LEVEL 6: C1 CEFR

AUDIENCE: This course is intended for learners who demonstrate proficient ability to use English independently. 

GOALS: The course aims at refining learners’ ability to understand and use language appropriate to register, topic, and audience almost effortlessly. 

OBJECTIVES: By participating in individual and group activities, students learn to analyze and critically engage with a wide variety of authentic, complex written and listening texts across disciplines and genres. They practice guessing meaning from context, identifying main/supporting ideas and points of view, and inferring logical relationships. Also, through a range of oral and written production tasks and assignments (e.g. essays, reports, summaries, presentations), students are trained to communicate strategically, with adequate attention to the organization of information, use of sources, register, and style. They review how to perceive and produce English sounds, practice rhythm, and recognize natural speech phenomena and intonation uses in controlled and semi-controlled pronunciation activities and speaking tasks (e.g. presentations, discussions). In addition, they work on mastering phraseology (e.g. phrasal verbs, idioms), word associations, and a broad range of vocabulary, including academic and technical language in their field. Similarly, students review and develop a better command of verb tenses, phrasal constructions, clause structures (e.g.  relative and ‘if’ clauses), and subject-verb agreement. 

ASSESSMENT: Students’ performance in this course is assessed through graded homework assignments, quizzes, unit tests, midterm and final level exams.  

Student Learning Outcomes

After the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Use varied and complex grammatical structures and vocabulary to talk about familiar and unfamiliar, concrete and abstract topics such as past experiences, food options, life style and environment.

2. Practice oral summaries, individual and group presentations on formal topics such as artificial intelligence and business planning to communicate strategically, with adequate attention to the organization of information, use of sources, register, and style.

3. Analyze authentic, complex written and listening texts across disciplines and genres; practice guessing meaning from context, identifying main/supporting ideas and points of view, and inferring logical relationships.

4. Write multiple-paragraph text types such as discipline-specific essays and data-based reports, summaries and movie reviews by synthesizing information from several sources.

5. Identify and practice phraseology (e.g. phrasal verbs, idioms), word associations, and a broad range of vocabulary, including academic and technical language.

6. Review and practice verb tenses, phrasal constructions, clause structures (e.g. relative and if clauses), and subject-verb agreement.

7. Review how to perceive and produce English sounds, practice rhythm, and identify natural speech phenomena and intonation uses in controlled and semi-controlled pronunciation activities and speaking tasks (e.g. presentations, discussions).