2024/2025
English for General Academic Purposes. Upper-Intermediate Course – 3
Type:
Optional course
Delivered by:
School of Foreign Languages
When:
1-3 module
Open to:
students of one campus
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
50
Course Syllabus
Abstract
"English for General Academic Purposes. Upper-Intermediate Course-3" for the 2nd year students is designed to develop foreign-language communicative, integrated, and critical thinking skills that are based on "Regulations for Interim and Ongoing Assessments of Students at National Research University Higher School of Economics" and "Concept of Development of English-language Communicative Competence of HSE Students". Every student has slightly different needs, depending on their chosen discipline, cultural background, and other factors. However, the primary skills, tasks, and academic language are common to most disciplines and are relevant to the needs of most students preparing to study English at the university level. The course is focused on core tasks relevant to all students, such as working out the main points of an academic text or lecture (such as biology, economics, the humanities, and others). The course is designed to equip learners with reading, writing, and oral communication skills based on upper-intermediate-level English that are necessary to succeed in courses at the university. The blended instructional model provides students with an inspiring collection of extensive authentic content. There are no blocking points of assessment. Forms of formative and summative assessment are written assessment (0.25), oral assessment (0.20), student independent work/online (0.25), and final test (0.3).
Learning Objectives
- to improve students' ability to read and understand journal articles, texts, lectures from different perspectives
- to increase students' comprehension of spoken English
- to systematically and progressively develop students’ academic skills, language, and critical thinking
- to provide material for the students to revise, consolidate and extend their command of English grammar and vocabulary
- to develop the students’ reading skills to enable them to skim the text for the main idea, to scan the text for specific information, to interpret the text for inferences, attitudes and styles, to deduce meanings from the context
- to develop the students’ listening skills to enable them to understand and apply specific information from the input
- to develop the students’ general capacity to the level that enables them to use English in their professional and academic environment, granted that they are provided with the specific notions and vocabulary in the course of their studies
- to strengthen students' speaking and writing skills in a range of different topics
Expected Learning Outcomes
- to express oneself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions
- to produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices
- to interact with other speakers flawlessly and efficiently
- to know and use advanced academic vocabulary
- to link multiple sources to produce a cohesive book/article/documentary/literature review
- to use EGAP flexibly and effectively
Course Contents
- Unit 1. Bioethics
- Unit 2. Business and Design
- Unit 3. Zoology
- Unit 4. History
- Unit 5. Chemical Engineering
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 3rd module0.3 * Final Test + 0.2 * Oral Assessment + 0.25 * Written Assessment + 0.25 * student independent work/online
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Achieve IELTS 1 : English for International Education, Intermediate - Upper Intermediate : Band 4.5 to 6 : Student's Book, 163 p., Harrison, L., Cushen, C., 2005
- Achieve IELTS 1 : English for International Education, Intermediate - Upper Intermediate : Band 4.5 to 6 : Workbook, 100 p., Cushen, C., Hutchison, S., Harrison, L., 2005
- Achieve IELTS 1 : English for International Education, Intermediate - Upper Intermediate : Class Audio CDs, 2 оптич. диска (CD-ROM), Harrison, L., Cushen, C., 2005
- Achieve IELTS 1 : English for International Education, Intermediate - Upper Intermediate : Teacher's Book, 112 p., Harrison, L., Cushen, C., Hutchison, S., 2005
- Achieve IELTS. English for international education : student's book: intermediate - upper intermediate, Harrison, L., 2005
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- CAE practice tests : for the revised Cambridge ESOL CAE Examination, Student's Book, 5th impression, 163 p., Obee, B., Evans, V., Dooley, J., 2019
- Cambridge Academic English : An integrated skills course for EAP : Upper Intermediate, Student's Book, 178 p., Hewings, M., 2012
- Cambridge Academic English : An integrated skills course for EAP : Upper Intermediate, Student's Book, Course consultant M. McCarthy, 5th ed., 176 p., Hewings, M., 2015
- Cambridge Academic English : An integrated skills course for EAP : Upper Intermediate, Teacher's Book, 159 p., Sowton, C., Hewings, M., 2012
- Cambridge Academic English : Upper Intermediate, An integrated skills course for EAP : Class Audio CD, Course consultant : M. McCarthy, 1 оптич. диск (Class Audio CD), Hewings, M., 2012
- Cambridge Academic English : Upper Intermediate, An integrated skills course for EAR : DVD, Course consultant : M. McCarthy, 1 оптич. диск (DVD), Hewings, M., 2012
- Cambridge Academic English : Upper Intermediate, an integrated skills course for EAR, 2 оптич. диска (Class Audio CD; DVD), Hewings, M., McCarthy, M., 2012
- Cambridge academic English. An integrated skills course for EAP. Upper-intermediate [Электронный ..., Hewings M., 2012
- Oxford grammar for EAP : english grammar and practice for academic purposes with answers, Paterson, K., 2013