Current events: reading and listening skills 1 1.S3.EPC.4
Course objectives
1. training to understand different types of texts for reading and listening,
2. training reading for general information, specific information, reading for the understanding context of a message,
3. training listening for general information, detailed information, and basic understanding of different types of English pronunciation.
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Course content
Listening comprehension: training in listening to understand the meaning of a range of spoken material at B2/B2+ level, including interviews, radio broadcasts, speeches and talks, monologues, and conversations held by two or three people. Training in a range of listening techniques, for example: listening for general infor-mation, listening for specific information, matching, gap-filling, paraphrasing, note-taking.
Reading comprehension: training in understanding different forms of written texts at B2/B2+ level such as: descriptions, narrative texts, critical opinions, reviews, etc. Training in a range of reading techniques, for ex-ample: matching, discriminating, selecting, grasping general or detailed information.
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Methods of instruction/ forms of classroom activity:
listening comprehension tasks, reading comprehension tasks, group work, online assignments, ICT tools/elearning option if needed
Kierunek studiów
Nakład pracy studenta
Poziom studiów
Profil kształcenia
Rodzaj przedmiotu
języki obce
obowiązkowe
Semestr, w którym realizowany jest przedmiot
Tryb prowadzenia
Koordynatorzy przedmiotu
W cyklu 2024/25-Z: | W cyklu 2023/24-Z: | W cyklu 2022/23-Z: |
Efekty kształcenia
Learning outcomes acc to PRK 2019
Knowledge
Students know and understand:
1. selected types of registers in listened and written English texts at the B2/B2+ level, typical for public communication (k_W03/P6S_WG).
2. different methods to analyse and interpret reading and listening texts at B2/B2+ level (k_W04/P6S_WG).
Skills
Students can:
3. understand information in various reading and listening texts at B2/B2+ level, typical for public communication (k_U02/P6S_UW).
4. analyse different types of reading and listening texts at B2/B2+ level, using techniques of matching, gap-filling, guessing from context, skimming, and scanning (k_U07/P6S_UO).
Social competences
Students can:
5. manage their own time and prioritise learning process in the field of studying written and listened texts at B2/B2+ level (k_K01/P6S_KK).
Kryteria oceniania
Forms of evaluation of learning outcomes:
1. Active participation 20% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4,5)
2. Mid-term test - 40% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4,5)
3. Final test - 40% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4,5)
To get a credit students need to pass all tests.
Level B2/B2+
50-59% - 3,0
60-69% - 3,5
70-79% - 4,0
80-89% - 4,5
90-100%- 5,0
Literatura
Reading list:
Used in class:
Brook-Hart, G., & Haines, S. (2014). Complete Advanced Teacher’s Book with Teacher’s Resources, Cambridge English.
Gude, K., and M. Stephens. (2014). CAE Result. Oxford: Oxford UP.
Virginia Evans, James Milton, Jenny Dooley. Listening and speaking skills 2. For revised Cambridge ESOL FCE examination. Express Publishing 2009.
Students' self-study:
https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams-and-tests/advanced/preparation/
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/business-english/podcasts-for-professionals
Więcej informacji
Dodatkowe informacje (np. o kalendarzu rejestracji, prowadzących zajęcia, lokalizacji i terminach zajęć) mogą być dostępne w serwisie USOSweb: