Foreign language for academic purposes
Course: Land management and cadastre
Structural unit: heohrafichnyi fakultet
            Title
        
        
            Foreign language for academic purposes
        
    
            Code
        
        
            ОК.9
        
    
            Module type 
        
        
            Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
        
    
            Educational cycle
        
        
            Second
        
    
            Year of study when the component is delivered
        
        
            2022/2023
        
    
            Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
        
        
            2 Semester
        
    
            Number of ECTS credits allocated
        
        
            3
        
    
            Learning outcomes
        
        
            talking
dialogic speech:
- communicate quite effectively in constructive situations and short conversations, provided that the interlocutor will help if necessary;
- ask questions and answer questions, exchange opinions on topics being studied;
monologue speech:
- tell a story or describe a subject in the form of a short series of simple phrases and sentences like a list;
- make very short, prepared statements, the content of which is foreseen and understandable for listeners who are ready for communicative cooperation;
writing:
- write short, simple notes and messages related to the topics being studied;
- write very simple personal letters expressing gratitude and apology;
        
    
            Form of study
        
        
            Full-time form
        
    
            Prerequisites and co-requisites
        
        
            The course program involves solving the following tasks:
• psychologically reorient students to the perception of a foreign language as an external source of information and means of communication;
• to prepare students for natural communication in oral and written forms by profession;
• to teach students to see the English language as a means of obtaining, expanding and deepening systemic professional knowledge, as well as a means of independently improving their professional qualifications;
• to reveal to students the potential of the English language as an opportunity to expand their own linguistic, speech, linguistic, sociocultural and other competences in the specialty
• contribute to students' mastery of the following competencies:
K04. Ability to work in an international context.
K16. Knowledge of the main modern provisions of the fundamental sciences regarding the origin, development and structure of the universe, the ability to apply them to form a worldview.
        
    
            Course content
        
        
            The purpose of the discipline is to improve the ability to communicate in a foreign language, to understand original professionally-oriented and academic literature, to develop the necessary communication skills in oral and written forms within the scope of the subject necessary for the future professional activity of the student. Achieving the set goal is facilitated by the use of the method of situation analysis during practical classes. The main forms of control of classroom and independent work of students are the preparation of presentations, reports, writing essays, business letters, performance of control tasks.
        
    
            Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
        
        
            1.	Murphy, Raymond. Essential Grammar in Use: a self-study reference and practice book for elementary students of English. – Cambridge University Press, 1990. – 296 p. – ISBN 0-521-357705.
2.	Helen Naylor with Raymond Murphy. Essential Grammar in Use: Supplementary Exercises with Answers. – Cambridge University Press, 1996. – 106 p. – ISBN 0-521-46997-x.
3.	Jenny Dooley, Virginia Evans. Grammarway 1. – Express Publishing, 2004. – 142 p. – ISBN-13: 978-1-84465-594-5. 
4.	Michael McCarthy, Felicity O’Dell. English Vocabulary in Use: – Cambridge University Press, 1999. – 168 p. – ISBN 0-521-599571.
5.	Hackett, Jay. K. & Moyer, Richard, H. &. Adams, Donald, K. Merrill Science Program Components, K-6. – Merrill.
6.	Starshinova, E. K. English for Students of Geology. – Moscow: Vysšaja Škola, 1978. 
        
    
            Planned learning activities and teaching methods
        
        
            To be able to communicate with specialists and experts of various levels in other fields of knowledge, including in an international context, in a global information environment.Plan and carry out scientific experiments, write scientific papers by specialty.
        
    
            Assessment methods and criteria
        
        
            Final assessment in the II semester (in the form of a written exam). The exam consists of performing test tasks (100 points).
        
    
            Language of instruction
        
        
            Ukrainian
        
    Lecturers
This discipline is taught by the following teachers
                     Olha
                    Kostyantynivna
                    Shevchenko
                
                
                    Foreign Languages Department for Natural Science Faculties		 
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
            Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Departments
The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline
                        Foreign Languages Department for Natural Science Faculties		
                    
                    
                        Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology