• Esmonde Chloe

• Esmonde Chloe

B2 Improving Academic English is a highly challenging workshop-style course, covering typical situations in which participants will need to use English in academic contexts.

Target audience

This course is open to all participants from across the university with a B2 (Upper-Intermediate) level of English. This course can be taken alone or consecutively with the B2 Improving Academic English: Spring Semester.

Course contents and teaching method

The main areas of focus of this course includes delivering presentations, participating in group discussions and improving essay writing skills. Regular interaction with interesting and engaging reading and listening texts will provide the ideal platform in which to develop your skills in terms of fluency, accuracy, grammar and vocabulary. 

Workload and evaluation 

There is no final exam for this course. Instead, students will be asked to complete weekly homework tasks (approx. 1 hour) which will reinforce what is learnt in class. 

Attendance and regular participation in the course is compulsory. Students must attend 80% of the classes to pass the course. 

Materials

Students will be provided with materials in class. 

By the end of this course, students should be able to: 

• express ideas more clearly and accurately, and in an appropriate academic style, 
• speak more fluently, accurately and with clearer, more intelligible pronunciation, 
• better understand natural spoken English in academic, business and everyday contexts, 
• connect ideas using a greater range of linking words and phrases, 
• use a greater range of academic vocabulary and grammatical structures, 
• speak with improved accuracy, especially with present and past verb tenses, 
• plan and deliver professional presentations to an audience, 
• participate more actively in and with greater confidence in group discussions, 
• respond effectively and appropriately to feedback from peers and the lecturer. 

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