Semesters: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

ECTS: 4

Form of assessment: pass-fail exam

AIMS

• developing receptive and productive language skills;
• developing learner skills, including setting goals and self-assessment;
• helping students to achieve cognitive, cultural and language competence to be applied in professional context.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

On successful completion of this course of study, students should be able to:
• display confident knowledge of grammar and vocabulary;
• communicate within a wider range of general topics, participate in team work on projects;
• understand the information from different types of texts: advertisements, short news, magazine articles, blogs, essays;
• speak coherently, express viewpoints, justify opinions;
• write different types of texts: personal and business letters, reviews, descriptive, narrative and argumentative essays;
• relate facts and phenomena to inter-cultural dimensions.

CONTENT

Study.

University. Academic subjects, timetable. Teaching and learning activities, examinations, the lesson of the foreign language. Studying at the faculty of Foreign Languages. Student life. Classroom language.

Sports.

Significance of sports in the life of a person and society. Winter and summer sports. Attitude to healthy lifestyle.

Leisure.

Week days and days off. Leisure. Active and passive leisure. Free time patterns in Russia and other countries.

Clothes and fashion. Shopping.

Items of clothes, main personal possessions, sense of taste. Youth fashion. Shopping for clothes.

Food. Healthy eating.

Main food products. Ethnic cuisine. Table setting. Eating out. Shopping for food.