Georgian Cities Online Course

Online learning

Benefit: flexible timetable within each week
You should however set yourself

Course objectives

Practice of academic English at high level: definition of C1=

The course is based on a website and on a learning platform:

1) Georgian Cities website http://www.18thc-cities.paris-sorbonne.fr

The fan opens on to the introduction page

… a map of the city with hot spots on important

… descriptions of buildings with hyperlinks to the title of a

… leading to an extract of the novel

2) Homework on moodle

a guide: ‘User’s guide’
the present slideshow

in the Guide:

Key to the icons:
‘assignment’:
a paper to be

12 ‘Units’ - each corresponding to a topic (architecture, society, literature, science…)

Example

Example of a ’Unit’ on moodle (continued)

Learning objectives
Exercises to be handed

Use of Sorbonne-Université online resources: primo.sorbonne-universite.fr (password)

Some assignments require you to

Example of search in OED:

Assessment:

a) 8 ‘assignments’,
from 8 different Units of your choice, out

Assignments (ctd)

at least 300 words.
formats: *.pdf, *.doc, *.docx, *.rtf, *.odt

Works Cited

At the end of the User’s Guide, see the slideshow

b) Other exercises:
Quizzes :  answer 10 quizzes of your choice
Databases : contribute one

Criteria for grading

knowledge of the topic and accuracy
quality and level

Academic English

A ‘grammar toolkit’ is included in the User’s Guide, pointing

Grading

Each of the 8 Assignments is marked out of 20
-

Grading (continued)

b) Other exercises:
Quizzes: total of 10 Quizzes out of 20

Grading (end)
Grand total= 160+40= 200
so final mark out of 20.

Calendar

It is strongly recommended
to follow the weekly calendar corresponding to the

Look for documents!