120103 General English brush up (B1+)

Type
Lecture and exercise
Semester hours
2
Lecturer (assistant)
Weber, Elisabeth
Organisation
BOKU-International Relations
Offered in
Wintersemester 2025/26
Languages of instruction
Englisch
Content

Maximum Flexibility: Learn When and Where It Suits You Best
This course is designed as a video-based, asynchronous e-learning format, giving you full flexibility in terms of time and location. You can access all content and complete tasks on your own schedule; whenever it best fits into your daily life – as long as you meet the specified deadlines (which are all clearly communicated).
Each module includes targeted tasks that support you in systematically developing your English skills. There are no fixed class times or mandatory on-site sessions. Instead, you shape your learning process in a way that integrates smoothly into your studies, work commitments, or personal life.

To support continuous learning, you are expected to log into the platform at least once a week and complete the assigned activities.

PLEASE WATCH THE INFORMATION VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/KCLysZYjXpc

This course is ideal for (lower) intermediate students who wish to revise English tenses while at the same time seek to enhance listening, reading, writing and speaking skills in the foreign language. Together we create a supportive setting to allow for interactive language use. This also helps students develop their skills, increase vocabulary and gain more confidence when using English.
Previous knowledge expected

Result „B1“ in the mandatory online-entrance test.
Objective (expected results of study and acquired competences)

Overall learning outcome:
By the end of the course students have further developed their competences to understand and communicate personal and general professional contents in an international context using English as a means of international communication at level B1 to B1+.

This means that after the successful completion of this course, students can
* use English for personal and general professional contributions in written and oral settings at level B1 to B1+,
* apply strategies to further their healthy and proactive relationship with English as an international means of communication,
* understand the importance of lifelong learning, especially related to foreign languages / working languages.

In order to reach this goal students learn to
-Appropriately apply basic English grammar in context and understand the general underlying principles of basic grammar,
-Read and understand the quintessence of general and professional texts from various fields of everyday life,
-Understand and produce appropriate general comments in English,
-Present personal and general professional opinions and respond adequately to opinions expressed by others,
-Develop strategies to register, manage and extend their vocabulary,
-Transform their knowledge from the first language into English in a comprehensible way and vice versa,
-Apply the English language in everyday life and general professional contexts in an efficient and flexible manner,
-Develop a healthy and supportive level of self-esteem when using English as a lingua franca
-Understand the importance of and actively promote lifelong learning.
You can find more details like the schedule or information about exams on the course-page in BOKUonline.