English (1st foreign language)

Code Cours
2223-ISTC-L3A-UE20-LV1A
Language of instruction
French, English
Teaching content
UE20
Training officer(s)
B.ROZPARA, A.AUDUREAU
Stakeholder(s)
A.AUDUREAU, B.ROZPARA, E.CATTIAUX
Level
Bachelor
Program year
Period

Présentation

Prerequisite
Communicating in various communication situations, drawing on strategies developed in class, including identifying the situation, choosing appropriate structures and using an adequate vocabulary range, (pour atteindre un niveau C1 à la fin de l'année).

- Expressing yourself fluently in writing and orally about general and professional topics, using accurate grammar and pertinent vocabulary.
- Understanding precisely a genuine message, whether audio visual or written.

This course develops the following professional skills:
- Understanding, analysing and interpreting one’s environment (general knowledge), including the global context.
- Developing your personality with an emphasis on values of integrity, open-mindedness, tolerance, and respect.
- Being able to lead a team and manage projects from start to finish, including in an international context.
Goal
Knowledge:
- Intermediate English grammar knowledge (tenses, modals, more complex structures).
- Professional English vocabulary.

Skills:
- Understanding relatively complex written and audio visual documents.
- Expressing yourself orally and in writing, naturally, fluently and efficiently.

Social skills:
- Understanding and recognising how important English is in your academic and professional life.
- Class attendance, motivation and seriousness; participation and curiosity.
Presentation
General and professional English topics, often interlinked, which make it possible to strengthen knowledge of vocabulary, culture and sentence structure:

- Current affairs, economic and political topics.
- Registers and their use in various communication situations.
- Aspects and use of English in the communication scope.
- The business world (recruitment, functions and duties, etc.).

- Reviewing intermediate grammar rules and expanding knowledge to complex rules (tenses, modals, etc.).
- Introduction to Anglo-Saxon literature (reading a novel).

Modalités

Organization
Type Amount of time Comment
Face to face
36,00
Independent work
Autoformation 36,00
Overall student workload 72,00
Evaluation
Control type Duration Amount Weighting
Continuous assessment
0,00 0 20,00
0,00 0 20,00
Final Exam
1,30 0 60,00
TOTAL 100,00

Ressources

Bibliography
How starbucks saved my life - M. Gill

How starbucks saved my life

Internet resources
BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news
The Times
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/
The Economist
https://www.economist.com/
Moodle
Moodle