Intendierte Lernergebnisse
The aim of the course is to develop your general proficiency in English through improving your knowledge of grammar and vocabulary. Course work will focus on essential grammar (relative clauses and other types, pronouns, adjectives and adverbs, adverbial clauses and conjunctions, prepositions) and on expanding your lexical range on a broad variety of general and advanced topics.
Lehrmethodik
lecture and practicestudent contributions on pertinent topics related to lexical development and grammarself-study (online Moodle exercises)presentations
Inhalt/e
expanding vocabulary (lexical range) on a wide variety of general topicsquantifiersrelative clauses and other types of clausespronouns, substitution and leaving out wordsadjectives and adverbsadverbial clauses and conjunctionsprepositionsorganizing information
Erwartete Vorkenntnisse
completion of Language Awareness 1expanding vocabulary (lexical range) on a broad variety of general topicsdictionary usecollocationstensesmodals and semi-modallinking verbs, passives, questionsverb complementationreportingnouns (agreement and compound nouns)articles, determiners and quantifiers
Curriculare Anmeldevoraussetzungen
Students in the BA program: Language Awareness 1Language Productive and Receptive SkillsEnglish for Academic PurposesPronunciation Students in the teacher training program:Placement TestLanguage Awareness 1 (Language 1)English for Academic Purposes (Writing 1)PronunciationLanguage Productive and Receptive Skills (Speaking 1)
Literatur
Students will need the following two books:Hewings, Martin. Advanced Grammar in Use (3rd edition) McCarthy, Michael and Felicity O’Dell. English Vocabulary in Use. Upper Intermediate (4th edition)