Информация о курсе

О курсе

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 the specialty «Translation and Translation Studies», 2nd semester. 

The course covers such topics as Travelling/Food/Health problems, Cross-cultural communication, Environmental issues, Education/Student life as well as Modal verbs, Passive voice, Reported speech and Subjunctive Mood: Conditionals/Wishes/Unreal past.

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 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 "Travelling and Cross-cultural communication"
Module 2 "Environmental issues"
Module 3 "Education"

Course duration: 18 weeks
Course complexity: 10 credits/360 hours
Form of control: pass/fail test

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