2023/2024
Английский язык: подготовка к международным экзаменам
Статус:
Факультатив
Кто читает:
Школа иностранных языков
Когда читается:
3, 4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Чантуридзе Юлия Михайловна
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
5
Контактные часы:
80
Course Syllabus
Abstract
«International English Examinations Practice» course is a specialized highly intensive program designed to give students insight into the IELTS Academic testing system. The program focuses on four parts of the exam which are Reading, Listening, Writing and Speaking.
The course highlights crucial tips and ready-to-use techniques to keep in mind during the examination. It also draws attention to common mistakes and pitfalls hampering test takers from gaining higher scores. The program blends theory and practice, though practice prevails. Students are offered to scrutinize printed materials, peruse online learning resources as well as fulfill numerous exercises both in class and at home and thus familiarize themselves with subtleties of the testing systems.
Learning Objectives
- to give a detailed overview of all parts of various exams;
- to provide students with the language, grammar and test-taking strategies required for exams;
- to improve all four language skills, speaking, listening, reading and writing, as required for exams.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Listening - understand academic and professional discourse; - identify the main ideas and distinguish relevant supporting details of a formal or academic passage;
- Reading - understand a variety of different academic text types; - use different reading strategies and focus on target material in all types of reading passages;
- Speaking - demonstrate enhanced speaking in different task formats; - formulate, express and defend opinions using appropriate vocabulary and grammatical structures.
- Writing - produce different types of IELTS written tasks; - demonstrate enhanced vocabulary and grammatical structures;
Course Contents
- Topic 1: Urban and Rural Life
- Topic 2: Health
- Topic 3: Art
- Topic 4: Finance and Business
- Topic 5: History
Assessment Elements
- Written assessmentWritten assessment consists of essay writing, reading and listening.
- Oral assessmentOral assessment is conducted in the form of an IELTS Speaking exam and includes two parts of it.
- Independent work assessmentIndependent work includes activities that students do at home and several lexical-grammar tests.
- Final assessmentFinal assessment consists of an essay and two speaking tasks.
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 4th module0.3 * Final assessment + 0.25 * Independent work assessment + 0.2 * Oral assessment + 0.25 * Written assessment
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Mindset for IELTS : student's book 3: an official Cambridge IELTS course, , 2018
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Achieve IELTS. English for international education : student's book: intermediate - upper intermediate, Harrison, L., 2005
- Cambridge grammar for IELTS : grammar reference and practice, Hopkins, D., 2012
- Cambridge vocabulary for IELTS advanced with answers : self-study vocabulary practice, Cullen, P., 2012