Title: Ideas for the teacher
Course: Study PrepProg English for My International Studies and Career

This course can be taught in many different ways, so here are some things we did during the first implementation:

2 * 2,5h meetings/week. See schedule on the front page. This is not a necessity, but the students enjoyed the meetings and were able to get a lot of speaking practice in them.

During the latter part of the course, one of the online meetings focused on students reading articles about current issues and then discussing them in breakout rooms in the meeting. This worked very well, the students got both the speaking practice and the vocabulary at the same time.

The students had one larger task which was given on the first lecture and which continued throughout the course: they had to interview at least 3 non-Finns, who had got jobs in Finland. What kind of education/work experience/language skills were needed and so on. The students wrote a report about this and gave a short presentation, too. Despite being a bit more work, the task seemed to be well-received.

Other things covered:
* Job applications & interviews
* Small talk
* Giving a presentation
* Review of report writing
* How to work in a multicultural workplace

The materials were opened as we covered them, so the whole course was not open at the beginning of the course.