Content

Thematic Units 1. Introducing Yourself: Talk about your name, where you are from, and what you do. 2. Daily Routines: Describe a typical day in your life, including your morning routine and activities. 3. Family and Friends: Share information about your family members and close friends. 4. Hobbies and Interests: Discuss activities you enjoy doing in your free time. 5. Travel and Vacation: Talk about places you have visited or would like to visit in the future. 6. Food and Cooking: Describe your favorite foods and any recipes you like to prepare. 7. Shopping: Talk about your shopping habits and favorite stores or markets. 8. Weather and Seasons: Discuss the current weather and your favorite season and why. 9. Movies and Music: Share your favorite movies or music artists and why you like them. 10. Work and Career: Talk about your job or career aspirations and what you like about your work. 11. Health and Fitness: Discuss how you stay healthy and favorite exercises or sports. 12. Holidays and Celebrations: Describe how you celebrate special occasions or holidays. 13. Future Plans and Goals: Talk about your hopes and goals for the future, both personal and professional. Grammar and syntax structures • Nouns/adjectives • Comparisons • Relative Clauses • Verb Tenses • Table of Irregular Verbs Skills • Note-taking • Paragraph structure – paragraph writing • Writing an e-mail • Speaking Skills • Translating Skills A combination of teaching and learning methods will be used, aiming at the active participation of the students and the practical application of the thematic units under examination. The students will also undertake an individual or group project. Furthermore, articles, audiovisual lecture materials, web links/addresses, useful information, and exercises for further practice are posted in digital form on the AUA Open e-Class platform.

Learning results

The aims of the course are the following:

To teach the students basic elements of the English language and Grammar aimed at raising their awareness about the usefulness of the language both for their academic studies and their future professional life thereafter.
To enrich the students’ vocabulary through exposing them to language material from various sources (General English of A1-A2 level, as defined by the Common European Framework of reference for languages, 2018).
To offer the students practice in grammatical and syntactic structures of English indispensable for the enhancement of their language proficiency (of A1-A2 level, as defined by the Common European Framework of reference for languages, 2018).
To develop the students’ 4 language skills (listening comprehension, speaking competence, reading comprehension, and writing ability, of A1-A2 level, as defined by the Common European Framework of reference for languages, 2018).

Upon successful completion of the course the students will be able to:

Understand clearly and without any particular deviations from the standard language form (which may cause a breakdown in communication) the main points of the General English they are presented with.
Address situations / problems which may arise when they find themselves in a country or setting among foreigners where they are obliged to use English to communicate.
Produce oral language using vocabulary from various sources and grammatical / syntactic structures of an A1-A2 level (as defined by the Common European Framework of reference for languages, 2018).

General Competences
• Search, analyze and synthesize data and information, using the necessary technologies
• Adapt to new situations
• Make decisions
• Work autonomously
• Work in teams
• Advance free, creative and causative thinking

Bibliography

Bibliography: • PPulses or Pulses? Learn English for Agriculture, Kazamia Vassilia • TThe Earth in a Nutshell. A Coursebook for Specific and Academic Purposes: For Students of Agriculture and Forestry, MALIVITSI LIFE, FOTEINI PERDIKI, Publisher ANGELos ATH. ALTINTZIS S.A., 2018. • NEW ENTERPRISE A2 GRAMMAR BOOK WITH DIGIBOOK, Dooley Jenny, EXPRESS PUBLISHING • NATURAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR 3 - Pre- Intermediate- CEFR A2, Andrew Betsis and Lawrence Mamas,ΜΠΕΤΣΗΣ ΑΝΔΡΕΑΣ ΜΑΡΚΟΣ Instructor's Notes: Students are also provided with texts for study and practice, as well as many graded language exercises for the practice and reinforcement of vocabulary and grammatical-syntactic phenomena.

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