CANG9230 : B2_Blogging Your Internship/Semester Abroad

Content

This course is for students who are away from the ENS during the 2nd semester and need to maintain their B2-level or B2+-level English. During this course, you will write and edit four blog posts about your experiences abroad/ in your internship. The aim of this course is to help you keep writing in English in a way that complements the work and/or studies you are involved in outside of the ENS.

You will also post your edited blogs for your classmates and other students to read. By sharing your blog posts with your classmates, you will contribute to their English learning.
 

Teaching method

This course is entirely online, and has no video-conferencing component. Instead, you will watch videos and read texts that help you produce blog posts and/or learn grammar and vocabulary, and receive detailed recorded feedback from your teacher about your work, which you should listen to and make notes about. Both the original and edited blog posts count towards your final grade. Finally, there will be automatically-marked grammar and vocabulary exercises for you to work on independently, though these exercises will not count towards your final grade.

There are three 'cycles' of three weeks, and each cycle follows this pattern: 

1. Write and submit a blog post on a general topic (e.g. 'planning my semester abroad', 'finding an internship', 'making friends in new places', 'struggles with bureaucracy', etc.).
2. Listen to your teacher's feedback about your blog post, then edit and resubmit the blog post.
3. Listen to your teacher's feedback about your edited blog post and comment on your classmate's blog posts, then complete the grammar and vocabulary exercises that correspond to the main mistakes that you made.