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FaVU-1UPPV-ZAcad. year: 2026/2027
The course is a follow-up (not obligatory) of English B1 Higher. The course emphasises the development of argumentation skills. Students will reflect the homen reading and listening home assigment (chapters, segment) both in a written and an oral form (group discussions). Apart from discussing homework assignments, students will be presented audiovisual and/or reading materieal in classes (films, lectures, debates, TED talks, etc.). Every second class, students will be given an reading and writing assignment which they will either submit via MS Teams or in the form of an in-class quiz.
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Prior B1 or placement test.
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Assessment consists of a non-letter grade and a letter grade.The workload during the semester will constist of one presentation, a reading of a novel (divided into 2-week long segments od 50 pages each), a written and spoken online, real-time reflection of the assigned segment every second week, and two short (up to 450 word-long) essays as homework. In order to obtain the non-letter grade, students have to submit all assignments during the semester. For the final, letter grade, students have to write a final essay (in real time, online), which will reflect the assigned reading. (Min. 50% to pass)Students who will not have handed in the written assignments (even though they passed the final test) will not be assessed. Students are entitled for one regular and two resit exam dates. Students must actively participate in 75% of the classes, including their online form.
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Continuous vocabulary building, improving of writing, speaking, listening, and reading skills, improving the academic reading skills, preparation for the final general test on the B2 level at the end of the semester. Students will be improving their writing skills (essays, project proposals, reviews, artists statement, press release, etc) and their reading skills (both fiction and non-fiction). They will be improving their analytical thinking and the skills to reflect their thoughts both in spoken and written form.
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