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English for Journalism and Mass Communication I - JLB009
Title: Angličtina pro žur. a MK I
Guaranteed by: Centre for Language Learning and Pedagogical Training (23-KJP)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2008 to 2009
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/3, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)Schedule is not published yet, this information might be misleading.
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Marie Červinková
Class: Courses for incoming students
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download ZZZ English for Journalists credit test task samples.pdf credit test task samples Mgr. Alena Prošková
Annotation -
The course is designed for students of journalism studying for their BA or MA degree. It is focused on work with newspaper/mazazine/online articles and audio or video pieces coming from a wide range of mass media. The objective of the course is to expand students' vocabulary in terms of journalistic jargon and terminology related to news reporting, to improve students' speaking and writing skills, and to achieve accuracy in grammatical structures and pronunciation.
The study materials used in the classes are solely for the use of the students of the JLB009 course. Any circulation of the materials is prohibited.

Students who need B2 grammar practice as well as an introduction into the
more specialized vocabulary of journalistic English, as well as basic English academic skills, are offered the lower course of English for Social Sciences I (JLB
053) in the winter term and English for Social Sciences II (JLB 054) in
the summer term, Tuesday 17-18.20 in #110 room of the Hollar building.

https://fsv.cuni.cz/studium/vyuka-jazyku/hodnoceni-jazykove-dovednosti
Last update: Prošková Alena, Mgr. (10.09.2024)
Aim of the course -

The course is designed to considerably improve reading and listening comprehension of English in mass media while, at the same time, substantially enhancing students' own professional spoken and written English for usage in mass media.

Last update: Prošková Alena, Mgr. (10.09.2024)
Literature -

R. Murphy: English Grammar In Use

Donald Ferguson, Jim Patten - Journalism Today

Materiály /s výjimkou gramatiky/ u vyučující

Doporučená literatura:

Anglický výkladový slovník - upřesnění v úvodní hodině

Česko-anglický překladový slovník " " "

Anglicko-český překladový slovník " " "

Britské a americké deníky a časopisy / Newsweek, The Economist, The Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times

www:

www.economist.com

www.ft.com

www.cnn.com

www.bbc.com

www.praguepost.com

www.praguemonitor.com

www.fsfinalword.com

Last update: PROSKOVA (04.09.2012)
Teaching methods -

English learning and language development will be based on classroom discussion, debates, workshops, seminars and facilitated sessions. The teacher will frequently be in the role of facilitator but this task will also be assigned to students working in groups in various sessions. There is a heavy emphasis on oral communication in this course.

Reading assignments will be given and the texts will be used as the basis of in-class discussions and vocabulary work. There will be emphasis on using appropriate phrasal verbs, collocations and idioms in an attempt to instil a naturalness in the students' English skills.

Students will participate in a variety of learning methods in a mixture of dynamics - individual, pair work, working in larger groups, full class sessions.

Last update: PROSKOVA (18.09.2012)
Requirements to the exam -

MGR.MARIE ČERVINKOVÁ

THE CREDIT REQUIREMENTS: Two essays

MGR.ALENA PROŠKOVÁ

THE CREDIT REQUIREMENTS:

1. To obtain the credit, students are required to prepare for seminars

(home reading), to actively participate in lessons, and to pass the

mid-term test and the end-term credit test covering language crucial to the

field of journalism.

2. Students may decide not to attend the course. They must, however,

take both written tests and give one major oral presentation in the

class. It is the students' responsibility to see the teacher to set

topics and dates of presentations.

Mgr.Prošková's CREDIT TEST: Points - 60, time limit - 60 minutes, pass level - 65%.

Credit test task samples: Please see the attached file in SOUBORY for details.

Last update: PROSKOVA (04.09.2012)
Syllabus -

MGR.MARIE ČERVINKOVÁ
Tématické okruhy:
1. Malá a velká nakladatelství - vyhlídky
2. Mezinárodní soud v Haagu - mezinárodní tribunál pro válečné zločiny
3. Malířství, Sotheby's
4. Média a politika /pohled zkušeného novináře/
5. Jeruzalém - židé, křesťané a muslimové
6. Funkce médií
7. Bulvár a jeho objekty - začarovaný kruh; hranice zodpovědnosti
8. "Zpráva" - charakteristika pojmu
Případně další témata, podle časových dispozic
Gramatika - důraz na obtížnější kategorie:
časy, modální slovesa, nepravidelný plurál u slov cizího původu

MGR.ALENA PROŠKOVÁ
Seminar contents:

1 Shape of the world - changes for the better or for the worse?
headline English = headlinese

2 A Life in Journalism: Alistair Cooke                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          political cartoons                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 interviewing techniques                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             discourse markers

3 Human Rights                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  newspaper terms
vocabulary of elections

4 Free speech, censorship. Press freedoms and reporters' rights.
effective note-taking
reporting verbs, indirect speech

5 Journalistic objectivity - bias or balance
vocabulary of elections

6 Press freedoms and reporters' rights                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Newseum in Washington, D.C.

7 Journalistic objectivity - bias or balance                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      vocabulary of economics

8 Journalism ethics
CNN iReport.

9 Writing and editing an article                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               vocabulary of conflict

10 Career connections: V.J., Anchor, Investigative reporter.

11 Sustainable Development

12 Brave journalists (Politkovskaja, Saberi...)

 

Last update: PROSKOVA (03.10.2011)
Entry requirements -

B2 level; see the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages at http://kjp.fsv.cuni.cz/KJP - 10.html.

Last update: PROSKOVA (04.09.2012)
 
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