Learning Outcomes ENGL03

Course Description

This course is the first of two courses taught at the upper-intermediate level and seeks to transition students from the intermediate level. Intermediate skills with an emphasis on near-authentic reading and listening texts are employed. Students will study academic essay writing, and learn how to prepare and deliver a short oral presentation. The materials used are at CEFR B1 and B2 levels.

Learning Outcomes – Listening

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

  • Further develop their listening skills
  • Extract specific information
  • Identify tone
  • Distinguish individual sounds
  • Identify the main subject of a listening

Learning Outcomes – Reading

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

  • Extract specific information from a text
  • Identify the main subjects at both paragraph and whole-text level
  • Make inferences about a text
  • Infer the meaning of unknown vocabulary from context
  • Link pronouns with their referents

Learning Outcomes – Writing

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

  • Demonstrate email-writing skills, including subject lines, greetings, and salutations
  • Support their statements and points of view with appropriate explanations and example
  • Develop an argument by using logical points which are well reasoned
  • Produce an email written at a register appropriate to their recipient
 

Learning Outcomes – Speaking

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

  • Converse and give their opinions on a wide range of topics
  • Express themselves using a wide range of vocabulary, including some more complex items
  • Demonstrate an ability to use more advanced grammatical structures in conversation

  • Present or talk at a reasonable length without interruption on a particular topic

Learning Outcomes – Vocabulary

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

  • Use over 600 new items (B1-B2 level)