Информация о курсе

General information about the course

The course aims to develop listening, reading, writing and speaking skills, revise grammar material and increase vocabulary on the topics concerned. The course is developed for learning English for General Purposes by the first year students of еру specialty «Translation and Translation Studies», 1st semester. 

The course covers such topics as English phonetics, personality (appearance and character), family issues, sport and equipment and world art as well as plural nouns, articles, degrees of comparison, present tenses, past tenses and future tenses.

After studying this course students should be able to demonstrate

knowledge of: 

• English vocabulary and grammar necessary for successful oral and written communication in the fields related to the thematic scope of the course;   

• different methods for searching and analysing of information from various English language sources (oral and written);

 
skills in:

• understanding oral and written English related to education, work, jobs, career, employment;

• generating written and oral statements using English in the situations related to the thematic scope of the course;

• making and delivering presentations in English;

• writing essays and summaries;

• analysing written and oral English to express their agreement/disagreement and justify personal opinions.

45.05.01 «Translation and Translation Studies»

Module 1 "Introductory phonetic course";
Module 2 "Personality;
Module 3 "Sport, leisure, art".

Course duration: 18 weeks
Course complexity: 5 credits/180 hours
Form of control: pass/fail exam

Zeremskaya Yu.A., PhD in Philology, associate professor, Division of Foreign Languages, TPU