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FSI-0A6Acad. year: 2024/2025
The 0A6 course 0A6 is a follow-up to 0A5 in the winter semester and targets students before they take the compulsory B1 exam (GEN3 or 7AZ) who need to develop their general English at the B1+ level of CEFR and extend it with academic language. It can also be selected by students who finished courses A5, A6 and need the general language course to fix their knowledge.
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Entry knowledge
The minimum entry requirement is the knowledge of A2+ grammar and vocabulary.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Final evaluation covers the student’s work in the exercises and the knowledge tested by a credit test and examination. The examination oral and the B1 level of CEFR.
Attendance is compulsory and is checked on a regular basis. Students are allowed to miss two seminars. In well-founded cases, extra absences can be made up for after consulting the situation with the teacher.
Aims
The aim of the course it to enhance individual abilities of students to express themselves in English at the B1+ level in general and academic contexts. The previously gained knowledge of grammar and vocabulary will be revised and systematically expanded with academic vocabulary.
After passing this course (and the follow-up course 0A6) students should be able to communicate in English independently at B1+ level.
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Week 1: Unit 5 Behavioral Science – Listening 1 (A Lifetime of Risks), evaluating evidenceWeek 2: Unit 5 Behavioral Science – Listening 2 (Science on the Edge), listening for numbersWeek 3: Unit 5 Behavioral Science – Video (The Voyage of Magellan), word families, past perfect, short presentationWeek 4: Unit 6 Neurology – Listening 1 (What Kind of “Smart” is AI?), inferring speaker’s attitudeWeek 5: Unit 6 Neurology – Listening 2 (Asking the Right Questions about AI), justifying claimsWeek 6: Unit 6 Neurology – Video (Alan Turing), gerunds and infinitives, group discussionWeek 7: Unit 7 Economics – Listening 1 (Sudden Wealth), signpostingWeek 8: Unit 7 Economics – Listening 2 (Happiness Breeds Success … and Money!), choosing between opinionsWeek 9: Unit 7 Economics – Video (Two Brothers), agreeing and disagreeing, group discussionWeek 10: Unit 8 Behavioral Science – Listening 1 (Learning from Failure), examplesWeek 11: Unit 8 Behavioral Science – Listening 2 (An Interview with Mohannad Abu-dayyah), paraphrasingWeek 12: Unit 8 Behavioral Science – Video (Hurricane Katrina), prefixes, simple past and present perfect, clarifying, pair discussionWeek 13: Review