Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: English Language Upper Intermediate (17.EJ04Z)

Native organizations units: No data

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Graphic Engineering and Design (Godina: 2, Winter)
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Mechanization and Construction Engineering (Godina: 2, Winter)

General information:

Category	Academic-general educative
Scientific or art field	Anglistika i jezik struke
Interdisciplinary	No
ECTS	2

Educational goal:

Further improvement of language skills. Developing strategies for better understanding of the written text and skills of written expression. Recognition and use of the formal and informal style of communication, as well as other forms of written expression. Developing presentation skills, expressing agreement and disagreement. Expanding vocabulary and adopting structures with gerunds and infinitives and indirect speech.

Educational outcome:

Students are able to read more complex texts using helpful reading strategies. They are able to express themselves in the written form using adequate style. They are able to orally present their ideas and express their agreement or disagreement with someone else’s ideas with some extent of certainty.

Course content:

Strategies for understanding texts in the foreign language. The use of text organizer. The use of the formal and informal style and the choice of adequate register. Expanding the vocabulary related to the topics such as education, work, new technologies and discoveries, life in the future etc. Indirect speech. The use of gerund and infinitive

Teaching methods:

The emphasis is placed on the student activities during class, their interactions with the teacher and between themselves. The communicative method is used in the foreign language lectures.

Literature:

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Soars, L., Soars, J.	New Headway English Course	2004	Oxford University Press, Oxford	English
Eastwood, J.	Oxford Practice Grammar - Intermediate	2006	Oxford University Press, Oxford	English
Vince, M., Emmerson, P.	Intermediate Language Practice	2003	Macmillan, London	English
Grupa autora	Oxford English - Serbian Student Dictionary	2006	Oxford University Press, Oxford	English