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English language I - OPMN0A209B
Title: Jazyková cvičení AJ I
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, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / 18 (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: Mgr. Jakub Ženíšek, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Bernadette Higgins, M.A.
Pre-requisite : OPMN0A198B
Is pre-requisite for: OPMN0A226B, OPMN0A213B
Annotation -
Last update: Mgr. Jakub Ženíšek, Ph.D. (01.02.2022)
The aim of the course is to develop students' foreign language communicative competence from the expected B2 entry level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages to level B2+. Students' speaking, reading comprehension, listening comprehension and writing skills are systematically worked on and developed, with increasing emphasis on accuracy, fluency and complexity of language expression.
Descriptors - Czech
Last update: Mgr. Kristýna Červinková Poesová, Ph.D. (08.02.2022)

přímá výuka (24 hodin), plnění průběžných úkolů (18 hodin), vypracování esejí (6 hodin), příprava ústní prezentace (2 hodiny), příprava na zápočet (10 hodin)

Literature -
Last update: Mgr. Kristýna Červinková Poesová, Ph.D. (08.02.2022)

Primary coursework:

WILDMAN, J.; BEDDALL, F. Insight Upper-Intermediate Student’s Book. Oxford: OUP, 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-401109-9.

ROBERTS, R.; SAYER, M. Insight Upper-Intermediate Workbook. Oxford: OUP, 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-401114-3.

Recommended literature:

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

Oxford Collocations Dictionary for students of English. Oxford: OUP, 2009. ISBN 978 0 19 4325387.

Collins Cobuild Phrasal Verbs Dictionary. Glasgow: Harper Collins Publishers, 2006. ISBN 0-00-713402-9.

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

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

McCARTHY, M.; O’DELL, F. English Collocations in Use. Advanced. Cambridge: CUP, 2008. ISBN 978-0-521-70780-0.

McCARTHY, M.; O’DELL, F. English Phrasal Verbs in Use. Advanced. Cambridge: CUP, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0521684187.

SEELY, J. Oxford A-Z of Grammar and Punctuation. Oxford: OUP, 2013 (2nd revised edition). ISBN 9780199564675.

SWAN, M.; BAKER, D. Grammar Scan. Oxford: OUP, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-442274-1.

Syllabus -
Last update: Mgr. Kristýna Červinková Poesová, Ph.D. (08.02.2022)

Main topics:

grammar - past perfect and past perfect conditional, future tenses: future continuous, future perfect, future perfect continuous, future time clauses

vocabulary - urban regeneration, nouns and prepositions, adjective suffixes, words with self

everyday English - describing qualities, analysing and choosing a project, describing places

Course completion requirements -
Last update: Mgr. Kristýna Červinková Poesová, Ph.D. (08.02.2022)

The course is based on active participation of students in seminars (1-2 absences are tolerated). 

The final credit test covers: listening, reading, use of English (grammar, vocabulary) and writing. The minimum pass percentage is 70%.

The student will be required to present two written papers of 200 words and one oral presentation during the semester.

 
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