English oral skills for EFL teachers

Timetable

Duration of the course: 14.10.2024-09.12.2024
Venue: Collegium Heliodori Święcicki, room 240

Class 1: 14.10.2024 (90-minute class)
Class 2: 21.10 2024 (90-minute class)
Class 3: 28.10.2024 (90-minute class)
Class 4: 04.11.2024 (90-minute class)
Class 5: 18.11.2024 (90-minute class)
Class 6: 25.11.2024 (90-minute class)
Class 7: 02.12.2024 (90-minute class)
Class 8: 09.12.2024 (45-minute class)

Module aim (aims)

This course is aimed at boosting students’ / prospective teachers' oral skills in English (level C1). Its objectives are going to be accomplished through a variety of speaking activities as well as vocabulary and reading assignments. The course is going to end in a pronunciation workshop whose aim is to familiarize students with the essentials of correct pronunciation.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Level of English: B2(+) (according to CEFR)
Note: This course requires a significant amount of students' individual work outside class

Syllabus

Class 1:            Learning languages      

Class 2:            Work & careers (1)       

Class 3:            Work & careers (2)

Class 4:            Giving presentations

Class 5:            Success and failure

Class 6:            Education

Class 7:            Polish your English pronunciation

Credit requirements: an oral assignment (recording), vocabulary quizzes

Reading list

Bygrave, Jonathan, Jeremy Day, Lindsay Warwick & Damian Williams. (2021). Roadmap. (C1-C2) Pearson.

Edwards, Lynda, Frances Eales & Steve Oakes. (2023). Speakout. (3rd edition, C1-C2) Pearson.

Latham-Koenig, Christina, Clive Oxenden & Jerry Lambert. (2015). English file. (upper-intermediate & advanced) Cambridge University Press. 

McCarthy, Michael & Felicity O’Dell. (2017). English Vocabulary in Use. Advanced Book with Answers. Vocabulary Reference and Practice. Cambridge University Press. 

Authentic & self-prepared materials