Curricuclum
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Course name
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Course mapping
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Learning outcome
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Volume
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Contents
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Topics and means
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Structure
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Materials
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Approval
Elementary English
Course name
Course mapping by ISCED97
222 foreign language
Learning outcome
Having passed the course a student is able to:
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formulate qestions and give answers for simple topics, such as family, free time, weather
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able to use tenses: present simple, present continuous, past simple and present perfect
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able to understand basic questions and speach
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has a vacabulary large enough to communicate basic needs
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writes in simple sentences
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able to perform most basic functions
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buying food, reading the time, ordering meals, asking for directions
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Course volume
The course is scheduled for one academic year from September till May:
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classes take place on a weekly basis twice a week
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each class lasts for 2 academic hours
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140 academic hours - volume of course class work
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140 academic hours - volume of individual homework
Total time a student commits to course is of 280 academic hours during one academical year.
Course content and means
Course covers following topics:
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daily routines
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jobs
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family
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free time
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weather
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likes/dislikes
Following means of education are used:
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authentic materials are used for various situations
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listening to audio materials
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watching video materials with real-life situations
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role playing games
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grammatical excersises
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writing short stories
Every lesson includes different types of education modes with aims to develop all four skills simultaneously: reading, writing, speaking and listening
Course is organized into 5 modules:
Module 1
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topics: meeting and greeting people, countries, nationalities, describing people, telling the time, daily routines/jobs, family, free time, weather, likes/dislikes
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grammar structures: the verb BE, possesive adjectives, basic numbers, present simple tense, adverbs of frequency, the structures: like, do not like, hate, love + Ving
Module 2
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topics: abilities, basic social expressions, ordering meals, home, talk about the past, holidays
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grammar: can/can't, past simple forms of regular verbs, past form of the verb BE, past simple forms of regular verbs, past simple forms of common irregular verbs, the structures: there is / there are
Module 3
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topics: holiday activities, location, how to ask for directions, key vocabulary for body parts,
transport, at a restauraunt, question words -
grammar: present continuous tense, prepositions of location, countable and uncountable nouns, question words
Module 4
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topics: at a supermarket, telling a story, buying clothes, people from different countries, cultural habits
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grammar: forming quetions with how much and how many, answering with a quantifiers,
past simple tense, the structure going to + infinitive, comparative form of adjectives, the superlative form of adjectives
Module 5
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topics: at the cinema, travelling, devices and the internet, about money, the future, visiting the doctor, achievements
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grammar: infinitive for expressing purpose, postive and negative imperative forms, the structure will won't + infinitive for making future predictions, the present perfect of the verb be, basic present verbs, the present perfect simple tense
Course structure
Teaching book sets:
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Speakout elementary, Jenny Parsons by Pearson Longman
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Face2Face elementary, Chris Redston by Cambridge University Press
For corporate clients specific materials can be used upon agreement.
Study materials
Current course curriculum approved on 2016-AUG-15