Course description:
Conversation:
(837b) Students will present clear, detailed descriptions on a wide range of subjects related to their field of interest.
(837b) Students will explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.
(837b) Students will take an active part in discussion in familiar contexts, accounting for and sustaining their views.
(837b) Students will present clear, detailed descriptions of complex subjects integrating sub-themes, developing particular points and rounding off with an appropriate conclusion.
(837b) Students will express themselves fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions.
Writing:
(837b) Students will write clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects related to their interests.
(837b) Students will write an essay or report, passing on information or giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view.
(837b) Students will write letters highlighting the personal significance of events and experiences.
(837b) Students will express themselves in clear, well-structured text, expressing points of view at some length.
(837b) Students will write about complex subjects in a letter, an essay or a report, underlining what they consider to be the salient issues.
Reading:
(837b) Students will read articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems in which the writers adopt particular attitudes or viewpoints.
(837b) Students will understand contemporary literary prose (fragments).
(837b) Students will understand long and complex factual and literary texts, appreciating distinctions of style.
(837b) Students will understand specialized articles and longer technical instructions.
Listening:
- Students will understand extended speech and lectures with a familiar topic.
- Students will understand extended speech and lectures and follow even complex lines of argument provided structured and when relationships whether live or broadcast, even when the topic is reasonably familiar.
- Students will understand most TV news and current affairs programmes.
- Students will understand 65% of films in standard dialect.