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Foreign language - English II - OPMN0A185B
Title: Cizí jazyk – angličtina II
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2023
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/4, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / 85 (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: Mgr. Kristýna Červinková Poesová, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Ivana Jančovičová
Mgr. Barbora Müller Dočkalová
Mgr. Tomáš Nechanský
Mgr. Jakub Ženíšek, Ph.D.
Pre-requisite : OPMN0A181B
Is pre-requisite for: OPMN0A189B, OPMN0A354C, OPMN0A350C
Is interchangeable with: OKMN0A185B
Annotation -
In this course it is systematically worked with the texbook Speakout 3rd Edition published by Pearson to develop 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: Červinková Poesová Kristýna, Mgr., Ph.D. (29.01.2024)
Aim of the course -
The aim of the course is to develop foreign language communicative competence of students at the offered levels B1, B1+, B2, and B2+ according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Last update: Červinková Poesová Kristýna, Mgr., Ph.D. (11.02.2025)
Descriptors - Czech

přímá výuka (48 hodin), plnění průběžných úkolů (30 hodin), vypracování písemného úkolu (6 hodin), příprava ústní prezentace (4 hodiny), příprava na zkoušku (20 hodin), samostudium (12 hodin)

Last update: Červinková Poesová Kristýna, Mgr., Ph.D. (07.02.2022)
Course completion requirements -

80% attendance (at most 4 absences);  a piece of writing (150 - 300 words); oral task/prepared talk

Last update: Červinková Poesová Kristýna, Mgr., Ph.D. (29.01.2024)
Literature -

Obligatory literature (int. level):

Clare, Antonia., and J. J. Wilson. Speakout B2Student´s Book and eBook with Online Practice. Pearson. 3rd ed., Pearson, 2023. ISBN: 9781292359540.

Warwick, Paul, and Susan Dignen. Speakout B2+. Student's Book and eBook with Online Practice. 3rd ed., Pearson, 2023. ISBN: 9781292407470

Obligatory literature (pre-int. level):

Clare, Antonia., and J. J. Wilson. Speakout B1Student´s Book and eBook with Online Practice. 3rd ed., Pearson. 2023. ISBN: 9781292359533.

Clare, Antonia, Frances Eales, Alan J. Wilson, and Steve Oakes. Speakout B1+. Student's Book and eBook with Online Practice. 3rd ed., Pearson, 2023. ISBN: 9781292407463.

Recommended literature (for both levels):

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.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/

https://www.helpforenglish.cz/

Last update: Červinková Poesová Kristýna, Mgr., Ph.D. (11.02.2025)
Requirements to the exam -

written exam - grammar, vocabulary, listening and reading comprehension (pass = 65%; 2 resits)

Last update: Červinková Poesová Kristýna, Mgr., Ph.D. (29.01.2024)
Syllabus -

Pre-intermediate:

B1

GRAMMAR: prepositions of time; question forms; future plans and intentions; polite inquiries; phrasal verbs; modal verbs for rules and advice; articles; present perfect; superlatives

VOCABULARY: collocations with get and make; knowledge; decisions; facilities (places in the city); success; technology collocations; sports and games

B1+

GRAMMAR:

VOCABULARY:

Intermediate:

B2

GRAMMAR: how to speculate, defining relative clauses, do and did for emphasis, future continuous, passives

VOCABULARY: lifestyle adjectives, extreme adjectives, enterteinment, environment, illness and treatment, phrases related to time

B2+

GRAMMAR: how to compare and evaluate ideas; as if/as though, no matter, how to engage with other people´s views, uses of should, continuous aspect, how to steer a conversation towards a topic

VOCABULARY: business, competition and challenge, inspiration, fanfiction, idioms - emotions, persuading and motivating, role models, selfie-expression, photography, advertising, abilities and experience

Last update: Červinková Poesová Kristýna, Mgr., Ph.D. (11.02.2025)
 
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