Winter Semester 2011/12
English Language Course C1 B03003C1
Course content:
Behind the glamour - personal assistants to film stars. Word building: prefixes with multiple meanings.
Success at an early age – has age got anything to do with being talented? The use of reflexive pronouns
Studying, working or taking a gap year? Infinitive or –ing form after verbs with the change of meaning. New verb-noun collocations with verbs to do & to get.
Practicing Writing: using reflexive pronouns for personalizing the language.
Ethics in everyday life and in business ventures. Position of adverbials
Ambient advertising – the future of maketing
TED lectures (Technology Entertainment Design)
Learning outcomes:
Course coordinators
Bibliography
a) basic references:
Gillie Cunningham and Jan Bell, Face2face, Cambridge University Press, 2009
Mark Ibbotson, Cambridge English for Engineering, Cambridge University Press, 2008
b) supplementary references:
Internet resources on English grammar and vocabulary
Articles from the press and Internet adapted by the lecturer
Grammar exercises written by the lecturer
Longman Language Activator, Pearson Longman, 2006
Martin Hewings, Advanced Grammar in Use, Cambridge University Press, 2005
Shirley Taylor, Model Business Letters, E-mails & Other Business Documents, Prentice Hall Financial Times,2004