ECTS Credits:  17,5

Language: English

Duration:  V and VI semester

Status: mandatory

Prerequisites: completed prerequisites for enrolling in the third year of study

Examination: oral, end of each semester

Course description: During the third year the student is expected to develop linguistic, communicative, social and cultural  competence of an independent language user, the level which  according to the Council of Europe Recommendations as to the Language Teaching is qualified as B3.

The third year syllabus has the following distinctive features:

- The overall focus shifts from accuracy development to fluency practice.

- Topics pertaining to the "Professional Issues" block are introduced.

- There is a greater emphasis on the separate development of each skill in order to capitalise on a wider range of materials and higher level of task difficulty used at this stage. - The increased level of general and meta-language proficiency makes it possible for trainees to follow lectures and other types of academic discourse in the English language in the other subjects.

Objective: The third year syllabus strives to  carry on developing all four skills to enable trainees to reach target Level 3; further develop trainees" ability to use a wide range of structures and lexis in oral and written communication with regard to situation register; continue to provide an overall focus on enabling the learners to put the Curriculum elements into practice through using English for communicative purposes; enable students to acquire a deeper insight into the historical, social and cultural background of English speaking peoples; encourage students' development as autonomous learners capable of using flexible strategies relevant to their learning tasks.