In this part of the course Study English through Movies 1 "Series" Stuff students will have an opportunity to meet several interesting characters from contemporary TV series (Numbers, Heroes, Seinfeld).
The course is designed for intermediate/upper-intermediate students of General English and aims at improving their listening skills. The tasks assigned involve identifying stressed and contracted words in the stream of speech and writing 80-120 word responses to the question related to the video fragment. The course can be used as part of the main General English course, or as an optional one.
There are four topics highlighted in the assignments: Living in space, Trust in Relationships, How to Handle Conflicts, Childhood Stories. The first one seems to be unique and thought-provoking; the way the other three have been shown in the series can shed new light on the well-trodden topics of relationships and conflicts.
- Преподаватель: Шилова Валентина Владимировна
The course "Study English through Movies" is designed as part of General English course at Mathematics and Mechanics Department; it can be, though, used by students at other departments as well. The level of English required for the students to succeed is Intermediate/Upper-Intermediate. However, Pre-Intermediate students can also benefit from fulfilling the course.
The course aims at assisting students in improving their listening skills in English, enlarging their vocabulary and polishing their grammar along the way.
One of the major skills developed is the skill of recognising the stressed words and reductions in the speech stream. As is known, stressed words are carriers of important information in the sentence, whereas reductions, or contractions, are mostly auxiliaries and other grammar markers.
There are three parts in the course: part 1 is created utilising TV series resources, part 2 - feature movie resources, part 3 - a 2003 documentary "Americans in Siberia" .
- Преподаватель: Шилова Валентина Владимировна
- Преподаватель: Долгушин Дмитрий Владимирович
- Преподаватель: Комарова Анна Владимировна
- Преподаватель: Новиков Александр Юрьевич