English language 2-2

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Department of Languages

Synopsis:

The course is designed for students who study the English language as a major program 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, practising difficult grammar points and covering selected fields of technical communication.

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The course objective is to practise acquired grammar concepts, consolidate communicative skills with an emphasis on accuracy and fluency of the discourse, and create active topic-related vocabulary used in context.

Listening: Authentic texts and interviews aimed at processing information from the text with subsequent argumentation.

Reading: More demanding texts, articles and extracts from books, newspapers and magazines, short stories, and technical texts.

Speaking: Focus on pronunciation, stress and intonation. Presentations, technical and topic-related communication, commentary, argumentation, deduction, expressing preferences and opinions, giving reasons, agreeing and disagreeing, ending a discussion.

Writing: Articles to the editor, letters (personal, formal, letter of application/cover letter), Curriculum Vitae/resume, seminars on specialised topics, short stories.

Grammar: Revision of tenses, participles, gerunds, participle clauses, reported speech, past modals, compound adjectives, word formation.

Vocabulary: New words in English, formal vocabulary, discourse markers, verb patterns, collocations, idioms and phrasal verbs, prepositional phrases. Paraphrasing, inversion. Syntax of specialised texts.

Using monolingual and online dictionaries.

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Study materials:

[1] Jones,C., Bastow,T., Hird,J.: Inside Out Advanced, Student´s Book, Macmillan

[2] Selected specialised texts available at: http://jazyky.felk.cvut.cz/vyuka/A/

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No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: