4. Foreign Language

Module Name:

Module 4: Foreign Language

Code

M4EPE(Ba)

Module Elements:

Compulsory Subject

English (German) Language

Semester Number:

1, 2

Person responsible for the module

I.A. Olkova

Lecturer:

English (German) Language - I.A. Olkova

Language:

Russian, Kazakh

Curriculum relation:

Electrical Power Engineering (Ba)

Type of teaching  / number of hours per week and per semester :

1 semester: hours per week – 12 (workshops -4; independent work -8);

hours per semester – 180.

2 semester: hours per week – 6 (workshops -2; independent work -4);

hours per semester – 90.

Workload:

Teaching Load: 90 hours

Extracurricular Classes: 180 hours

Total: 270 hours

Credit Points:

9 ECTS

Conditions for Examinations:

For admission to the exam, the student must score at least 50 points out of 100 available for each subject of the module

Recommended Conditions:

Minimal sufficient level of foreign language proficiency, which students receive in secondary school.

Expected Learning Outcomes:

Know: basic grammar and vocabulary required for reading and translating (with a dictionary) of texts in a foreign language; basic spelling rules; main parts of speech; structure of a simple and a complex sentence.

Be able to: communicate (orally and in writing) in a foreign language on everyday topics; build simple and complex sentences; comprehend messages of a domestic or informational nature.

Possess the skills: to improve own speaking and written speech, vocabulary; reading, monologue speech within the study topics; translation of the text in accordance with language norms. 

Demonstrate the ability to: build a monologue and a dialogue; reasoned presentation of own point of view in interpersonal communication in a foreign language; extract the necessary information from the authentic text in a foreign language; fill in most personal and business forms (questionnaires, CV). 

Intendend use/applicability

Modules: Profound Language Learning, Information and Communication Technologies 

Content:

English (German) Language

Vocabulary:

- Social and Domestic Communication: Family in modern society, Housing and accommodation;

- Social and Cultural Communication: Kazakhstan, Country studies (English speaking countries: culture, geography, economy), Leisure, Traveling;

- Educational and Professional Communication: Education, My University, Jobs and Professions, My future profession, Professional competence, Advantages and disadvantages of different professions;

- Social and Cultural Communication: Health and Healthy Life Style, Law, Human Rights, Environment and environmental problems, Mass Media

Grammar:

- Tenses (Present, Past, Future – Simple, Continuous, Perfect);

- Conditional sentences;

- Reflexive, Possessive and Relative Pronouns;

- Passive Voice;

- Modal verbs (might, could, might, can);

- Reported Speech;

- Connectors (although, however, thus…);

- Quantifiers (a few, a little etc.);

- Adverbs of frequency;

- Degrees of comparison (adjectives and adverbs)

Examination Form, module mark:

Comprehensive examination including:

English (German) Language (1 semester)  – written examination

English (German) Language (2 semester)  - computer-based testing

Module mark: the result of the exam English (German) Language (2 semester) 

Technical/Multimedia Facilities:

Multimedia language laboratory, interactive whiteboard,  multimedia system

Study Materials:

1. Sue Kay & Vaughan Jones. Inside Out - Elementary: Macmillan, 2003.

2. Luke Prodromou. Rising Star – An Intermediate Course: Macmillan, 2001.

3. Raymond Murphy. English Grammar in Use: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

4. Simon Clarke. Macmillan English Grammar in Context: Macmillan, 2008.

5. I. Agabekyan, P. Kovalenko. English for Engineers. - 4th ed., Rostov-on-Don: Phoenix, 2006.

6. G. E. Vyborova, K. S. Makhmuryan, O. P. Melchina. Easy English: Basic course: M.: AST-Press Kniga, 2005.

Date of last amendment

26.01.2023