Бакалавриат
2025/2026
Английский язык
Статус:
Курс обязательный (Прикладной анализ данных)
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 1-4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Контактные часы:
272
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course is compulsory and aimed at helping students majoring in Data Science and Business Analytics develop English language competence. That involves improving students’ reading, listening, writing, and speaking skills, expanding their grammar and vocabulary range as well as preparing them for further studies and research. Students’ progress through the course is monitored by means of progress tests, written assignments, interim exam in module 2 and a final exam in module 4.
Learning Objectives
- to hone students’ reading, listening, writing, and speaking skills in English
- to enrich students’ vocabulary
- to advance students’ knowledge of English grammar and their ability to use it
- to improve students’ pronunciation
- to enhance students’ communication skills
- to advance students’ critical and independent thinking skills
- to familiarize students with the IEE exam format
- to equip students with effective exam strategies
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Revises how to use numbers, percentages and amounts, produces a description of a table.
- Uses lexis related to academic study and research in Exam Speaking Parts 1, 2, 3.
- Discusses study habits and skills.
- Answers True/False/Not Given and multiple-choice questions in Exam Reading tasks.
- Completes notes, tables, summaries in Exam Listening tasks.
- Understands different types of diagrams.
- Writes introductions in academic essays and reports. Knows how to structure an essay and a report and how to organise paragraphs.
- Produces an overview, describes the main trends, comments on the data in a description of line graphs with a trend, uses prepositions of time, numbers and amounts accurately in Exam Writing Task 1.
- Understands the Exam band descriptors.
- Uses lexis related to the environment in Exam Speaking Parts 1, 2, 3 and essays.
- Discusses global problems and solutions to them.
- Completes flow charts, diagrams, sentences in Exam Reading.
- Labels maps, plans in Exam Listening tasks, does gap-fill tasks in Exam Listening Part 4.
- Uses the active and the passive voice, the articles, sequencing phrases and verb forms accurately to describe diagrams with a process, evolution or a life cycle of an animal.
- Describes problems and solutions to them in an essay. Produces an essay with an introduction, 2 main body paragraphs and a conclusion.
- Uses lexis related to culture in Exam Speaking Parts 1, 2, 3 and essays. Discusses languages, globalisation, history.
- Answers Yes/No/Not Given questions and matches headings in Exam Reading.
- Does multiple-choice tasks in Exam Listening.
- Revises describing line graphs with a trend. Uses approximation when describing numbers and amounts, compares and contrasts information, describing comparative line graphs and bar charts.
- Plans, writes and checks an opinion essay (“How far do you agree or disagree…?”). Expresses agreement, disagreement in writing.
- Uses lexis related crime and the law in Exam Speaking Parts 1, 2, 3 and essays.
- Discusses crime, crime prevention, implementing laws, rehabilitation of criminals.
- Completes questions, practises True/False/Not Given tasks in Exam Reading.
- Revises how to describe line graphs, bar charts and processes. Produces well-organised main body paragraphs with topic sentences, reasons and arguments to support them in essays. Writes a discursive essay (“Discuss both views…”).
- Uses lexis related to scientific discovery and progress in Exam Speaking Parts 1, 2, 3 and essays.
- Discusses famous scientists, inventions, innovation and progress.
- Completes summaries, matches information in Exam Reading tasks.
- Does multiple-choice and gap-fill tasks in Exam Listening.
- Expresses certainty, possibility, probability, necessity using modal verbs and lexical modality in speech and writing.
- Describes percentages, fractions, numbers and amounts in a pie-chart description.
- Produces complex sentences in writing using defining, non-defining relative clauses. Produces a positive/ negative development essay.
- Uses lexis related to town and the country, transport in Exam Speaking Parts 1, 2, 3 and essays.
- Discusses city/county life, innovations in transport.
- Practises matching tasks in Exam Reading.
- Labels maps, plans, completes notes in Exam Listening.
- Uses tenses and prepositions of place, lexis related to location and directions accurately when describing maps and plans in Exam Writing Task 1. Expresses common opinions and beliefs, avoids generalizations, shows one’s opinion in an advantages/disadvantages essay.
- Uses lexis related to health and medicine in Exam Speaking Parts 1, 2, 3 and essays.
- Discusses illnesses, pandemics, and innovations in medicine, food, diet and mental health.
- Completes notes, matches information in Exam Reading tasks.
- Revises how to approach matching tasks in Exam Listening.
- Analyses information from several charts, chooses features to describe and data to support the description with, produces a report.
- Paraphrases using synonyms in writing. Uses words that show cause and effect relationships in a cause-and-effect essay.
- Uses lexis related to the media and fame in Exam Speaking Parts 1, 2, 3 and essays.
- Discusses traditional and new media, social networks, celebrities, advertising.
- Revises tasks types in Exam Reading.
- Completes forms in Exam Listening Section 1.
- Knows all the differences between reports and essays of all types, produces a report and an essay with several questions (mixed-questions type).
- Uses lexis related to money, finance, business and industry in Exam Speaking Parts 1, 2, 3 and essays.
- Discusses personal finance, government spending, international aid, career, equality.
- Matches sentence endings, completes summaries, answers Yes/No/Not Given questions in Exam Reading tasks.
- Completes notes in Exam Listening Section 4.
- Practises describing multiple diagrams, revises the key features of all types of diagrams and essays.
- Produces a report and an essay of any type.
- Uses lexis related to character, relationships, sports in Exam Speaking Parts 1, 2, 3 and essays.
- Discusses family, friends, community, sports.
- Completes objective summary tasks.
- Revises all Exam Reading task types. Completes tables, revises all Exam Listening task types.
- Distinguishes between different types of essays and reports. Produces a report and an essay of any type.
- Exam Reading
- Exam Writing
- Exam Listening
- Exam Speaking
- Students will attain the level of an Independent User (B2) according to the CEFR (The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).
- Students will be able to understand extended speech, lectures on familiar topics, longer factual texts and specialised articles, understand the main ideas of complex texts, implicit meanings and writers’ opinions, actively participate in discussions and use English effectively in social and academic contexts.
- Students will express their opinion on a range of subjects, produce a well-structured academic essay or a report based visual information, present information and support their reasoning with arguments, use appropriate style.
- Students will know the HSE’s IEE exam strategies and how to use them.
Course Contents
- Topic 1 Education
- Topic 2 The environment
- Topic 3 Culture
- Topic 4 Crime and the Law
- Topic 5 Science and Technology
- Topic 6 Urbanisation
- Topic 7 Health
- Topic 8 Mass Media
- Topic 9 Money and Finance
- Topic 10 Society and the individual
- Exam intensive preparation
Assessment Elements
- attendance, classworkAll the grades are recorded in each group’s register. A grade from 1 to 10 is calculated for G tests, G homework and G attendance, classwork according to the percentage each student gains of the maximum score. The percentage is then converted to the corresponding grade as in the table above.
- homeworkThe number of tests and quizzes for G tests, and home assignments for G homework is determined by the lecturer in each group. Students can resit the tests they have missed, get points for the classes they have missed and submit the homework tasks they could not submit in time, if they provide a medical certificate or the reasons for their absence are deemed valid by the Study office. Tests and quizzes can be retaken and homework assignments submitted within the next two weeks after the validity of the certificate or reasons has been confirmed. The tests and assignments that students do not manage to complete cannot prevent them from progressing through the course or taking an examination, i.e. blocking elements are not present, but this might contribute to a lower grade. All the grades are recorded in each group’s register. A grade from 1 to 10 is calculated for G tests, G homework and G attendance, classwork according to the percentage each student gains of the maximum score. The percentage is then converted to the corresponding grade as in the table above.
- testsThe number of tests and quizzes for G tests, and home assignments for G homework is determined by the lecturer in each group. Students can resit the tests they have missed, get points for the classes they have missed and submit the homework tasks they could not submit in time, if they provide a medical certificate or the reasons for their absence are deemed valid by the Study office. Tests and quizzes can be retaken and homework assignments submitted within the next two weeks after the validity of the certificate or reasons has been confirmed. The tests and assignments that students do not manage to complete cannot prevent them from progressing through the course or taking an examination, i.e. blocking elements are not present, but this might contribute to a lower grade. All the grades are recorded in each group’s register. A grade from 1 to 10 is calculated for G tests, G homework and G attendance, classwork according to the percentage each student gains of the maximum score. The percentage is then converted to the corresponding grade as in the table above.
- exam 2 moduleThe examination in December comprises a written part and an interview with a student. The written part is 80 minutes long and has listening, reading, and writing tasks. Speaking is assessed during a 10-minute interview. A grade from 1 to 10 is calculated for Listening and Reading according to the percentage each student gains of the maximum score. The percentage is then converted to the corresponding grade as in the conversion table above. A grade from 1 to 9 is given for Writing and Speaking according to Exam Writing and Speaking criteria tables. The grade is then converted to the corresponding HSE grade as in the table above. The final grade is calculated as the average of all the four grades. The following rounding rules are applied: grades from 1 to 7 are not rounded up, i.e. 4=4, 5=5, 6=6, 7=7. For grades from 7 to 10, the arithmetic rounding rule is applied, i.e. 0.1-0.4 is rounded down and 0.5 and higher is rounded up, e.g. 7.5=8.
- exam 4 moduleThe Examination in Module 4 may be held on two days. It has a written part of 160 minutes and a14-minute interview. Reading and listening parts have 40 questions each. Writing consists of two tasks: a report describing factual information presented as a diagram (a line graph, bar chart, pie chart, diagram with a process or life cycle, etc.) and an academic essay. Speaking has three parts with questions ranging from personal questions about students’ interests and hobbies in part 1 to a two-minute monologue in part 2 and more abstract questions in part 3, which require students to speculate in more detail about a particular topic. All the four papers are assessed using a 9-point exam scale and the average overall score is calculated. The final result is converted to an HSE grade as is given in the conversion table. The arithmetic rounding rule is applied to the overall exam grade in module 4 with the grades rounded up or down to the nearest band and half-band score, i.e. 0.1-0.24 is rounded down to 0, 0.25-0.49 is rounded up to 0.5, 0.5-0.74 is rounded down to 0.5, 0.75-0.9 is rounded up to 1.
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 2nd moduleG 1-2 modules= G cumulative 1-2 modules* 0.6 + G exam 2 module* 0.4 G cumulative 1-2 modules = G attendance, classwork * 0.4 + G homework * 0.3+ G tests * 0.3
- 2025/2026 4th moduleG 3-4 modules = G cumulative 3-4 modules * 0.6 + G exam 4 module * 0.4 G cumulative 3-4 modules = G attendance, classwork * 0.4 + G homework * 0.3+ G tests * 0.3
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- New English file : advanced student's book, Oxenden, C., 2010
- Oxford academic vocabulary practice : upper-intermediate B2-C1, Moore, J., 2017
- Oxford grammar for EAP : english grammar and practice for academic purposes with answers, Paterson, K., 2013
- Oxford practice grammar, Eastwood, J., 2004
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- English for academic study: Reading : course book, Slaght, J., 2006
- English for academic study: Reading and Writing : source book, Slaght, J., 2006
- English Grammar in Use : A self-study reference and practice book for intermediate students of English with answers, Murphy R., 2006