English language 2

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Jitka Procházková, Alena Havlíčková, Markéta Havlíčková, Naděžda Němcová, Irena Petra Nováková, Pavla Péterová, Dana Saláková

Supervisor:

Department of Languages

Synopsis:

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 aspects of grammar.

Requirements:

Part-time STM students are supposed to get a „zápočet“ before taking the exam. In order to comply with the regulations, students should follow the information on the Department of Languages website and sign up for the respective credit test in KOS.

Y04A2 - Requirements for the Examination in English - Advanced Level available at:

http://jazyky.feld.cvut.cz/

Syllabus of lectures:

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

SYLLABUS FOR ADVANCED ENGLISH - Y04A2L; A7B04A2L

Summer 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

Writing: Note-Taking

Grammar: Relative Clauses

Week 2Everyday Encryption

Writing: Paragraph Structure, Commonly Used Transitions

Grammar: Future Tenses

Week 3Cheating the Search Engines

Writing: Summary

Grammar: -ing and -ed Clauses

Week 4OpenGL

Writing: Abstract

Grammar: -ing / Infinitive Forms

Week 5Web Content Management System

Grammar: Mixed Tenses

Revision for Midterm Test

Week 6Midterm Test (60 minutes)

Grammar: Prepositions; Make - Do

Week 7Midterm Test Evaluation

Current Style in Graphic Design for the Web

Grammar: Object + Infinitive

Week 8Database Models

Writing: Argumentation Paper

Grammar: Subject + Infinitive

Week 9Wikipedia

Grammar: Linking Words; Articles (revision)

Week 10Revision for Final Term Test

Grammar: Conditionals

Week 11Final Term Test = zápočtový test

Week 12Test Evaluation

Week 13Zápočty

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

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, passive forms, using gerunds and infinitives to reduce clauses, subject - verb agreement, articles, adjectives and adverbs, verbs + preposition, time clauses, prepositions of time and place.

Reading: Topic-related technical reading texts, interpreting graphs and diagrams, mathematical expressions.

Writing: Developing presentation skills and techniques, summarizing the content of an article, writing short essays.

Vocabulary: specialised terminology from the field of informatics, graphics, economics and management. Translating technical texts using monolingual and online dictionaries.

Study materials:

Compulsory materials:

Odborná angličtina pro STM, viz Materiály K 13104 na: http://jazyky.feld.cvut.cz/

Recommended literature:

ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN USE, Raymond Murphy, vyd.: CUP

ADVANCED ENGLISH, Martin Hewit, CUP

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Inteligentní systémy (language course)
• Manažerská informatika (language course)
• Softwarové inženýrství (language course)
• Společný 1. ročník (language course)
• Web a multimedia (language course)
• Inteligentní systémy (STM-A7B-přechodné) (language course)