Syllabus for Advanced A level


Syllabus - Teaching Program for the Course

English for BA Students – Advanced A Level

Lecturer Name| English-as-a-Foreign Language Unit
41-014

 

 

Course type:

Workshop

Academic credits:

4 weekly hours

Year of study:

2026-27

Semester:

A\B

Day and time:

-

Reception time:

By appointment

Lecturer email:

-

Moodle site:

-

 

 

Course description and learning goals

 

Course Abstract

The Mitkadmim A course develops students’ academic English proficiency through an integrated approach that aligns with the CEFR’s four communicative activities – reception, production, interaction, and mediation.

Through coursework, students develop receptive competences by engaging with academic texts of increasing length and complexity, ranging from 1,500 to 2,400 words. They learn to build strategies for efficient text analysis and interpretation and expand their academic vocabulary and language control. Exposure to a wide range of authentic materials fosters students’ confidence and autonomy as academic language users. Communicative tasks are designed to activate oral and written production and interaction, offering opportunities to navigate complex content, express ideas with clarity and precision, and mediate information across texts and contexts.

 

Learning objectives 

 

Knowledge

  1. Learners will identify the main features, organization, and purposes of basic authentic academic texts, including their main ideas, supporting details, arguments, and conclusions.

  2. Learners will identify the role of different types of connectors and key paragraphs in establishing relationships between ideas and organizing an academic text.

  3. Learners will apply knowledge of vocabulary formation, including roots, prefixes, suffixes, and contextual clues, to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.

 

Skills

 

  1. Learners will comprehend the main points, ideas, and supporting details of clearly articulated spoken English in lectures, discussions, and talks on familiar topics.

  2. Learners will read and comprehend basic authentic academic texts, locating their main idea, purpose, structure, and conclusion.

  3. Learners will use reading strategies such as scanning, identifying the line of argument, and gathering information from different parts of one or more texts to complete specific tasks.

  4. Learners will use contextual and word-formation strategies to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words and sentences.

  5. Learners will communicate information and ideas on familiar concrete and abstract topics, explain problems, ask for and provide clarification, and justify simple viewpoints.

  6. Learners will participate effectively in conversations, discussions, class activities, and online collaborative tasks, demonstrating appropriate oral and aural communication strategies.

  7. Learners will give clear, prepared presentations and produce short reports or posters that organize and communicate key information effectively.

  8. Learners will write structured texts and short responses that summarize information, express opinions, and provide simple reasons and supporting details.

  9. Learners will summarize and relay relevant information and arguments from straightforward spoken and written sources.

  10. Learners will collaborate with people from different backgrounds by asking and answering questions, seeking clarification, expressing interest and empathy, and responding to suggestions and alternative approaches.

  11. Learners will communicate with reasonable accuracy and intelligibility, using an appropriate range of vocabulary, grammar, linking devices, spelling, punctuation, and layout.

 

Values

 

1. Learners will develop openness to different perspectives and cultural viewpoints by engaging respectfully and empathetically with others in discussions and collaborative activities.

 

Class Assessment 

Various strategy-based reading assignments (at least 3 assignments) (e.g., “seen” comprehension quizzes, skills-focused activities)

(up to 10% of this component may be marked as all/nothing).

45%
At least two vocabulary quizzes (worth at least 10%)
End-of-semester sample exam20%
Oral presentation (individual or in groups, delivered frontally in class) (obligatory) (10-15%)35%

In-class graded writing assignment to be completed in groups of 2-3 without the use of AI. (10%) 

Writing a paragraph of 120-150 words or longer.

Other communicative language activities* integrating reception, production, interaction, mediation (involving the four skills), for example: 

- group discussions;

- written responses to texts, videos, or podcasts;

- integrated reading-listening-writing tasks;

- collaborative activities involving shared engagement with academic texts   or other communicative input;

- activities involving strategic and well-considered experimentation with AI (formative assessment)

Final exam

The final exam consists of a text of 2200-2400 words accompanied by reading comprehension questions of various types (e.g., open-ended, completion, multiple-choice questions). 

 

Course requirements

  • Attendance and active participation in class sessions

  • Successful completion of class assignments, quizzes and homework

  • Final exam

 

Prerequisites

Successful completion of the Bsisi course or a psychometric grade of 100-119. 

 

 

Bibliography: Up-to-date reading, viewing, and listening content items

  • Articles posted on the Lamda platform.

  • Supplementary material provided by the course instructor.