Adolescents Pre ECCE

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Duration

1 academic year
Available options:
a) once a week (4 hours-asynchronous component included)
b) twice a week (4 hours-no asynchronous component)

Certificate of Attendance

Yes

Prerequisites

To attend this course, students are expected to have completed at least the Adolescents D course.

New students are placed in this course after sitting the Hellenic American Union placement test.

This course aims at the completion of B1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). The course includes reading, writing, listening and speaking components that draw on new trends in educational technology and language teaching.

At this level, students are typically expected to be able to:

understand the main ideas as well as the details of relatively long texts on both concrete and abstract topics,
interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers possible without considerable strain for either party,
produce clear, detailed texts on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options,
take part in the B1 level certification exams of the Hellenic American University (BCCE^TM).

This course provides practice in vocabulary, grammar, speaking, listening, reading, writing.

The reading component typically consists of adapted and authentic texts as included in the selected textbooks used or in the additional teaching material designed by the Academic Team specifically for the needs of the course, covering a wide variety of topics, including sports, health, cinema, shopping, music, travelling, etc.
The listening component typically consists of to (phone)conversations, routine interactions, interviews, communication between native and non-native speakers of English from all over the world, etc.
The writing component typically consists of writing ((in)formal) letters and e-mails, descriptive essays, articles, reports, reviews, short narratives, etc.
The speaking component typically consists of pronunciation and intonation practice, describing experiences and preferences, expressing personal opinions, agreeing, and disagreeing, making complaints and suggestions, giving short presentations, etc.
The grammar component typically consists of the complete verb system (active and passive voice), prepositions, relative clauses, conditionals, wishes, modal verbs, familiarity with gerunds/infinitives, causative etc.
The vocabulary in this course consists of collocations, synonyms-antonyms, word formation, prefixes and suffixes, phrasal verbs, idioms, and vocabulary associated with the topics under discussion.

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The BCCE constitutes an official certification of knowledge of the English language at B1 level.