Duration
24h Pr, 48h E-Lrng
Number of credits
| Bachelor in bioengineering | 4 crédits |
Lecturer
Substitute(s)
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long, with partial in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course is taught in English.
Level 3 is a specialty English course focusing on speaking skills. We will use complex authentic source documents.
The studied topics are directly linked to the students' field of study. Here are some examples: explaining trends/graphs, increase of wild fires, climate agreements...
The second development trajectory 'Présenter en anglais un sujet complexe dans des termes adaptés au public visé' of the professional situation 4.3.4 ('Utiliser diverses méthodes de communication avec la communauté des bioingénieurs et la société au sens large') will be developed and assessed in class.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
By the end of the course, the student should have reached the B2+ level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages in reading and listening and the B2 for oral summariez and interaction.
Concretely, the student should be able to understand a talk both concrete and abstract topics, including more technical discussions, linked to bioengineering.
Concerning oral summaries, students can give clear, detailed descriptions and presentations on a wide range of subjects related to his/her field of interest, expanding and supporting ideas with subsidiary points and relevant examples.
He/she should give clear descriptions, express viewpoints and develop arguments by providing relevant information and arguments. To do so, he/she has acquired sufficient range of language to be able to give clear descriptions, express viewpoints and develop arguments without much conspicuous searching for words, using some complex sentence forms to do so.
The student should be able to synthetize and present information in the form of an oral summary and express his opinion linked to a pariticular topic.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The student has to have a B2 level (cf. CEFR) before starting the course.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Each topic includes many different activities, such as reading and listening comprehensions, oral summaries of complex study-related sources, oral interaction, and specialty vocabulary exercises. Students are also required to revise specific grammar points.
Students are required to take part in all the speaking activities of the course, including the coaching sessions with student assistants (compulsory).
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
The course will take place face-to-face, but also online and with coaching sessions given by the students-assistants.
Note that a 4-credit course equals 6h of work : 2h in class + 4h to work at home per week.
18h in-class (9 sessions*2) (S1) + 18h in-class (9 sessions*2) (S2) =36h
S1: 36h at home (9 sessions*4h) + 18h at home (3 sessions *6h) =54h
S2: 36h at home (9 sessions*4h) + 18h at home (3 sessions*6h) =54h
Recommended or required readings
We strongly recommend that Level 3 students get the following reference book:
Murphy, R. (2012). English Grammar in Use (fourth edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire )
Continuous assessment
Out-of-session test(s)
Additional information:
Continuous assessment (20%)
- Tests (grammar, vocabulary, reading, listening) on E-Campus + pronunciation tests (10%)
- Presentations done throughout the year (10%) - 2 all in all
Certifying evaluation
The written and oral exams will take place in June.
1) The written exam will cover: reading, listening, vocab (S1+S2) and grammar (S1+S2) : 20%
2) The oral exam: 60%
What will be also be calculated in the final grade
3) is the work done throughout the year, i.e. tests : 10%
4) and presentations : 10%
In September:
1) The written exam: reading, listening, vocab (S1+S2) and grammar (S1+S2) : 35%
2) The oral exam: 65%
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
A precise description on the course and evaluation methods will be given during session 1.
Master students who prioritize other teaching activities will have to postpone the exam to the following session/year. In other words, the Master students whose Bachelor program includes this English course should give it priority over their Master courses.
For practical reasons and to ensure fairness, the exam will not be postponed or organized in any other form. If you cannot attend the exam on the scheduled moments/dates for the written or oral exams, it will be postponed until the session/year after.
Only students that are abroad/on an erasmus exchange on the date of the written exam, will be allowed to take the oral exam. As a result, the percentage of the written will be transferred to the oral itself (>80% of the final grade). Students will nevertheless still have to take the online tests on ecampus during the year. Students must warn the teacher about their erasmus exchange by 30th October.
Exemptions, even partial, will not be granted.
The student who failed the oral exam, for instance, but succeeded the written exam will automatically have to take both parts again in August - the written AND the oral.
In case of unjustified absence to one part or the entire exam (the written and/or the oral part), the student will be marked absent for the final grade.
Students signing one part of the exam (oral or written) will be given a P.
Contacts
Fiona Thewissen
English Teachers' Office
081/62 24 46
fthewissen@uliege.be