English oral skills for EFL teachers

Timetable

Venue: Collegium Heliodori Święcicki

Duration of the course:

1st group: Monday at 13.15
Room: Aula (Collegium Heliodori Święcicki)
Dates: 
03. 03. 2025 (90 min)
10. 03. 2025 (90 min)
17. 03. 2025 (90 min)
24. 03. 2025 (90 min)
31. 03. 2025 (90 min)
07. 04. 2025 (90 min)
14. 04. 2025 (90 min)
28. 04. 2025 (45 min)

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 and self-prepared materials