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Modern English III

Class at Faculty of Education |
OB2301017

Syllabus

UNIT 7 - Values part A: Home matters part B: Seeing the world

Language input

·         easily confused words

·         home and family idiomatic expressions

·         cleft sentences / emphasis

·         punctuation

Language input

·         TRAVEL vocabulary

·         past tenses with hypothetical meaning

·         wish clauses

Vince self-study

·         G14: Emphasis

·         WP7: expressions with BY, DO, HAVE, idioms with body parts, verbs of seeing

Vince self-study

·         G9: Unreal time and subjunctives

·         V2: travel and movement

·         V4: places

UNIT 8 - A Rich Life part A: Mixing business and pleasure part B: A means to an end?

Language input

·         BUSINESS collocations + fixed phrases

·         compounds and prepositions

·         inversion

·         fronting

Language input

·         spending, investing and giving

·         comparatives and superlatives

·         other ways of comparison

Vince self-study

·         G13: Inversion

·         V7: work  

UNIT 9 - The World of Science part A: Personal challenges part B: Brain power

Language input

·         SPACE collocations

·         ways of seeing

·         idioms with like

·         reported speech

Language input

·         the mind vocabulary

·         dependent prepositions

·         prepositions + gerund

Vince self-study

·         G16: reported speech

·         V16: Technology

Vince self-study

·         G21: verbs + prepositions

·         G22: prepositions  

Annotation

The aim of the course is to develop the four basic language skills further from the B2+ to C1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. This is the third stage of a six-semester course.

The teaching is based on systematic work with a course-book. There is special emphasis on accuracy, fluency, clarity and complexity of expression.