English Language 2-1
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y04A2Z | Z | 3 | 2s | Czech |
- Lecturer:
- Tutor:
- Jitka Procházková (gar.), Alan Harvey Cook, Alena Havlíčková, Markéta Havlíčková, Naděžda Němcová, Irena Petra Nováková, Pavla Péterová, Eva Poncová, Dana Saláková, Eva Vernerová
- Supervisor:
- Department of Languages
- Synopsis:
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The course is designed for students attending the bachelor´s program Software Technologies and Management, who study English as a compulsory subject and whose knowledge of English corresponds to Level B2 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Students are supposed to reach Level C1. Course objective: The course focuses on consolidating communicative skills, covering selected topic-related technical texts and practising difficult grammar points.
- Requirements:
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Requirements for „zápočet“
Academic achievement - students are due to:
- Take an active part in the language instruction.
- Deliver a 10-minute presentation on a selected topic.
- Meet the requirements for home assignments.
- Succeed in both the midterm and the final term tests with the success rate set at 70%.
Attendance - Students are allowed to be absent twice during the semester.
Requirements will be specified by individual teachers during the first class of the term.
Requirements for the Examination in English - Advanced Level (Y04A2) - see:
- Syllabus of lectures:
- Syllabus of tutorials:
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SYLLABUS FOR ADVANCED ENGLISH - Y04A2Z; A7B04A2Z
Winter Term 2012/2013
Materials K 13104:
-Texts and Grammar (Available at http://jazyky.feld.cvut.cz/vyuka/A/)
-English Grammar in Use; Raymond Murphy
Recommended materials:
-English Grammar in Use Supplementary Exercises; Murphy & Naylor
Week 1Introduction, General Information
How to Make a Good Presentation
Grammar: Tenses
Week 2Protecting Your Wireless Network
G: Tenses (continued)
Week 3Neural Networks
G: Questions (Direct, Indirect, Subject, Object)
G: Verb + Preposition
Week 4Hybrid Engines
G: Prepositions of Time and Place
Revision for Midterm Test
Week 5Midterm Test (60 minutes)
G: Subject - Verb Agreement
Week 6Midterm Test Evaluation
Memristor Revolution Backed by HP
G: Modal Verbs
Week 7Mixed Reality
G: Articles
Week 8Java
G: Articles (continued)
G: -ing / Infinitive Forms
Week 9How to Fit 300 DVDs on One Disc
G: Passive
Week 10Revision for Final Term Test
Week 11Final Term Test = zápočtový test
Week 12Test Evaluation
Week 13Zápočty
Requirements for „zápočet“
Academic Achievement - students are due to:
-Take an active part in the language instruction.
-Deliver a presentation on a selected topic.
-Meet the requirements for home assignments.
-Succeed in both the midterm and the final term tests with the success rate set at 70%.
Attendance - Students are allowed to be absent twice during the semester.
Requirements will be specified by individual teachers at the first lesson of the term.
- Study Objective:
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The course objective is to consolidate skills aimed at gathering information from technical texts, studying and developing topic-related vocabulary, and processing information in guided presentations.Grammar: Revision of tenses, making questions (direct, indirect, subject), modal verbs with emphasis on past modals, passives,gerunds and infinitives in complex sentences, subject-verb agreement, articles, adjectives and adverbs, verbs+prepositions, time clauses, prepositions of time and place. Reading: Topic-related technical texts, interpreting graphs and diagrams, mathematical expressions. Writing: Developing presentation skills and techniques, summarizing the content of an article, writing short essays. Vocabulary:terminology based on informatics, graphics, economics and management. Translating technical texts using monolingual and online dictionaries.
- Study materials:
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Compulsory materials:
ESP for STM students, see http://jazyky.feld.cvut.cz/vyuka/A/Y04A2Z
Recommended:
English Grammar in Use, Raymond Murphy, CUP
Advanced Grammar in Use, Martin Hewit,CUP
- 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:
- Time-table is not available yet
- The course is a part of the following study plans:
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- Společný 1. ročník (language course)
- Softwarové inženýrství (language course)
- Web a multimedia (language course)
- Manažerská informatika (language course)
- Inteligentní systémy (language course)