Course contents and teaching method
This fun workshop-style course aims to make your speech and writing clearer, more concise, more compelling, and more appropriate to given situations. It is a highly interactive in-person programme that includes: using persuasive techniques in presentations, telling anecdotes, hedging an opinion and expressing reservations, effectively using idioms and collocations, using appropriate register... and much more!

Workload and evaluation
Regular attendance and active participation is required to pass this course, as is the successful completion of all 4 assignments (there is no final exam).

1. Preparation & delivery of a 5min mini-presentation
2. Written task based on IELTS Academic Writing Part 1 
3. Preparation & participation in a panel discussion 
4. Written task based on IELTS Academic Writing Part 2

Materials
Handouts are provided and all the course materials are available on Moodle. 

Objectives

By the end of this course, participants have developed their ability to:

• produce clear, smoothly flowing, complex texts in an appropriate and effective style and a logical structure 
• set out multiple perspectives on complex academic or professional topics, clearly distinguishing their own ideas and opinions from those in the sources
• produce idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms with awareness of connotative levels of meaning; convey finer shades of meaning precisely by using, with reasonable accuracy, a wide range of modification devices
• understand any interlocutor, even on abstract and complex topics of a specialist nature beyond their own field, given an opportunity to adjust to a less familiar variety
• hold their own in formal discussion of complex issues and articulate persuasive arguments

Target audience

This course is for participants whose level corresponds to level C1 or C2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Please only register if your level corresponds to the course. Participants of our partner institutions and Unifr employees can contact us to take a placement test if they are unsure of their level. Unifr students are automatically guided to the placement test when registering for a course on MyUnifr.

Prerequisites

The General Conditions for Participation in Language Courses apply. 

Responsibles and speakers

Responsibles

• Hart Andrew

Dates and locations

Period	Location
18.09.2025 from 13:15 to 15:00	MIS 10 01.04
25.09.2025 from 13:15 to 15:00	MIS 10 01.04
02.10.2025 from 13:15 to 15:00	MIS 10 01.04
09.10.2025 from 13:15 to 15:00	MIS 10 01.04
16.10.2025 from 13:15 to 15:00	MIS 10 01.04
23.10.2025 from 13:15 to 15:00	MIS 10 01.04
30.10.2025 from 13:15 to 15:00	MIS 10 01.04
06.11.2025 from 13:15 to 15:00	MIS 10 01.04
13.11.2025 from 13:15 to 15:00	MIS 10 01.04
20.11.2025 from 13:15 to 15:00	MIS 10 01.04
27.11.2025 from 13:15 to 15:00	MIS 10 01.04
04.12.2025 from 13:15 to 15:00	MIS 10 01.04
11.12.2025 from 13:15 to 15:00	MIS 10 01.04
18.12.2025 from 13:15 to 15:00	MIS 10 01.04