Intensive English Course
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| A0B04IA | Z | 0 | 4s |
- Lecturer:
- Tutor:
- Pavla Péterová, Eva Poncová
- Supervisor:
- Department of Languages
- Synopsis:
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The course is designed for the students of Information Technology to improve their English so that they would be able to pass Intermediate Exam successfully.
- Requirements:
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placement test
- Syllabus of lectures:
- Syllabus of tutorials:
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WEEK 1
i. Introduction, Requirements, Materials
Reading: Czech Technical University
ii. Revision of tense, teacher?s materials
WEEK 2
i.Text: Former Student
Language focus : Revision, Questions
Listening for specific information
ii.Operating systems
-ing form as noun and after prepositions
WEEK 3
i. Graphical User Interfaces
verbs +object + infin (to infin)
allow, enable, help, permit
ii.Reading for general gist,T/F exercise
Providing explanations,writing paragraphs
WEEK 4
i. Applications Programs
Instructions and complex instructions
ii. Text:Multimedia
Language focus: ing clauses, cause-effect
Describing a process, providing explanations
WEEK 5
i. Text: Interview:Computing Support Officer
Language focus If -sentences,types 1 and 2
Listening matching diagrams, giving instructions
ii. Text: Networks
Language focus: Relative clauses with a participle /past and present; ing, ed/
Writing :describing advantages and disadvantages
Specialist reading: Network communications
WEEK 6
i. The World Wide Web,
Language focus: Time clauses
Listening: Information transfer, listening and note taking
ii. Communications systems
Predictions,certainty expressions
WEEK 7
i. Computing Support
Diagnosing a fault and giving advice
ii. Data Security 1
Cause and effect (to make), causative verbs
WEEK 8
i. Data Security 2
Cause and effect using allow and prevent links
ii. Interview The ex-hackers, Phrasal verbs
Listening for specific information
WEEK 9
i. Text: Recent Developments in IT, Licence to chill, Smart fabrics
Reading and note-taking, comparing different versions of a text
Listening for points of view,Writing a report
ii. Text: Recent Developments (continue)
Languages focus : Modals /ability can,could be able to/
Specialist reading:Bluetooth; matching, T/F exercises
WEEK 10
i. Text: The Future of IT
Language focus:Predictions, Future perfect
ii. The Future of IT (continue)
Listening for points of view
Reading and note-taking, Specialist reading :Futures
It in subject positions
WEEK 11
i. Video MIT lectures
ii. Video
Week 12
i. Text: Advertising Standards
Reading for general gist
ii. Grammar packet
Revising
WEEK 13
i. Final Test
ii. Final Test Checking, Zápočty
Requirements:
Aktivní účast na hodinách, práce na domácí přípravě
65% z Final and progress tests
Note:The teacher is authorised to adjust the units depending on the level of his/her class
Sources: Eric C. Glendenning, John McEwan: Oxford English for Information Technology, OUP 2007, Santiago Remacha Esteras, Elena Marco Fabre: Professional English in Use for Computers and the Internet, CUP 2007 , Keith Boeckner, P.Ch. Brown, Oxford English for Computing, OUP 2001,onestopenglish.com, Raymond Murphy: English Grammar in Use, English Grammar Set A1 (http://jazyky.feld.cvut.cz)
- Study Objective:
- Study materials:
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Eric C.Glendenning, John Mc Ewan: Oxford English for Information Technology, OUP 2007, Santiago Remacha Esteras,Elena Marco Fabre:Professional English for Computers and the Internet,CUP 2007,Keith Boeckner,P.Ch.Brown:Oxford English for Computing,OUP 2001,onestopenglish.com,Raymond Murphy:English Grammar in Use, English Grammmar Set A1
- Note:
- Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:
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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 Fri Thu Fri - Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:
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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 Fri Thu Fri - The course is a part of the following study plans: