Semesters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

ECTS: 4

Form of assessment: exam

AIMS

• develop confidence in receptive and productive skills necessary for effective communication;
• assist the students in achieving grammatical accuracy, awareness of complex structures – idioms, collocations, fixed phrases, phrasal verbs;
• improve reading strategies, writing precision and stylistic variety, ability to use general, social and subject-specific language, eschange ideas, justify opinions.

LEARNING OUTCOMES 

On successful completion of this course of study students should be able to:
• express themselves fluently and accuately on complex topics;
• use language flexibly for social, academic and professional purposes;
• identify and differentiate between varieties of style, genre, social register in a foreign language, use complex lexico-grammatical structures;
• employ various forms of writing techniques and reading strategies, means of text organization and cohesion.

CONTENT

Sport. Healthy lifestyle. Training and fitness. Popular winter and summer sports. Key sports figures. History of the Olympics. Paralympic games.

Future profession. Comparing different national education systems. Education at different levels: characteristics of primary, secondary and tertiary education. Teaching as a career. Language teaching.

Mass media. Information in the 21st century. Printed media: newspapers, magazines. Television. Popular TV shows. Online media. Social networks. Positive and negative impacts of the internet.