Brief description of the discipline

The main purpose of discipline is to prepare students for academic study through communicative approach and promote independent learning by encouraging them to become motivated and active language learners. By the end of this level, students can understand main ideas and specific information in short straightforward and texts with high frequency everyday language with a relatively wide vocabulary range.
  They can understand personal letters and simple newspaper articles / interview. Students can:

-skim a text to understand the gist

-skim a text to find its main idea

-skim to identify the purpose of the text

- scan texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of text, or from different texts

-work out the meaning of words in context

-understand how a text is organized

-use a monolingual and/or bilingual dictionary to understand the meaning of words and extend their vocabulary

-identify specific information in conversation and monologues on current topics and/or topics of personal interest

-understand paraphrased ideas in conversation and monologues on current topics and/or topics of personal interest

-take notes for future reference

-use a variety of strategies to achieve comprehension

-write a formal letter of enquiry at a basic level

-organize a text with connectors

-write texts involving

-opinion

-result

-reasons

-comparison/contrast

-give or seek personal views and opinions in an informal discussion

-give descriptions (experiences, events, routines, places, etc.)

-make presentations (experiences, events, routines, places, etc.)

-use conversation strategies

 

Course content

Weeks	Themes	References	Hours	Rate score
1	2	3	4	5
Semester 2. Social and cultural sphere of communication
1	Lexical material: Health, healthy way of life. Health and sport. Parts of the body. Factors influencing on the health (way of life, hygiene, sport). Grammar: Passive Voice: Simple, Continuous, Perfect tenses	Basic literature 1-4 Supplementary literature 1-3,4,5	3	1,5
2	Lexical material: Medical service and forms of social protection in Kazakhstan and England. Family doctor. The activity of the family doctor. Do you consider the medicine requiring payment to be a substantial step in the development of medicine? Grammar: Passive Voice: transitive, intransitive verbs, uses, reporting verbs, have/get something done	Basic literature 1-3,4  Supplementary literature 1-3,5,7	3	1,5
3	Lexical material: Age diseases. Grammar: The Infinitive with to or that clause and without to, Infinitive of purpose, Infinitive constructions: Complex Object, Complex Subject	Basic literature  1-4 Supplementary literature 1-3, 5	3	1,5
4	Lexical material: Law. Human rights and their protection. Organizations on protection of human rights in the Republic of Kazakhstan and English speaking countries. Grammar: Relative clauses. Subject & Object clauses, omitting the relative pronoun. Simple, complex, compound sentences	Basic literature 1,2,3,4 Supplementary literature 1-3, 6	3	1,5
5	Lexical material: Crimes and punishments. How must the crimes among young people be warned? Grammar: Sequence of tenses. Reported speech in statements. Indirect speech with and without tense changes	Basic literature 1-4 Supplementary literature 1-3, 7	3	1,5
6	Lexical material: Nature and man. Civilization and environment. Protection of the environment. Grammar: Reported speech in questions, in requests, orders, reporting verbs, paraphrase.	Basic literature 1-4 Supplementary literature 1,2,3,8	3	1,5
7	Lexical material: The role of the party "The Greens" in the protection of environment. Grammar: Prepositions of movement, position and place. Prepositional phrases. Time expressions: nowadays, these days, in, calendar references, eventually, in the end.. Expressing reason, text organizers: sequencing, adding, giving opinions, summing up: as, since, for, on account of, owing to, due to.	Basic literature  1-4 Supplementary literature 1,2,3, 5	3	1,5
8	Lexical material: My individual contribution to the solution of ecological problems. Grammar: It and there, adjectives. One, someone, everyone, everything, everybody, whatever.	Basic literature 1-4     Supplementary literature 1-3, 6		10
	Midterm examination 1
Week	Themes	References	Hours	Rate score
1	2	3	4	5