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Foreign language - English IV - OKMN0A193B
Title: Foreign language – English IV
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2021
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/0, Ex [HT]
Extent per academic year: 8 [hours]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: combined
Additional information: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=5851
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Mgr. Kristýna Červinková Poesová, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Veronika Gajdošíková
Pre-requisite : OKMN0A189B
Interchangeability : OPMN0A193B
Is pre-requisite for: OKMN0A197B
Annotation -
This course systematically develops students' oral, listening, reading and writing skills as well as grammar and vocabulary. The overall aim is to help students become more confident and fluent users of the English language. The course is offered in two language levels, pre-intermediate and intermediate.
Last update: Gajdošíková Veronika, Mgr. (16.02.2025)
Aim of the course -
The aim of the course is to develop students' communicative competence and improve their anticipated language level (from A1/A2 to A1+/A2+ for the lower level and to B1+ for the higher language level).
Last update: Gajdošíková Veronika, Mgr. (16.02.2025)
Descriptors - Czech

60 hodin studijní zátěže celkem

  • přímá výuka - 8 hodin
  • plnění průběžných úkolů - 21 hodin
  • vypracování požadavků ke zkoušce - 5 hodin
  • příprava na zkoušku - 13 hodin
  • samostudium - 13 hodin
Last update: Gajdošíková Veronika, Mgr. (16.02.2025)
Course completion requirements -
80% attendance (one absence allowed), active participation, a piece of writing (TBD)
Last update: Gajdošíková Veronika, Mgr. (16.02.2025)
Literature -

Povinná literatura (mírně pokročilí):

Claire, Antonia & JJ Wilson. Speakout 3rd Edition B1.Pearson Education Limited, 2022.

- Student's Book and Ebook with Online Practice

Povinná literatura (středně pokročilí):

Claire, Antonia & JJ Wilson. Speakout 3rd Edition B2.Pearson Education Limited, 2022.

- Student's Book and Ebook with Online Practice

 

Doporučená literatura (obě jazykové úrovně):

Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. 8th ed. Oxford: OUP ELT, 2010. ISBN 0194799123.

Oxford Collocations Dictionary for students of English. Oxford: OUP, 2009. ISBN 978 0 19 4325387.
AYTO, J. Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms. Oxford: OUP, 2010 (3rd ed.). ISBN 978-0-19-431287-5.

McCARTHY, M.; O’DELL, F. English Collocations in Use. Cambridge: CUP, 2005. ISBN-10 0-521-60378-1.
SWAN, M. Practical English Usage. Oxford: OUP, 2005. ISBN-13: 978-0194420983.

Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English. Oxford: OUP, 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-433350-4.

www.oup.com/elt/insight

www.bbc.com
www.usatoday.comwww.independent.co.uk

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/

http://www.helpforenglish.cz/ 

Last update: Gajdošíková Veronika, Mgr. (16.02.2025)
Requirements to the exam -

The course will cover each of the following 5 areas, and in the final exam, each one carries a mark of up to 20%.

These areas are:

  • Use of English (grammar and vocabulary covered in the course)
  • Reading
  • Listening
  • Writing (100-150 words)
  • Speaking (1-2 minutes, topics specified in class)

A final mark of at least 65% is required for a PASS.

In the event of a fail, the students will be offered two more opportunities to take the exam.

Last update: Gajdošíková Veronika, Mgr. (16.02.2025)
Syllabus -

PRE-INTERMEDIATE

Week 1: Why do you think that? An artist at work

Week 2:Globetrotters

Week 3: Good tourists, You must see

Week 4: Go solo? Semester recap

INTERMEDIATE

Week 1: Here's my advice, Would I lie to you?

Week 2: An unexpected passion, I wish!

Week 3: Let me explain,

Week 4 Hard work or talent?, Semester Recap

Last update: Gajdošíková Veronika, Mgr. (16.02.2025)
 
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