English language 1

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Naděžda Němcová (gar.), Eva Poncová, Jitka Procházková

Supervisor:

Department of Languages

Synopsis:

The course revises general English from previous studies, further develops speking skills, listening and recalling spoken English as well as note taking skills. Provides basic scientific terminology(cause-effect relatioship,definitions, classification, basic information on composing written documents).

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

Syllabus of tutorials:

Week1. Introduction, revision of grammar, Text to Note; Functions 2. Present perfect tense x past tense

reading skills-skimming, scanning

listening for specific information

3. Present perfect continuous, irregular verbs,

Academic writing course U 1 -Structure and cohesion

4.Accusative and infinitive construction, Nominative and infinitive constr.

Past continuous tense,

Listening - The classification pattern

5.Past perfect tense;

Passive voice; AWC- U 2, Process and procedure

listening for gist, controlled note taking

6.Indirect speech,

AWC U3,

Listening; The classification pattern- cont.

7.Conditional clauses- all types,

AWC U5- Definitions, listening- The definition pattern, listening- The chronological pattern,

9.Adverbial clauses of time, So/Neither do I,

Listening The chronological pattern continue,

10.Gerunds , participles

listening- The cause and effect pattern,

AWC 6 Exemplification

11.Clauses of concession, construction 'have st. done'

Making presentations- general guidelines

12. Clauses of purpose, Making presentations cont.

AWC 7 Classification, comparison, contrast

13. Systematic revision

14.Test

Study Objective:

Study materials:

Zábojová, Peprník: Angličtina pro jazykové školy II

R. Jordan: Academic Writing Course

P. Dunkel: Intermediate Listening Comprehension (Understanding and recalling spoken English) other materials

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue	roomZ2:B1-408 Němcová N. 16:15–17:45 (parallel nr.101) Zikova ulice Poslucharna
Fri	roomZ2:B1-353 Němcová N. 12:45–14:15 (parallel nr.101) Zikova ulice Konzultacka K304
Thu
Fri

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Doctoral studies, daily studies (compulsory elective course)
• Doctoral studies, combined studies (compulsory elective course)
• Doctoral studies, structured daily studies (compulsory elective course)
• Doctoral studies, structured combined studies (compulsory elective course)