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Foreign language - English IV - OPMN0A193B
Title: Foreign language – English IV
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2023
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / 96 (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. Veronika Gajdošíková
Pre-requisite : OPMN0A189B
Is pre-requisite for: OPMN0A197B, OPMN0A198B
Is interchangeable with: OKMN0A193B
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

přímá výuka (24 hodin), plnění průběžných úkolů (16 hodin), příprava na zkoušku (20 hodin)

Last update: Gajdošíková Veronika, Mgr. (16.02.2025)
Course completion requirements -

80% attendance, active participation, writing (TBD)

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

Obligatory literature (pre-int. level):

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

- Student's Book and Ebook with Online Practice

 

Obligatory literature (int. level):

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

- Student's Book and Ebook with Online Practice

 

Recommended literature (both levels):

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

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.

McCARTHY, M.; O’DELL, F. English Collocations in Use. Cambridge: CUP, 2005. ISBN-10 0-521-60378-1.

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

SWAN, M. Practical English Usage. Oxford: OUP, 2005. ISBN-13: 978-0194420983.

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 (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-INERMEDIATE

Week 1: Why do you think that?

Week 2: Why do you think that?

Week 3: An artist at work

Week 4: Good tourists

Week 5: Good tourists

Week 6: Globetrotters

Week 7: Globetrotters

Week 8: Written assignment

Week 9: You must see

Week 10: You must see

Week 11: Go solo?

Week 12: Semester recap

INTERMEDIATE

Week 1: Here's my advice

Week 2: Here's my advice

Week 3: Would I lie to you?

Week 4: An unexpected passion

Week 5: An unexpected passion

Week 6: I wish!

Week 7: I wish!

Week 8: Written assignment

Week 9: Let me explain

Week 10: Let me explain

Week 11: Hard work or talent?

Week 12: Semester Recap

Last update: Gajdošíková Veronika, Mgr. (16.02.2025)
 
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