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MID-TERM TEST: on Thursday November 23, 2023

SYLLABUS PPE Winter Semester of 2023

Ø Please submit all your writing assignments via Moodle 1 (English Academic Writing), on a weekly basis

Ø Also remember to send filled-out Vocabulary sheets via Moodle 1, on a weekly basis

Ø Photo project – deadline October 28 (send via regular email)

Ø News Overview – deadline December 16 (send via Moodle 1)

Ø NOTE: No more than 2 missed deadlines allowed



*DATE*	*VOCABULARY BUILD-UP*	*ACADEMIC ENGLISH*	*WRITING LAB (for more details on writing assignments, see individual Worksheets)*
*Introductory class/ October 5*	*INTRODUCTORY INFO*
*TOPIC no. 1/October 12*	*Leaders and Leadership*	*Writing introductions and a topic sentence/Introductory adverbs/Negative prefixes*	*Writing introductory paragraph of opinion essay (deadline October 18)*
*TOPIC no. 2/ October 19*	*Emigration/Immigration/Migration*	*A number of vs. the number of/rise vs. raise/Academic phrasal verbs/Connecting phrases/Causality*	*Cause-Effect essay (deadline October 25)*
*TOPIC no. 3/ October 26*	*International Relations*	*Comparing and contrasting/Describing graphs and trends/Referring to figures and tables/Referring backwards and forwards*	*Comparing/Contrasting essay (deadline November 1)*
*TOPIC no. 4/ November 2*	*Wars and Conflicts / PHOTO PROJECT*	*Counter-words/Writing a formal summary/Reporting verbs I*	*Writing a formal summary (deadline November 8)*
*TOPIC no. 5/ November 9*	*Government, Parliament, President / PHOTO PROJECT*	*“out” nouns and verbs/the bigger...the more.../by vs. until/Cohesive devices*	*(no writing assignment – revising for the mid-term)*
*TOPIC no. 6/November 16*	*Globalization / PHOTO PROJECT*	*Hedging/Commonly confused words/Restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses*	*Hedging a passage (deadline NOVEMBER 29)*
*November 23*	*MID-TERM*
*TOPIC no. 7/November 30*	*Poverty and Humanitarian Aid / PHOTO PROJECT*	*Writing conclusions/Present Perfect form in writing*	*Writing a conclusion (deadline December 6)*
*TOPIC no. 8/December 7*	*Religion / PHOTO PROJECT*	*Nominalization/Phrasal verbs – recession/Using quotations*	*Referring to a passage with the use of quotations (deadline December 13)*
*TOPICS no. 9 and 10/December 14*	*Media / PHOTO PROJECT* The European Union and International Organizations / PHOTO PROJECT (we will cover both Topics no. 9 and 10 in this class)	*Reporting verbs II/Paraphrasing*	*Paraphrasing a passage (deadline December 20)*
*December 21*	*PRE-TERMS*