Foreign language (English) MAT1108d

Course content:
1. Universities, types of degrees, life on a campus etc.
2. Ways of speaking, people’s relationships etc.
3. Colloquial language, omitting parts of sentences in everyday speech.
4. Sayings and proverbs.
5. Human mind and its capabilities, creativity, etc.
6. A description of a place, tourist board websites etc.
7. Specialist content and vocabulary, depending on the type of course.

Writing:
1. Accurate writing – spelling: homophones and apostrophes.
2. Accurate writing – connecting words.
3. Short task – a description of a place for a website.

Grammar:
1. Past and present tenses – the use of Simple Past and Present Perfect in specific situations.
2. Cleft sentences with “what” and “it.”
3. Relative clauses with prepositions.
4. Common adverbial phrases.
5. Participle clauses.
6. Adjective word order.

Learning outcomes:Further work on language skills, working towrads C1 level.