Central Content

The teaching in the course should address the following central content:

Communication Content:

• Concrete and abstract topics related to society, work life, and the students’ education.
• Opinions, ideas, and experiences, as well as ethical and existential issues.
• Themes, form, and content in film and literature. Authorship in relation to literary periods.
• Social issues, cultural, political, and historical conditions, and values in different contexts and areas where English is used, also in comparison with their own experiences and knowledge.

Reception:

• Spoken English, even at a relatively fast pace and with elements of sociolectal and dialectal variation.
• Texts, even complex and formal ones, from various media.
• Spoken English and texts that are narrative, discussing, arguing, reporting, and accounting - each kind separately or in different combinations. For example, lectures, debates, formal letters, and popular science texts.
• Literature, including poetry and drama, both contemporary and extracts from older works.
• Strategies for drawing conclusions about purpose, perspective, and implied meaning, for example, by taking notes, asking questions, identifying the main message, and using general knowledge.
• Searching for content in large amounts of text, or longer sequences of spoken English, in sources of various kinds and for different purposes. Evaluation of the sources’ relevance and reliability.
• How variation and adaptation are created through sentence construction, word formation, and word choice, such as regional variants and collocations, in informal and formal contexts.
• How structure and context are created through conjunctions expressing, for example, cause and comparison.
• How attitudes, perspectives, and levels of style are expressed in spoken and written English.
• How the oral and written English that students encounter is structured to influence an intended target group.

Production and Interaction:

• Oral and written production and interaction with different purposes, where students reason, argue, apply, reproduce, and summarize.
• Strategies for contributing to and actively participating in arguments, debates, and discussions related to society and work life, for example, by asking follow-up questions, explaining, contributing with new perspectives, and connecting to others’ posts.
• Linguistic phenomena, including pronunciation, vocabulary, grammatical structures and sentence construction, spelling, text cohesion, internal and external structure, and adaptation, in the students’ own production and interaction.
• Processing of language and structure in their own oral and written presentations to adapt them according to purpose, context, and genre.

In summary, the course aims to develop students’ understanding and proficiency in English across a range of topics and contexts, focusing on both receptive skills (understanding and interpreting English in various forms and settings) and productive skills (speaking and writing English for different purposes and audiences). It also seeks to enhance students’ ability to analyze and critically evaluate English language sources, and to adapt their own use of English according to different contexts and communicative purposes.

Can also be read in Swedish here. Click “Engelska 6, 100 poäng”.