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Mastering English Communication II: Advanced Techniques
Faculty
Irina Shchemeleva
Academic Director, Harbour.Space@UTCC
Course length
Duration
Total hours
Credits
Language
Course type
Fee for single course
Fee for degree students
Skills you’ll learn
Overview
"Mastering English Communication II: Advanced Techniques" builds upon the foundational skills acquired in the first part of this comprehensive English course, aiming to elevate students' communication abilities. The course focuses on developing your proficiency level in English in speaking, reading, listening, and writing. You will engage with a variety of topics, honing your ability to participate effectively in academic discussions, presentations, and debates. The course will prepare students to navigate and excel in diverse professional and academic environments with confidence and precision.
Learning highlights
- Deepen your conversational skills with a broader range of words and phrases.
- Utilize a variety of synonyms and antonyms to enhance speech and writing sophistication.
- Gain proficiency in more advanced grammar topics.
- Articulate opinions, preferences, and suggestions with greater fluency; effectively manage social interactions and small talk.
- Analyze and interpret detailed information in articles, short stories, and academic texts.
- Compose coherent essays and reports with more complex structures.
Course outline
15 classes
Personal Experiences
- Grammar: Present perfect simple
- Vocabulary: Travel, Travel phrases
- Reading: Travel blogs/articles.
- Skimming and scanning techniques
Making Suggestions
- Grammar: Present perfect simple; Irregular past participles; Comparatives and superlatives
- Speaking: Making suggestions and recommendations
- Writing: Short essays on travel experiences
Valuables & Possessions
- Grammar: Verbs of sensation + adjective or like. Possessive pronouns, whose, this/that, there/then
- Vocabulary: Money and value
- Speaking: Describing valuable items
- Writing: Paragraph structure. Writing a paragraphs on valuable possessions
- Reading: Articles on valuable finds
Borrowing & Lending
- Grammar: Quantifiers (countable and uncountable nouns); Verbs with two objects
- Vocabulary: Common adjective
- Speaking: Talking about a product; Discussing borrowing and lending practices
- Reading: Articles on borrowing culture; Skimming and scanning techniques
- Writing: Emails requesting items
Revision, Progress Test
Revision, Progress Test
Sports & Activities
- Grammar: Adverbs of frequency
- Vocabulary: Sports collocations
- Speaking: Talking about sports and activities
- Writing: Descriptions of favorite sports
- Reading: Sports articles
Health & Wellness
- Grammar: Present perfect simple (2)
- Vocabulary: Health and illness
- Speaking: Discussing health problems
- Writing: Personal health logs
- Reading: Health brochures
- Comprehension: Identifying main ideas and supporting details
Handling Stress
- Grammar: be + adjective + to infinitive
- Vocabulary: The body and symptoms
- Speaking: Describing stressful situations
- Writing: Essays structure. Writing an essay on managing stress
- Reading: Articles on stress management
- Listening: Audio on personal challenges
Social Interactions
- Grammar: Present continuous with future reference
- Vocabulary: Going out and staying in
- Speaking: Making arrangements for the weekend
- Writing: Plans and itineraries
- Reading: Event listings
- Listening: Audio on social plans
Revision, Progress Test 2
Revision, Progress Test 2
Food & Dining
- Grammar: Indefinite pronouns: someone, nothing, anywhere, etc.; Adverbial and prepositional phrases
- Vocabulary: Eating out and eating in
- Speaking: Discussing food preferences
- Writing: Restaurant reviews
- Reading: Food articles
- Listening: Conversations in restaurants
Environmental Awareness
- Grammar: will for predictions
- Vocabulary: The environment
- Speaking: Discussing environmental issues
- Writing: Composing coherent essays. An Essay on environmental changes
- Reading: Environmental reports
- Comprehension: Identifying main ideas and supporting details
Future Plans
- Grammar: First conditional; Word building: nouns to adjectives
- Vocabulary: Change
- Speaking: Talking about future plans
- Writing: Letters of intent
- Reading: Future-focused articles
- Listening: Audio on future predictions
Revision, Final presentation preparation
Revision, Final presentation preparation
Presentations, Final Exam
Presentations, Final Exam
Methodology
This course uses a task-based communicative approach to the development of core English skills. It emphasizes language use in real-world contexts. The course uses instructor-led and group discussions, individual, pair and group work.
Grading
Irina Shchemeleva has extensive experience in higher education administration and curriculum development. Her professional journey includes various leadership roles such as Deputy Director for Internationalization, and Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at HSE University in St. Petersburg.
Throughout her career, spanning over two decades, Irina Shchemeleva has demonstrated a profound commitment to English language teaching. As the Head of the Department of Foreign Languages at HSE University in St. Petersburg, she oversaw the recruitment, development, and evaluation of a large faculty team while also managing curriculum development and the creation and implementation of language teaching strategies for a large student body. Irina's dedication to language education is further demonstrated by her involvement in teaching a variety of English courses and developing teaching materials.
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Mastering English Communication II: Advanced Techniques
by Irina Shchemeleva
Total hours
45 Hours
Dates
Sep 09 - Sep 27, 2024
Fee for single course
€1500
Fee for degree students
€750
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FAQ
Will I receive a certificate after completion?
Yes. Upon completion of the course, you will receive a certificate signed by the director of the program your course belonged to.
Do I need a visa?
This depends on your case. Please check with the Spanish or Thai consulate in your country of residence about visa requirements. We will do our part to provide you with the necessary documents, such as the Certificate of Enrollment.
Can I get a discount?
Yes. The easiest way to enroll in a course at a discounted price is to register for multiple courses. Registering for multiple courses will reduce the cost per individual course. Please ask the Admissions Office for more information about the other kinds of discounts we offer and what you can do to receive one.