2026/2027
Английский язык для общих коммуникативных целей. Основной курс - 3
Статус:
Факультатив
Когда читается:
1-3 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
48
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This discipline is part of the elective educational tracks offered to Bachelor's and Specialist's degree students choosing their optional English course in accordance with the HSE Concept of Development of Foreign-language Communicative Competence. The course aims to enhance students' language and communicative skills to the upper-intermediate level (HSE Scale: 60-69). A variety of interactive learning formats contributes to the development of soft skills, including time management, teamwork, and presentation skills. The course employs authentic materials such as articles, reviews, essays, podcasts, and videos, as well as games and web-based platforms. The flexibility and rich content of the course provide each student with an opportunity to tailor the programme to suit their individual interests and needs. Within the course, students are expected to complete home assignments and take tests in various formats, including but not limited to lexical-grammar, reading, listening, writing, and speaking tests. The course grading formula does not include blocking elements.
Learning Objectives
- The course pursues the following objectives: the complex development of skills and competences; the improvement of students’ command of English for interpersonal and intercultural communication; the enhancement of receptive and productive skills related to general purposes; the expansion of vocabulary on a variety of topics; the expansion of grammar structures in use.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Produce monologues (descriptive/informative/reasoning); write down notes for later reference; communicate spontaneously their opinions and reactions, providing explanations and examples, and invite others to join in; participate in debates (debate on abstract, complex topics)
- Understand academic/ professional presentations which are linguistically complex; use basic listening techniques (predicting, understanding main ideas and details); participate in conversations and discussions on a range of topics
- Understand text structure; understand lectures; following extended speech and complex lines of arguments; give clear and detailed talks on a wide range of topics, expanding ideas with relevant examples, evidence, or arguments; write clear, well-structured texts on a variety of subjects expanding points of view, developing arguments, synthesising and evaluating information (essays, reviews)
- Make presentations; give reasons in support or against a particular point of view, give the advantages and disadvantages of various opinions; participate in conversations and discussions on a range of topics in different contexts with good command of grammar and vocabulary; write clear and detailed lengthy texts summarizing the main ideas and selecting appropriate supporting details
- Understand the main ideas and certain details of relatively complex speech; understand dialogues and polylogues on both familiar and unfamiliar topics; read a variety of relatively complex texts on familiar and unfamiliar topics; use basic reading techniques, skimming & scanning (predicting, understanding main ideas, understanding details).
Assessment Elements
- AttendanceAttendance grade is calculated using a 10-point grading scale based on a student’s attendance rate.
- English Grammar and Vocabulary TestStudents take the English Grammar and Vocabulary Test in class. Time - 70 min.
- Home AssignmentHA includes oral and/or written tasks that are assigned to students for independent completion and submission. Students do the tasks at home and either turn them in to their teachers or submit them via Smart LMS for grading.
- Written AssessmentWA consists of minimum 4 tasks of different types, including interim ones (for example, essays, graph descriptions, reviews, reports). WA can also include annotations, listening and reading tasks, grammar and vocabulary tasks at the end of a section or topic. WA refers to written tasks that students do in class.
- Oral AssessmentOA consists of minimum 3 tasks of different types, including interim ones (for example, monologues, discussions and presentations) that students do in class.
- Final AssessmentFinal assessment equals to the interim exam which is held in the form of a written test. Time limit: 80 minutes. Exam structure: 1). Listening (L) -10 points. 2). Reading (R) -10 points 3). Writing a review (W) - 10 points. The grading formula: L*0,3+R*0,3 +W*0,4 = 10
Interim Assessment
- 2026/2027 3rd module0.1 * Home Assignment + 0.2 * Written Assessment + 0.2 * Oral Assessment + 0.1 * English Grammar and Vocabulary Test + 0.1 * Attendance + 0.3 * Final Assessment
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Roadmap B2+ : students' book with digital resources and mobile app, Bygrave, J., 2020
- Андреева Е.Ю. - A Comprehensive Grammar of Contemporary English in Higher Education Studies - 978-5-16-020949-4 - ИНФРА-М - 2025 - https://znanium.ru/catalog/product/2206802 - 2206802 - ZNANIUM
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- A GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION IN ENGLISH: Учебное пособие / Вертоградова Л.А., Манжелеевская Е.В., Милькевич Е.С. - Ростов-на-Дону:Издательство ЮФУ, 2016. - 160 с.: ISBN 978-5-9275-2004-6 - Режим доступа: http://znanium.com/catalog/product/990026
- Плетнева, М. А., Building Vocabulary Confidence: from Drill to Skill (Part I) : учебное пособие / М. А. Плетнева, А. А. Будникова, Е. С. Молчанова, ; под ред. М. А. Плетневой. — Москва : Русайнс, 2025. — 305 с. — ISBN 978-5-466-09201-1. — URL: https://book.ru/book/958177 (дата обращения: 09.12.2025). — Текст : электронный.