English 2

Duration

80h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Chloé L'Honneux, Xuan Giang Nguyen, Jonathan Solheid, Pauline Warroquiers

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

All year long, with partial in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Course-related content :

• Various subjects in the form of "files", including vocabulary and different types of exercises in order to make the students familiar with the themes covered.
• Business vocabulary (upper-intermediate level) as well as lists of general thematic vocabulary (available on Lol@).
• Grammar revisions.
• Listening comprehensions based on radio podcasts, video clips, conferences...
• Oral skills and "soft" skills: presenting a company or a news topic, holding a conversation and a debate, giving one's opinion, participating in a role-play, negociating, convincing,...

• Seminar given by a guest speaker
• Field trip (if proper funding available)
• Visit of a company

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

This course's purpose is to give students the proper resources to reach the B2 European level of language proficiency. In practice:

• oral abilities: the student will be able to express themselves fluently on business and/or economic topics as well as on more general topics thanks to the acquisition of common vocabulary (through the study of the lists of of general vocabulary; see "compulsory readings" hereunder)
• writing skills
• reading competences: the student will have to be able to understand an unseen text and summarize it, rephrase its information, comment it, and answer questions about its content
• listening competences: the student will have to be able to understand the information given in an unknown audio extract, recognize its main elements, and render the information as cleary as possible in their own words

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Two conditions must be met to access this course :

1) Obtaining the credits allocated to the course of English Level 1 (LANG1951).

2) Obtaining at least 40 credits from the 1st block (Bachelor programme in Economic and Management Sciences)

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Various activities (among others):

• Diverse reading and exercise files based on business-related topics.
• Vocabulary exercises.
• Listening comprehensions.
• Reading comprehensions.
• Language revisions.
• Group presentations in class.
• Business simulations.
• Rephrasing.
• Preparation of a press file.
• Role-play.
• Discussions (in pairs or in groups).
• Debates.
• ...

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face course


Further information:

Essentially in class. However, students will also be given different kinds of homework, such as:

• personal preparation and study of vocabulary ;
• exercises (texts, video clips, audio extracts, ...) to do or finish at home ;
• preparation for in-class presentations ;
• personal preparation of different documents (seen during the lessons or not) that are deemed as part of the stuff to study for the exams.

Course materials and recommended or required readings

Platform(s) used for course materials:
- LOL@


Further information:

Documents will be provided gradually on Lol@ (course code: LANG1953-1). However, we do not provide keys to in-class exercises, and students will have to complete the file-related lists of vocabulary on their own; it is therefore highly desirable to come to class in order to take some personal notes.

Compulsory resources:

• In-class files 
• Lists of general thematic vocabulary

• MURPHY R., English Grammar in Use, 5th edition (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2004).
• Dictionary ROBERT & COLLINS
• "Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English" or "The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English"
• "The Oxford Dictionary of Business English for Learners of English", Oxford University 

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam AND oral exam

Out-of-session test(s)


Further information:

FIRST SESSION

June's final mark rests on the whole year's workload, that is divided as follows:

1. Written skills :

a. In-class tests on general thematic vocabulary; there will be 4 tests organised during the year (2 per term).

b. January's exam including:

• a reading comprehension
• vocabulary exercises on the units seen in class
• questions about the content of the units seen in class
• a piece of writing (opinion note/open questions/...)

• a listening comprehension
• vocabulary exercises about the units seen in class
• questions about the content of the units seen in class
• a piece of writing (opinion note/open questions/...)

• presentations in pairs about an interest common to both students (October)
• "one-on-one" or face-to-face oral assessment with the teacher based on a press file, but also on questions about the units seen in class (January)
• case study in groups (April)
• presentation of a company in groups (May)

• January's written exam = 20%
• June's written exam = 20%
• In-class tests = 10%

• presentations in pairs = 5%
• "one-on-one" = 20%
• case study in groups = 15%
• presentation of a company = 10%

• writing (opinion paper/open questions/...)
• questions on the content of the year's units
• vocabulary exercises on the year's units
• reading comprehension
• listening comprehension

• a press file
• questions on units seen in class
• a case study

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

IMPORTANT 

We give repeating students NO EXEMPTIONS.

Contacts

- Chloé L'HONNEUX : clhonneux@uliege.be

- Xuan Giang NGUYEN: xg.nguyen@uliege.be

- Jonathan SOLHEID: jonathan.solheid@uliege.be

- Pauline WARROQUIERS: pwarroquiers@uliege.be



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