Related fields of study:
- History of Science
- Gender Studies
Skills:
- Reading
- B2: Scanning through a text, locating main ideas and relevant details.
- B1: Activating previous knowledge on a specific topic to perform a given task.
- B2: Identifying the structure of written texts and signalling organizational devices.
- C1: Recognizing different levels of formality in texts and interpreting them to understand the writing context
- B1: Identifying the topic sentence of a paragraph based on its position and content
- B2: Using visual and written information to infer the meaning of new words.
- B2: Identifying, understanding and remembering collocations.
- Writing
- B2: Taking relevant notes on important points of a text
- C1: Applying analysis skills to identify the features of narrative discourse
- B2: Organizing the main events into a logical chronology
- B1: Synthesizing relevant information to elaborate a biography
- Listening
- B1: Applying previous knowledge to understand a listening passage.
- B1: Using visual information to understand the main ideas in a spoken text
- B2: Using contextual clues to infer the meaning of new vocabulary items.
- B2: Identifying the main ideas in a short video clip and checking comprehension.
- Speaking
- B2: Extracting the main ideas in a short passage and using them in a debate.
- B2: Expressing an opinion by providing a clear argument and relevant examples.
- C1: Participating in a debate, presenting the advantages and disadvantages of various options.
- B1: Applying the -ed pronunciation rules in the simple past and past participle of regular verbs.
Related fields of study:
- Computer science
- Business
- Law
Skills:
- Reading
- B2: Scanning texts and locating main ideas and specific details.
- B1: Activating previous knowledge on computer security and combining it with information in a new text.
- C1: Identifying different types of text in view of their audience and purpose.
- Writing
- B2: Identifying the target reader of a text as a pre-writing stage.
- B2: Outlining and drafting ideas and opinions.
- B2: Writing clear and detailed instructions
- B2: Identifying and correcting slips and mistakes.
- C1: Using linguistic items related to instructions (time clauses, etc.), word-formation, participles (e.g. warning-warned) and vocabulary on computer security.
- Listening
- C1: Watching documentaries and taking relevant notes
- B2: Using contextual clues to infer the meaning of new words
- B1: Identifying pairs/series of synonyms in a listening passage
- B1: Extracting the main ideas of oral texts on computer security.
- B2: Scanning through an oral text and evaluating its content.
- B2: Extracting relevant ideas from a documentary and using them in debates.
- Speaking
- B1: Identifying the specific parts of a dialogue.
- B2: Offering relevant advice on computer security.
- B2: Participating in a role- play on computer security and sustaining your opinions in a debate.
- B2: Using contextual clues to infer the meaning of new words.
- B1: Applying pronunciation rules of suffixes such as –able, -ous or –tion correctly.
- B1: Focusing on pronouncing pairs of words with different stress (вЂupdate/up’date).
- B2: Assimilating and using new vocabulary on computer security.
Related fields of study:
Skills:
- Reading
- B2: Using a variety of strategies and contextual clues to infer the meaning of new words.
- B2: Identifying the multiple usages of polysemic words.
- B1: Obtaining detailed information, ideas and opinions.
- B2: Reading journalistic texts and grasping their essential particularities.
- B1: Identifying the topic
- B2: Reading and locating the main ideas of a text.
- B2: Assimilating vocabulary items in the legal field.
- B2: Assimilating vocabulary related to trends in general and academic life.
- Writing
- C1: Organizing content and structure to generate a process description.
- B2: Writing coherent argumentative essays or reports.
- B1: Expressing essential information in clear and relevant topic sentences.
- B2: Joining topic sentences and supplementary information to develop an outline and a written a text.
- Listening
- B1: Using previous knowledge to understand new oral texts on internet piracy.
- B2: Identifying the main ideas in a listening passage.
- B2: Interpreting the information in an oral text and rephrasing it in your own words.
- B2: Understanding detailed information in a documentary.
- B1:Followingdescriptions of products in a listening passage
- B2: Comparing and contrasting viewpoints on internet piracy.
- B2: Understanding a variety of concepts in an oral text.
- B1: Identifying and assimilating word-formation techniques.
- B2:Understandingoral information and using it in a discussion on internet piracy.
- B2:Identifyingmultiple speakers’ contrastive viewpoints, attitudes, tones, etc.
- Speaking
- B1: Using a variety of sources to locate information and generate ideas.
- B2: Identifying different viewpoints and attitudes in a discussion.
- B2: Carrying out an effective interview, asking questions and giving replies.
- B1: Asking questions and answering, observing the turn-taking conventions.
- B2: Developing an organized
Related fields of study:
Skills:
- Reading
- B2: Identifying the generic features of business news reports.
- C1: Applying word-formation techniques to the media context.
- B1: Scanning a text to locate specific terms.
- B1: Obtaining detailed information, ideas and opinions from a written text.
- B2: Integrating formulaic expressions into new contexts.
- C1: Grasping humor and irony in a text
- C1: Identifying register, style and level of formality in texts.
- Writing
- B2: Elaborating a clear and well-balanced written summary.
- B1: Using blending to generate compound words
- Listening
- B2: Understanding and processing spoken input used in the media
- B1: Comprehending essential information in a listening passage.
- C1: Applying critical awareness and analysis skills to different media.
- B1: Scanning a spoken text to locate specific vocabulary items.
- B1: Locating specific information in an oral text.
- Speaking
- B2: Delivering oral reports fluently.
- B1: Delivering an oral summary of the main ideas in a text.
- B2: Developing a clear argument and supporting it with details.
- B1: Expressing a personal preference for an object.
- B2: Creating an effective slogan on a given subject.
Related fields of study:
- Chemistry
- Environmental
- Sciences
- Biology
- Agricultural sciences
Skills:
- Reading
- B2: Anticipating the content of a text by reflecting on contextual clues.
- B2: Scanning through a text to identify main ideas and supporting details.
- Writing
- C1: Writing formal and expanded definitions of varios items and concepts
- B2: Developing a well-balanced outline for a questionnaire
- Listening
- B2: Using various strategies to infer the meaning of new words.
- B1: Locating specific information in a listening passage.
- Speaking
- B2: Performing an interview, asking adequate questions and giving coherent replies.
- B2: Using cohesive devices to structure speech into coherent discourse.
- B1: Applying adequate intonation patterns to question tags.
Related fields of study:
- Telecommunications
- Engineering
- Social studies
Skills:
- Reading
- B2: Identifying the target reader and writing purpose in journal and magazine articles.
- B2: Identifying the layout and structure of an article.
- C1: Identifying the structure of a text and pinpointing organizational devices.
- B2: Scanning through a text and locating main ideas.
- Writing
- B1: Identifying the fundamental genre features of e-mails.
- B2: Analyzing information and the conventions of netiquette on the internet
- C1: Applying adequate style and tone to different written texts.
- B1: Organizing essential information in relevant paragraphs
- B1: Using connectors to structure paragraphs.
- Listening
- B2: Identifying main discourse features of conference sessions.
- B2: Comprehending the main ideas of a text.
- B2: Taking notes on relevant points in an oral text and delivering questions.
- Speaking
- B1: Participating in a telephone conversation by delivering coherent questions and answers.
- B2: Reporting details of difficult situations and asking for assistance.
- B1: Delivering a message on an answer phone.
Related fields of study:
- Agricultural studies
- Biotechnology
- Environmental sciences
Skills:
- Reading
- B1: Activating previous knowledge on linguistic and semantic content of present and past tenses.
- B2: Obtaining detailed information, ideas and opinions from written input.
- B2: Applying techniques to insert main events into a chronology.
- Writing
- C1: Writing an argumentative text on genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
- Listening
- B2: Responding to spoken input by taking notes on relevant points.
- B2: Distinguishing main from secondary ideas and essential content from details.
- Speaking
- B2: Presenting your opinion for or against a particular point of view.
- B2: Developing a clear argument to express your agreement or disagreement.
- B2: Applying discourse strategies and vocabulary devices to give your opinion on a topic.
Related fields of study:
- Telecommunications engineering
- Industrial engineering
- Mechanics
- Materials science
- Chemical engineering
- Electronics
- Civil engineering
Skills:
- Reading
- B2: Skimming and scanning academic and scientific texts.
- B2: Revising comparative and superlative forms, parallel increase and solid, hyphenated or open forms of compound nouns.
- B2: Using on-line dictionaries to obtain information on phrasal verbs (false-friends, meaning, pronunciation,etc.).
- B2: Applying visual and textual information to identify irregular plurals and collocations.
- B2:Choosing the right heading and combining visual and textual information.
- B2:Identifyingthemeaning of academic false-friends in a text.
- Writing
- B2: Writing expository texts and descriptions.
- B2: Writing instructions on the use of devices to a non-specialised audience.
- B1: Using on-line bilingual and specialized dictionaries and thesaurus to obtain information.
- B1: Identifying the meaning of false-friends on academic issues.
- B1:Applying the right order of adjectives in your descriptions.
- B2: Generating physical and function descriptions, by describing applications and providing examples.
- Listening
- B2: Processing general and detailed information of an oral text.
- C1: Developing critical awareness to identify the viewpoint of a message.
- B2: Grasping the main ideas of an oral text and checking comprehension.
- Speaking
- B2: Producing an oral description of an item.
- B1: Using dictionaries to obtain the phonetic transcription of words and improve pronunciation.
Related fields of study:
- Economics
- English philology
- Translation
- Science and Technology
Skills:
- Reading
- B1: Obtaining detailed information, ideas and opinions from a text.
- B1: Identifying the topic sentences of paragraphs.
- B1: Scanning through texts, locating main ideas and relevant details.
- B2: Gathering and combining information from different texts.
- C1: Identifying various points of view in written texts.
- Writing
- B2: Generating a text making predictions and expressing ideas about the future.
- B2: Writing a coherent and well-structured for and against composition.
- C1: Providing different perspectives and points of view.
- B2: Formulating clear and coherent answers to factual questions.
- C1: Applying reflection strategies to generate personal viewpoints.
- Listening
- B2: Applying inference strategies to deduce words and ideas.
- B2: Grasping the main ideas of an oral text and checking comprehension.
- C1: Developing critical awareness to process relevant information.
- C1: Reflecting upon the intelligibility of several varieties of spoken English.
- B1: Understanding specific information of an oral text.
- Speaking
- B2: Generating oral texts making predictions on the future.
- B1: Grasping and applying different stress patterns to your own oral production.
- B2: Developing a clear argument to express your opinion.
Related fields of study:
- English literature
- Science in general
Skills:
- Reading
- B1: Scanning through a text to identify specific vocabulary items and contextual details
- B1: Locating detailed information in a science fiction text.
- B2: Identifying the structure of a text and signalling organizational devices.
- B2: Identifying main ideas in a science fiction article.
- C1: Gathering and combining visual, textual and audio information from various sources.
- Writing
- C1: Using writing strategies to make predictions.
- B1: Identifying and correcting grammar mistakes on predictions.
- B2: Applying writing techniques for summarizing, paraphrasing and quoting to avoid plagiarism in academic writing.
- C1: Writing an essay reporting on somebody else’s opinion.
- Listening
- B1: Understanding general and detailed information in an oral text.
- B2: Combining visual and audio information to understand ideas.
- B1: Identifying and assimilating the difference in pronunciation between similar words.
- B1: Searching on the internet to expand your knowledge on an oral text.
- Speaking
- B2: Reporting orally on information gathered from others.
- B2: Taking notes and delivering your own oral presentation.
- C1: Developing critical thinking by expressing your opinion on a topic.
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Internet Piracy
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Business & the Media
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Environmentalism
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Humans and Machines
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GMOs: Genetically Modified Organisms
Module 8
From Military Uses to Civilian Items
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Globalization & the English Speaking World
Module 10
Science Fiction or the Limits of Science in Fiction
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