Target participants: This course is intended for students on all academic levels and from all faculties who want to improve their speaking and writing for academic, professional and everyday settings.

Course content: The course builds on the foundations attained in school, to enhance your accuracy, fluency and confidence in spoken and written English. Examples of spoken and written texts from university, work and everyday life on a variety of topics allow you to develop your vocabulary across the disciplines. Guided autonomous learning refreshes and expands your grammar on the advanced level. In class you train oral interaction and presentation skills; for homework you write short texts that elaborate on these oral activities. This allows you to familiarize yourself with a range of academic, professional and everyday topics and to manage the differences between different genres and registers appropriate to the different settings. This course can be taken as a background refresher for the Cambridge C1 exam and as a precursor to the course English speaking and writing on the C1+ level offered in the spring semester.   

Course information

Online registration will open on 01.09.2023. The number of places is limited.

An invoice for the course fees will be sent to registered students during the first weeks of semester.

Requirements for acquisition of credit points
In order to receive 2 credit points, candidates will
- not be absent more than twice
- submit, revise and resubmit a total of between 1200 and 1500 words
- deliver a presentation of 6 to 8 minutes.
Please note: your study advisor can inform you whether the credits can be credited to your degree programme.

Certificate of attendance: A course certificate is issued at the end of the course for regular attendance and active course participation.

Contact: international@unilu.ch