Online Summer Pre-Sessional English Course

• Block One: Getting Started
• Block Two: Recording Information
• Block Three: Using Information
• Block Four: Looking Forward

The modules listed above for this course are regularly reviewed to ensure they are up to date and informed by industry as well as the latest teaching methods. On occasion, we may need to make unexpected changes to modules – if this occurs, we will contact all offer holders as soon as possible.

Teaching and assessment

Teaching

Teaching is delivered entirely online through Canvas, our online learning platform. Material is delivered via ‘blocks’ consisting of various units (e.g. listening skills for lectures, presentation skills, structuring academic writing).

Teaching and learning materials include:

• Pre-recorded videos covering key aspects of academic skills
• Guided independent study tasks
• Interactive online seminars discussing topics with teachers and other students
• Online discussion board tasks collaborating with other students and course lecturers
• Two 15-minute personal tutorials across the course

It is estimated that you will spend at least five hours per day working on the materials provided.

Assessment

You will be assessed through continuous portfolio tasks resulting in marks for each of the four skills (listening, reading, writing, speaking). There will be a resit opportunity for each of the assessed tasks.

• Listening – comprehension (30%), PowerPoint note-taking (30%), lecture note-taking with summary (40%)
• Reading – reading comprehension (50%), abstracts and critical reading (30%), note-taking (20%)
• Writing – paragraph summary (20%), text summary (30%), 700-word discursive essay based on written and audio materials (50%)
• Speaking – individual interview (20%), PowerPoint presentation (30%), online group seminar (50%)

Final assessments need to be submitted by the week commencing 24 August 2020, with final resits submitted by 4 September 2020.