IELTS ACADEMIC I - PREP SEMINAR (International English Language Testing System) - HV3624

• Title: IELTS ACADEMIC I - PREP SEMINAR (International English Language Testing System)
• Guaranteed by: Department of Foreign Languages (22-KJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Law
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, colloquium [HT]
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: cancelled
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: PhDr. Martin Starý
• Class: cizí jazyky pro právníky
• Classification: Law > Foreign Languages for Lawyers

Annotation

IELTS, the International English Language Testing System, is designed to assess the language ability of people who want to study or work where English is the language of communication. IELTS is recognized and accepted by over 11,000 organisations worldwide, including universities, employers, professional bodies, immigration authorities and other government agencies. Over 6 million IELTS tests were taken in 2021. There are two IELTS formats: academic and general. Our seminar will focus on IELTS ACADEMIC, shaped out for students applying for higher education or professional registration in an English speaking environment. It reflects the features of academic language and assesses whether you are ready to begin studying or any other kind of academic training.

IELTS is designed to assess English language skills across a wide range of levels. There is no such thing as a pass or fall in IELTS. Results are reported as the so-called band scores on a scale from 1 (the lowest-non user) to 9 (the highest-expert user). The goal of IELTS seminar is to provide students with the appropriate language skills to be confident enough to pass the IELTS at the level they actually are - full year course nonetheless aims to prepare students to reach IELTS bands above 6.5. IELTS Seminar is offered not just for the Law School students but for any Charles University student enrolled on a full-time basis. IELTS I should be followed in the spring term with IELTS ACADEMIC II - TEST SEMINAR. Seminars will be led by PhDr. Martin Stary, and Charles Bird, LL.M.

Course requirement for IELTS Academic I is at least B1(CEFR)/Intermediate-PET(Merit-Distinction)/FCE Cambridge level of English. Working language of the course will range from B2/Upper-intermediate-FCE to C1/Advanced-CAE. Applicants are suppossed to specify their English language level in their registration.

Last update: Starý Martin, PhDr. (21.09.2022)

Course completion requirements

Podíl garanta na výuce činí 50%

 

Last update: Starý Martin, PhDr. (21.09.2022)

Literature

Obligatory:

• Sam McCarter. Ready for IELTS Coursebook. Macmillan, London. 2010, 2016. 978-0-2307-3215-5.

Last update: Starý Martin, PhDr. (21.09.2022)

Requirements to the exam

Předmět IELTS ACADEMIC I (kód HV3624) je zakončen kolokviem.

Za úspěšné absolvování předmětu student získává 4 kredity.

Due to Covid-19 students who will have no opportunity to physically attend the seminar will be given supplementary tasks.

For further information please see section Syllabus.

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KOLOKVIUM - REQUIREMENTS

1) Attendance: each student must attend at least 8 out of 10-11 classes.
2) Active participation assessed by instructors.
3) Completion of 2 writing tasks in due time (60% required on each task).

Last update: Starý Martin, PhDr. (21.09.2022)

Syllabus

With respect to the measures imposed, the instruction in the course will proceed in individual seminar groups as follows:

• Teachers can be reached by email. Students will be contacted via their email as it is shown in SIS.
• Teachers upload their material above the scope of obligatory textbook into Moodle. Please use Law School Moodle.

Seminars 1-3

Topics: Global Problems and Opportunities / The Future
LISTENING
Listening for the information. Identifying various sources of information - emails, numbers, addresses, salaries, flt #, processes, maps, classifications, identification, etc. Predidictions, looking for the key words. Distractors, qualifiers, etc.

Seminars 4-6

Topics: Work and Training / (Geography)
READING
Heading for paragprahs, getting the opinions, aggregating the information, topics, survey, quick review; scaninnng and skimming (Test timing), detailing/inferring, etc.

Seminars 7-9

Topics: What is Beauty? / Is It Art?
WRITING
Proper usage of linkers - process and sequencing; structuring an essay - topic sentence, paragraphing, conclusions. Cohesives, Adjuncts. Themes commonly include education, health, crime, social issues, environment, globalization, etc.

Seminars 10-11

Topics: Psychology and Sociology / Family / Travelling around the World (as appropriate)
SPEAKING
Being confident to a social chit-chat communication; providing an extended talk about hobbies, leisure, family, etc.; participating in a discussion concerning abstratc issues, e.g. Space, Literature, Advertising, Music, People, Business, Movies, Health, Work, Education, Food, Sport, Technology, etc.

Moodle accessible on Law School web page.
• If there is no other option but online seminars, they will be held at times when the contact classes were scheduled. The teachers will inform students on online classes and the platform to be used.

If it is necessary to use distance assessment of the course, it will be available to all students registered in the course and it will take the form of continuous assessment consisting of the following assignments:
• Completion of exercises assigned in due time. These will be based on individual units of the textbook.
• Completion of 2 writing tasks in due time.

The assignments will be graded “excellent”, “very good”, “satisfactory”, or “fail”.
The marks will then be averaged to give the final mark for students’ reference and, most importantly, to let students know if they passed (“splněno”) or failed (“nesplněno”) the course.

 

Last update: Starý Martin, PhDr. (21.09.2022)

Learning resources

Sarah Emsden-Bonfanti, Ready for IELTS Workbook. Macmillan, 2010

Michael Vince/Amanda French, IELTS Language Practice, Macmillan, 2011

Louise Hashemi / Barbara Thomas, IELTS Trainer, Cambridge University Press, 2015

Diana Hopkins / Pauline Cullen, Grammar for IELTS, Cambridge University Press, 2007

Rawdon Wyat, Check Your Vocabulary for IELTS, Macmillan, 2014

British Council/IDP IELTS Australia/University of Cambridge, Official IELTS Practice Materials, 2015, 2018

University of Cambridge – ESOL, Speaking Test Preparation Pack for IELTS. 2010

Vanessa Jakeman / Clare McDowel, IELTS Practice Tests – Skills development, Longman, 2011

Collins Cobuild Key Words for IELTS, Book 3, 2011

 

 

 

 

Last update: Starý Martin, PhDr. (21.09.2022)