COURSE DESCRIPTION
Advanced English Proficiency is a four-skill integration of listening, reading, writing and speaking designed
to help learners of English who plan to take the IELTS exam to demonstrate that
they have the required ability to communicate effectively in English, either at
work or at university locally and internationally. It is ideal for learners who
are aiming for band score 5.5 or higher on the IELTS test (CEF level B2 and
above).
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Develop the students’ English Reading proficiency to reach
IELTS 5.5 (CEF B2 level).
LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of the course, the students will be able to get:
1. Knowledge
- Identify announcements and messages on concrete and abstract
topics spoken in standard language at normal speed.
- Recognise most radio documentaries and most other recorded
or broadcast audio material delivered in standard language
- Identify the speaker’s mood, tone, etc.
- Identify most TV news and current affairs programmes such as
documentaries, live interviews, talk shows, plays and the majority of films in
standard language.
- Memorise 300 academic IELTS vocabulary.
- Identify a text for the main idea by skimming and specific
information by scanning.
- Identify the meaning of new or unknown words in context and
increase vocabulary through variety of strategies effectively.
- Identify parts of speech and their functions in a text.
- Identify attitude and point of view in fiction.
2. Comprehension
- Explain the 200 academic words (13 words a week).
- Interpret context in conversation.
- Select the words or phrases to fill the forms correctly.
- Explain key words.
- Classify the gist and key words during listening note-taking.
- Follow the essentials of lectures, talks and reports and
other forms of presentation which use complex ideas and language
- Interpret texts using background knowledge.
- Interpret graphically presented data (maps, charts, graphs,
tables).
- Interpret and responds to written information.
- Recognise the importance to cite sources and avoid
plagiarism.
- Discuss articles and reports concerned with contemporary
problems in which the writers adopt particular stances or viewpoints.
3. Application
- Apply the 200 words into academic reading and writing
context.
- Use appropriate language functions in formal and informal
contexts.
- Paraphrase information from a spoken text.
- Use word stress to convey meaning in an utterance
- Classify consonant/vowel sounds, sound patterns, stressed
and unstressed syllables specified in the academic listening and speaking
course books.
- Show the main ideas of complex speech on both concrete and
abstract topics delivered in a standard language including technical discussions
in their field of specialisation.
- Demonstrate acquisition of both general and level specific
vocabulary through a range of strategies.
- Transfer relevant information from a text to a table.
- Read texts broadly relevant to the student’s area of study (minimum
3 pages; minimum 900 words per text) and respond to questions that require
analytical skills, e.g. prediction, deduction, inference
- Apply their understandings of expository materials by
getting the main ideas through paraphrasing effectively.
- Uses a sufficient range of vocabulary to write
appropriately.
4. Analysis
- Connect the 200 words into reading and writing.
- Distinguish key words, phrases, sentences and texts in the
academic listening and speaking context.
- Compare information, events and activities.
- Debate in the academic speaking context.
- Distinguish between intonation in questions and statements
- Distinguish between short and long vowels specified in the
syllables.
- Distinguish between main ideas and supporting details.
- Analyse relationships within and between sentences to
understand different text structures
- Distinguish between facts and opinions.
5. Synthesis
- Construct the 200 words into academic writing.
- Collect and construct report of information, events and
activities through academic listening and speaking context.
- Create notes from a text.
- Write and transfers specific information using standard
formats.
- Write to communicate information for a variety of purposes.
- Read and write various kinds of words, phrases, sentences,
paragraphs and essays, including comparison-contrast, persuasive, critical
review, reflective, interpretive, and research based essays.
- Write all parts of the task with relevant, extended and well
supported ideas.
- Synthesise information and arguments from a number of
sources.
- Construct a chain of reasoned argument and can speculate
about causes, consequences and hypothetical situations.
6. Evaluation
- Choose the 200 words to write a report and an essay.
- Evaluate report of information, events and activities
through academic listening and speaking context.
- Assess information, events and activities.
- Argue from non-academic to various academic context.
- Evaluate the information, solve problems, and make
inferences and decisions accurately.
- Summarize short and long texts.
- Assess their own writing and other writing.
Duration of the course: 45 hours
Study Time: Contact us to arrange your class .
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