Download - Nantes M1 Meraud
Course principles
• Personal attention : no student left behind
• Teamwork
• End of ‘banking model’ of education
• Flipped classroom
• Environment
Julie Méraud
University of Sheffield UK EdD (2017)
University of Hong Kong Bachelor’s and Master’s
Lived in UK, Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines, France
Business experience - Unilever, Exxon, marketing, corporate training
Legal experience - 5 years - Supreme Court HK, court reporter
20 years’ teaching/training experience; Diploma in TESOL
interests: human rights, the environment and animal rights, language learning, jazz, Canadian literature and music
The M1 course aims
By the end of this course you:
will be able to write a well-structured English essay without plagiarising
will have made a clear and interesting presentation with a small group
will have a model CV and application letter to use to get a job or internship
will have practised a job interview in English
will have identified any individual pronunciation or grammar difficulties and
have a strategy for improving
will have boosted your legal and work English vocabulary by at least 50
new expressions
will have learned three new strategies to improve your listening skills and
five new expressions for agreeing, disagreeing and negotiating
Course plan
Lesson 1 Introductions
Lesson 2 The limits of freedom of expression (Charlie Hebdo) / student presentation
Lesson 3 Personal branding (securing an internship or job) / student presentation
Lesson 4 Sports and the law (Oscar Pistorius) / student presentation
Lesson 5 Modern-day slavery and human trafficking / student presentation
Course plan
Lesson 6 The beginnings of democracy – 800 years of the Magna Carta / student presentation
Lesson 7 Canada’s dirty secret (the Alberta oil sands) / student presentation
Lesson 8 The sharing economy / student presentation
Lesson 9 In-class essay exam
Lesson 10 Feedback on exam and course summary
Assessment
20% Listening test
20% Essay test
20% Presentation
20% Homework essay
20% Collective role play
ONE absence without justification is permitted
TWO absences without justification - minus 10%
Level check
Listen to Richard Bailey talking about his experience as a clerk (intern) in different law firms.
List the ADVANTAGES and DISADVANTAGES of doing a clerkship (internship), according to Richard, in LARGE and SMALL firms.
No need to write in complete sentences
You will hear the recording TWICE
Then write 200 words (complete sentences) about your own experience of doing an internship. If you haven’t done one, explain whether you would prefer to get work experience in a large or a small firm or somewhere else.
Getting to know you
Find three things you have in common with the people in your small group
Discuss any questions you have about the course and designate a secretary to note your ideas
Discuss if there is anything in particular you would like us to do/NOT to do on this course
Agree on a current topic (law, education, life) that would make for a good debate, eg, ‘freedom of speech should not be limited’