English : reading and listening comprehension of texts in Bioengineering [ LANGL1881 ]

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The studied themes are connected with Earth Sciences, current environmental issues and general scientific topics.

At the end of the course, students should have developed the following skills:

Reading comprehension

Reading and understanding of authentic scientific texts about bioengineering.

B1-B2 level of the « Common European Framework of References for Languages »

Listening comprehension

Listening and understanding of general and scientific television programmes.

B1 level of the « Common European Framework of References for Languages »

• Q1 exemption test :12/20 exempts the students from both
• Written exam on reading and listening skills
• Continuous assessment : test during the course of the term and Moodle exercises.

• Home-reading of the documents which will be covered in class in order to develop reading strategies.
• In class, checking of the student's reading strategies as well as analysis and comments.
• Discourse cohesion, recurrent grammatical structures and additional lexical and grammatical difficulties
• Listening comprehension : various language laboratory exercises to ensure a thorough understanding to the message and individual coaching in lanagueg laboratory.

• Reading comprehension: Articles from the New Scientist, Scientific American etc. as well as extracts from the textbook 'Understanding Earth' covered in the Bac 1 Earth Sciences course.
   
• Listening comprehension : BBC science programmes

• Course notes
• E-learning with Moodle