
- - Use structures for alliteration
- - Create irony and humour in speaking
- - Correctly use inversion in speaking and writing
- - Describe personal histories and historical events
- - Be able to use similes in speech
- - Use contextualised questions in speaking
Course Contents
- 2nd year. Practical Course of the First Foreign Language: Grammar, Phonetics, Speech Practice. Topic 1. Cities.The students will have developed the awareness of the problems cities face and possible solutions to these problems;
- 2nd year. Practical Course of the First Foreign Language: Grammar, Phonetics, Speech Practice. Topic 2. Culture and identity-The students will have developed the awareness of the cultural and psychological roots of urban myths; the meaning of culture, cultural markers and cultural identity;
- 2nd year. Practical Course of the First Foreign Language: Grammar, Phonetics, Speech Practice. Topic 3. Relationships.What influences relationships between people; culturally determined features of relationships;
- 2nd year. Practical Course of the First Foreign Language: Grammar, Phonetics, Speech Practice. Topic 4. Entertainment.Peculiarities of cultural life in different countries;
- 2nd year. Practical Course of the First Foreign Language: Grammar, Phonetics, Speech Practice. Topic 5. PoliticsCharacteristic features of political systems; public attitude towards politics in different countries;
- 2nd year. Practical Course of the First Foreign Language: Grammar, Phonetics, Speech Practice. Topic 6. ConflictsHow people behave in emergency;
- 2nd year. Practical Course of the First Foreign Language: Grammar, Phonetics, Speech Practice. Topic 7. Science and researchScientific achievements and the problems modern science faces;
- 2nd year. Practical Course of the First Foreign Language: Grammar, Phonetics, Speech Practice. Topic 8. NatureNatural world and the issues it is facing;
- 2nd year. Practical Course of the First Foreign Language: Grammar, Phonetics, Speech Practice. Topic 9. WorkThe world of work and its legal regulations; business and management in the modern world;
- 2nd year. Practical Course of the First Foreign Language: Grammar, Phonetics, Speech Practice. Topic 10. Health and IllnessDescribe different medical and surgical procedures; describe medical conditions and their symptoms
- 2nd year. Practical Course of the First Foreign Language: Grammar, Phonetics, Speech Practice. Topic 11. PlayVarious sports and their rules; explain how to play different games
- 2nd year. Practical Course of the First Foreign Language: Grammar, Phonetics, Speech Practice. Topic 12. HistorySome key historical events and personalities; describe key events in people's lifes
Assessment Elements
- ParticipationThe teacher assesses the students’ work in class: participation in class discussions, role-plays, written tasks fulfillment, active vocabulary and grammar acquisition tasks, quizzes, etc. The teacher also assesses homework completion, self-study tasks completion, and classroom participation. The grades for these types of activities are recorded in the register (decimal system: 0-10), and the mean is calculated at the end of the year – O aud .Оaud = Ʃ Оaudl i /n
- OralThe students deliver a monologue and present a dialogue (the teacher may choose to do one dialogue per two or three units) at the end of each unit. All these marks are added up, the average is calculated and rounded: Оoral = Ʃ Оoral i /n
- TestThe grade for ongoing assessment is calculated as the mean of the 4 tests, one at the end of each module: Оtest = Ʃ Оtest i /n (n=4).
- Self-studyStudents complete extended listening and reading tasks after covering each unit on a self-study basis. The mean of the marks is calculated at the end of the year: Оself-study = Ʃ Оself-study i /n.
- ExamThe examination is a written test. The demo version are in Appendix 1. The marks are rounded down from 0.5 and up from 0.6. 80 points – maximum Оwritten exam = Оnumber of correct answers * 10 /80 The examination in Practical Grammar in Module 2 will be held in LMS. To do this, students need to have access to the site https://lms.hse.ru/, as well as a login and a password to enter. Headphones and a microphone are not required. Students can enter the platform well in advance, but the assignments must be started at the set time. Students, who start the test earlier than the specified time, causing the system to crash, will receive 0 points for the whole test. If during the writing of the test, the Internet does not work for some time, the student continues the test until the connection is restored. If the connection does not resume, the student takes screenshots of their answers, written in the absence of Internet connection, and sends them to the teacher. If the answers for the task on translation overlap for 80% or more among different students of one group, 0 points are awarded for this task to all the students who have such a coincidence. Any applications sent after the end of the test writing time will not be accepted.
- Grammar M1Grammar M1 element is comprised by the following aspects: О = 0,05*Оtests + 0,05*Оcontact work + 0,05*ОLMS + 0,1*Оfinal test
- Grammar M2Grammar M1 element is comprised by the following aspects: О = 0,2*Оtests + 0,2*Оcontact work + 0,1*ОLMS + 0,5*Оfinal test
- Exam
Interim Assessment
- Interim assessment (2 module)0.5 * Exam + 0.25 * Grammar M1 + 0.25 * Grammar M2
- Interim assessment (4 module)0.3 * Exam + 0.2 * Oral + 0.2 * Participation + 0.1 * Self-study + 0.2 * Test
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Грамматика современного английского языка : учебник для вузов, Крылова, И. П., 2017
- Евсюкова Е. Н., Рутковская Г. Л., Тараненко О. И. - АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫК. READING AND DISCUSSION 2-е изд., испр. и доп. Учебное пособие для вузов - М.:Издательство Юрайт - 2019 - 147с. - ISBN: 978-5-534-07996-8 - Текст электронный // ЭБС ЮРАЙТ - URL: https://urait.ru/book/angliyskiy-yazyk-reading-and-discussion-438983
- Синтаксис английского языка : от слова к тексту : учеб. пособие, Сергеева, Ю. М., 2018
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Маньковская, З.В. Английский язык в ситуациях повседневного делового общения : учеб. пособие / З.В. Маньковская. — Москва : ИНФРА-М, 2019. — 223 с. — (Высшее образование: Бакалавриат). - ISBN 978-5-16-005065-2 (print); ISBN 978-5-16-105422-2 (online). - Текст : электронный. - URL: http://znanium.com/catalog/product/995410