SylabUZ
Course name | English as a foreign language |
Course ID | 09.0-WF-FizP-Eng-S17 |
Faculty | Faculty of Physics and Astronomy |
Field of study | Physics |
Education profile | academic |
Level of studies | First-cycle studies leading to Bachelor's degree |
Beginning semester | winter term 2019/2020 |
Semester | 4 |
ECTS credits to win | 2 |
Course type | obligatory |
Teaching language | english |
Author of syllabus |
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The class form | Hours per semester (full-time) | Hours per week (full-time) | Hours per semester (part-time) | Hours per week (part-time) | Form of assignment |
Laboratory | 30 | 2 | - | - | Credit with grade |
The course aims to enable students to improve speaking, reading and writing skills, as well as listening comprehension in English. It will help the students to develop their ability to apply language functions to effective communication in everyday life. The course also aims to develop ability to compare objects, people, phenomena, to express necessity, prohibition and orders. The course provides an opportunity to learn the skill of writing formal letters, improve listening and reading comprehension. It helps students to further develop conversational skills, and gives basic knowledge of giving a presentation in English. It introduces vocabulary to describe atoms and expressions used in the following branches of physics: thermodynamics and optics.
B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages specified by the Council of Europe.
During the course students will learn to:
compare people, objects (4 hours)
use modal verbs to express prohibition and orders (3 hours)
write formal letters (4 hours)
use verb forms – gerund, infinitive (3 hours)
make a longer dialogue using structures and vocabulary learned earlier in the course – comparison, modals to express prohibition, etc. (2 hours)
prepare and deliver a short presentation in English (4 hours)
understand longer and more difficult texts (2 hours)
develop listening comprehension of long conversations (2 hours)
master vocabulary of thermodynamics and optics (4 hours)
understand simple specialist texts discussing problems of thermodynamics and optics (2 hours)
The course focuses on communication activities in functional and situational context. It encourages students to speak with fluency and develop the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking by means of group and pair work, discussion, presentation, oral and written exercises.
Outcome description | Outcome symbols | Methods of verification | The class form |
– grade: a condition for receiving a credit are positive marks for tests, participating in class discussions, dialogues, delivering a presentation in English, getting information on different topics.
[1] C. Oxenden, V. Latham-Koenig, P. Seligson, New English File Student’s Book, Oxford University Press 2007.
[2] C. Oxenden, V. Latham-Koenig, P. Seligson, New English File Workbook, Oxford University Press 2007.
[1] FCE Use of English by V. Evans.
[2] Internet articles.
[3] L. Szkutnik, Materiały do czytania – Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne.
[4] J. Pasternak-Winiarska, English in Mathematics, Oficyna Wydawnicza Politechniki Warszawskiej, Warszawa 2006.
[5] S. Hawking, A Brief History of Time, The Universe in a Nutshell, Bantam Books 2001.
Modified by dr hab. Piotr Lubiński, prof. UZ (last modification: 19-02-2020 18:12)