Azərbaycan Respublikası Elm və Təhsil Nazirliyi

Azərbaycan Respublikası Prezidenti yanında

Dövlət İdarəçilik Akademiyası
“Dillər” kafedrası

TƏSDİQ EDİRƏM:
I tədris işləri üzrə prorektor
prof. Ə.Z.Abdullayev

İŞÇİ TƏDRİS PROQRAMI

(sillabus)
Siyasi idarəetmə fakültəsi
Xarici dildə işgüzar və akademik kommunikasiya (İngilis dili)

İxtisas: Dövlət və İctimai Münasibətlər

Kurs: I
Semestr: I
Qrup: DİM 222b
Fənnə ayrılmış saat: 96 saat
Onlardan: 1 saat məsləhət, 5 saat imtahan
Məşğələlər: 90 saat
Müəllim: fil. f.d. b.m., Ömərova Gülsərən Hamlet qızı

BAKI- 2022-2023
 Ministry of Science and Education
Republic of Azerbaijan
The Academy of Public Administration
under The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

School of Political Administration

Academic and Special English Language

First Term

Vice-rector on academic affairs

_______ prof.A.Z.Abdullahyev

Instructor: Dr. Gulsaran Omarova

Contact: gulsaran.omarova@teams.dia.edu.az

Office House: by appointment

Total amount of hours: 90 teaching, 5 hours exam, 1 hour consultation

Course: State and Public Relations, Year I

Course Information:

The course is designed to help you use English language in more advanced academic settings and
everyday situations by developing your analytical and critical reasoning skills. It will also cover some
topics for your major of study as it will be based on professional English as well.
The course will meet twice a week, which will last for 15 weeks. The students’ evaluation will be based
on in class assessments and final exam.

Course Description and Objectives:

The course will cover all four skills of language learning: speaking, listening, writing and reading. It is
important to remember that all skills being an integral part of the language should be developed
systematically. By the end of the course, you will be able to use English more confidently in both
academic settings and everyday situations.

The main objective of the course is to enable the language learners to use English as a means of
communication. The course will help the students to take an active role in exchanging the information and
get easily involved in the conversation, produce written assignments, comprehend listening materials, to
develop fluency and strategies for language learning. The course will also provide the students with some
important skills necessary for their future professional life as well as the education.

Throughout the course, you will listen to and watch audio and video materials both inside and outside the
classroom and will be expected to respond to and interact with these in a variety of ways, such as by
answering questions, taking notes, or by giving your own opinions.

Speaking activities which will include presentations, debates, or group discussions will give you the
opportunity to practice spontaneous speech. Through these speaking activities, you will improve both
your confidence and the fluency of your speech, while practicing new vocabulary.

Students will be expected to do authentic readings. You will do different activities and presentations on
reading assignments. You will learn strategies to read efficiently, define the main meaning and do critical
analysis of the readings. Readings will be based on your professional interest and your field of study as
well.

Students will learn to develop writing skills. You will be taught how to organise your writing, edit it and
give feedback to your peers. Some tasks on academic writing strategies will be implemented as well.
Students will be assigned different activities on writing in class and outside the class.
Course policies:

Attendance at all classes is compulsory. Late arrivals will be marked as an absence. Students are
expected to come ready to the class and participate in all class activities. The students are responsible for
their misbehaviour in class. Mobile phones have to be turned off during the lesson. The students are
expected to respect each other as well as their instructor. Deadlines are not negotiable.

Contact Information:

Teachers and students will be using email as a primary source of communication. All important
information will be communicated with you through email. Please, therefore, make sure that you check
your email account regularly. You will also be expected throughout the academic year to write emails.
Please present your email in a proper way. Always include the subject of your email.

Grading Scale

A = 91-100 B = 81 – 90 C = 71 – 80 D = 61- 70

Excellent Very Good Good Satisfactory

E = 51-60 F = 51

Unsatisfactory Bad
Grading criteria
Assignments Value

Attendance 10

Independent Project 10

Speaking Project 10

Assessment I 10

Assessment II 10

Final Exams
50%

TOTAL 100%

Attendance: 10 points

According to attendance policy, you must attend all classes. Failure to do so will result in the deduction of
points from the Attendance that is worth 10 points of your final grade.  You must arrive at the lesson on
time to avoid disruption of the class. If you leave the class without permission or do not return to class,
you will be marked as absent. In compliance with Azerbaijani legislation, instructors are required to
monitor attendance and inform the Dean’s office when the students miss classes. Azerbaijani legislation
mandates that the students who fail to attend 75% of classes will fail the course. If you miss 25 percent of
classes, you will be considered to have failed the course. If the student leaves the class and does not return
after 5 minutes, he will get absent. Moreover, significant amount of absences will result in lower
participation grade.

Participation:10 points

Actively participate in class/group discussions/answer the questions/give feedback to peers

Complete your homework
Be prepared for class
Listen to your peers and cooperate with them, do not interrupt
Speak English during the lesson
Foster positive learning environment
Meet the deadlines of the assignments
Do no distract others and be respectful to your friends and teacher
Do not lie, do not cheat
Do not use phone or any other digital device without permission of the teacher
You are not allowed to make any recordings in the class without teacher’s permission
Speaking Project: 10 points

Throughout the course you will do different speaking activities (debates, pair work, role plays,
presentations) you will be assessed on 1 speaking task as a final speaking project. Your teacher will
assign you a topic and you will prepare either group or individual presentation. Presentations might be
based on your major of study.

Assessment I: 10 points

During the session you will do different listening activities. Some of them will be based on your
coursebook and some will come from authentic sources. You will be graded on one of those assignments
to check your listening ability.

Assessment II: 10 points

Assessment II will cover vocabulary and grammar. The session will cover different thematic topics
where you will learn new vocabulary. You will also be responsible for learning some academic
vocabulary or vocabulary related to your major of study.

Final Exam: 50 points

The exams will be comprehensive and cover everything what was taught during the term.

Required Coursebooks:

North Star 3 Reading and Writing Laurie Barton Carolyn Dupaquier 4th edition

North Star 3 Listening and Speaking Laurie Barton Carolyn Dupaquier 4th edition

Supplementary:

 English Vocabulary in Use McCarthy, O'Dell, Cambridge University Press

 Internet based reading assignments /authentic listening from YouTube and Ted Talks
 Academic Vocabulary: Academic Words Amy E. Olsen
Course Objectives Intermediate Level:

 Listening: Students will learn how to predict the content, listen for main ideas and details, listen
between the lines and infer the meaning. Understand different levels of formality, distinguish the
argument and details and be able to give a short summary. Use appropriate functions to keep the
conversation going. Infer attitudes about accents from statements or emotions. Listen to
understand the speaker’s emotions. Identify opinion about accents. Identify contrasting
viewpoints in the listening. Differ the factual information from the opinion.

 Speaking : Speculate about the content of the units, express and defend opinion about identity
theft, offer advice for identity theft prevention, conduct role play, interview or hold a debate and
share personal opinion about crime, agree or disagree with the statements, lead a group
discussion, talk about solutions of the problem, present a plan to improve English, talk about
tourist destinations, discuss the pros and cons of tourism, hypothesize possible outcomes, make
suggestions, agree or disagree with statements using appropriate functions, relate personal goals
to future aspirations, outline an issue, hypothesize causes and outcomes, participate in simulations

 Reading: students will make and confirm predictions, identify main ideas and different types of
supporting details, scan and skim the text to understand the chronology, to locate specific
chronology, follow chronological sequence in a reading, categorize information from two texts,
identify the detailed examples, read critically, think critically and apply critical reading skills,
make inferences based on comprehension of the text, discuss and respond to the content of the
text orally and in writing, develop theme based vocabulary.

 Writing: students will identify correct paragraph structure, write a paragraph telling a story,
master the organization of writing; introduction, body, conclusion. Identify the thesis statement,
topic sentences, and supporting details in a text, evaluate effective supporting details, write an
opinion essay, use transitions of contrast to introduce a counter argument, write a contrast
paragraph with supporting details.

 Grammar: The lessons will cover the following grammar: modals of advice, future predictions
with if clauses, comparison of adverbs. Students will learn how to use targeted grammatical
structures meaningfully and appropriately, recognize modals of advice and understand their
function and correct use, use the appropriate modals to ask and give advice, learn about if in
predictions , make predictions about the future using the if-clause, use the correct form and
meaning of adverb comparison.
 This is a tentative syllabus schedule, changes will be discussed and announced in the class.
Week Date Topic Hours

1 Listening and Speaking: Unit 2 Fraud 6

Focus on the Topic: Avoiding Identity Theft
Listening1: Lily’s Story
Listening 2: Public Service Announcement
Listening for main ideas/ details/make and confirm
predictions
pp.29-36
Additional on major of study.

2 Listening and Speaking: Unit 2 Fraud 6

Focus on Speaking and Vocabulary: Avoiding Identity
Theft
Ask for advice, apply strategies to keep conversation
going.
Create and dramatize a story about and experience with
crime. Unit Project/ Alternative Speaking topics
pp.39-41pp.45-49
Grammar: Modal Verbs
pp.42-43
Additional on major of study.
3 6
Reading and Writing: Unit 2 Fraud
Focus on the Topic: The consequences of Fraud
Reading 1: Catch me if You Can; The Frank
Abagnale Story
Reading 2: The Michelle Brown Story:Identity Theft
Reading for details/making inferences/recognizing
details/scanning:
pp. 25-34

Additional on major of study.

4 Reading and Writing : Unit 2 Fraud 6

Writing: identifying topic sentences
Writing a paragraph and story.
Alternative Writing topics
pp.41-47

Additional on major of study.

5 Consolidation of the Units 6
Assessment Week

Listening and Speaking: Unit 4 Language 6

6 Focusing on the Topic: Words That Persuade
Listening1: Corporate Euphemisms
Listening 2: House Hunting
Listening for main ideas/details/make and confirm
predictions
pp. 79-85

Additional on major of study.

7 Listening and Speaking: Unit 4 Language 6

Focus on Speaking and Vocabulary: Words That
Persuade
Express a point of view/use language strategies to appeal
to emotions/create and advertise a persuasive
advertisement
pp. 90-94
pp.98-103

Additional on major of study.

8 Reading and writing: Unit 4 Language 6

Focus on Topic: Language and Power
Reading 1: Men, Women, and Language
Reading 2: The questions of Global English
Make and confirm predictions/identify the main
ideas/identify supporting details /scan
pp.75-83
Additional on major of study.

9 Reading and Writing: Unit 4 Language 6

Focus on Writing: Language and Power
Writing: Contrast Paragraph
93-96
Writing: Unit Project or Alternative Writing Topics
pp. 98-99
Grammar: Comparative Adverbs
pp.91-92
Additional on major of study.
 Consolidation of the Units 6
Assessment Week
10

Listening and Speaking : Unit 6 Tourism 6

11 Focus on the Topic: Culture and Commerce
Listening 1: Tourist Attraction or Human Zoo
Listening 2: Town Hall Meeting in Cape Cod
Listening for details/main idea/ make and confirm
predictions
pp.129-139

Additional on major of study.

12 Listening and Speaking : Unit 6 Culture and 6

Commerce:
Focus on Speaking and Vocabulary:
Create/ Debate/ Alternative Speaking topics
Evaluate and debate the effects of tourism
Participate in a simulation, Defend and Support Proposal
pp.140-142
Grammar:Future Predictions
pp. 142-144, 147-153

Additional on major of study.

13 Reading and Writing: Unit 6 Tourism 6

Focus on the Topic: What is Ecotourism
Reading 1. Tourist in a Fragile Land
Reading 2: A Travel Journal
Reading for details/main idea/ make and confirm
predictions/scan
pp.129-139
Additional on major of study.

Reading and Writing: Unit 6 Tourism

14 Focus on Writing: What is Ecotourism?
Identify a thesis statement, topic sentence, supporting 6
details
Write an Opinion Essay with an introduction, body, and
conclusion
pp. 147-151
Additional on major of study.
 15 Review of all Units 6
Preparation for Final Exams

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Müəllim: f.f.d., b.m., Ömərova Gülsərən Hamlet qızı

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