Face-to-face , first and second term, 30 hours of theory.

The course is conducted in English.

LANG1120A - English (part 1) [1 Q. • 15 Th. • Pond. : 40] Tanja Temmerman
LANG1120B - English (part 2) [2 Q. • 15 Th. • Pond. : 60] Tanja Temmerman

At the end of the course, students should have acquired, through the various class exercises, strategic skills enabling them to make good use of their knowledge and know-how in comprehension activities (listening and reading) and, to a lesser degree, in oral and written expression.

In particular, they should be able, through the use of reading and listening comprehension techniques on the one hand, and on notes taken during the course on the other hand, to reformulate in a structured manner the contents of written and audio documents covered during the course as well as other similar texts.

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The course includes various reading or listening exercises as well as note-taking exercises. These exercises should enable students to understand historical or philosophical texts in an autonomous manner with a dictionary. The course also includes a programme of grammar review.

Working papers illustrating the various techniques proposed.
The class activities are conducted in an interactive manner and thus imply active student participation. The students are also expected to follow the on-line learning programme (exercises of grammar review and vocabulary) according to the schedule included in the course notes.

Three grammar tests will be organised during the year, and each can result in an exemption on the final exam for that test's material provided the student achieves a high enough score.

The examination of end of the year will consist of students' summarising a documentary on a historical or philosophical subject and a reading comprehension exercise.

See for example

Elder, J. Exercise your College Reading Skills. Developing More Powerful Comprehension, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2007.
Grellet, F. Developing Reading Skills. A Practical Guide to Reading Comprehension Exercises. C.U.P., 1981.
Huntley, H. Essential Academic Vocabulary. Mastering the Complete Academic Word list. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Zukowsky/Faust, J., Johnston, S., Templin, E. Steps to Academic Reading. Third Edition. Thomson Heinle. 2002.

Class notes on the activities conducted during the course, the grammatical topics and the thematic vocabulary (available on: http://weblearning.be/moodle)