Advanced English (business)(1)

Aims

Advanced English, a compulsory course for English majors at tertiary stage, is aimed at training students’ integrated language skills, especially listening, reading, writing and communication. While paying great attention to basic language knowledge, the course focuses on upgrading students’ integrated language proficiency through various and challenging exercises including listening, vocabulary study, reading comprehension, structure analysis, translating, speaking and writing.

Learning Outcomes

1.Reading at normal speed

a)Grasp the main idea of the passage

b)Able to complete comprehension exercises

2.Developing the ability of oral output

a) Able to express theoretically, logically, clearly and correctly.

b)Develop the presentation and present it to the audience

3.Identifying general and specific ideas while listening

a)Blank-filling and multiple choices

b)Questions and answers

4.Understanding topic-centered reading passage

a)Paraphrase the text

b)Translation and discourse analysis

c)Vocabulary, collocation and word formation

5.Working in groups

a)Communicating in a team

b)Effective communication skills

Teaching and Learning

Lecture and presentations by the lecturer will be integrated with students centered in-class activities. The major classroom activities include discussion, presentation and speech. The homework mainly includes language drills, writing, translation, etc.

Assessment

Basic Reading List

1.Lu Xin, Chen Wei, Modern Business English(Book 5), 2011, China Renmin University Press

2.Zhang Hanxi, 1995, Advanced English. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press

3.John Sinclair, 2011, Collins Cobuild English Grammar(3rdEdition), Collins