English language 2-1
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| A0B04A2Z | Z | 0 | 2s |
- Lecturer:
- Tutor:
- Pavla Péterová, Jitka Procházková (gar.), Alan Harvey Cook, Alena Havlíčková, Markéta Havlíčková, Václava Jarská, Naděžda Němcová, Eva Poncová, Dana Saláková, Marcela Štiková, Eva Vernerová
- Supervisor:
- Department of Languages
- Synopsis:
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The course is suitable for students who have good knowledge of the material covered in secondary school in that language. Course objective: The course focuses on technical English and practising difficult grammar concepts.
- Requirements:
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Requirements for „zápočet“
Academic achievement - students are due to:
-Take an active part in the language instruction.
-Deliver a presentation.
-Meet the requirements for home assignments.
-Succeed in two tests (midterm and final) and get 70% of the total points at minimum for each.
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.
- Syllabus of lectures:
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A0B04A2Z SYLLABUS FOR ADVANCED ENGLISH
Winter Term 2012/2013
Materials K 13104:
-Texts and Grammar (Available at http://jazyky.feld.cvut.cz/vyuka/A/)
Recommended materials:
-Student?s Dictionary and Grammar
-English Grammar in Use; Raymond Murphy
-English Grammar in Use Supplementary Exercises; Murphy & Naylor
WEEK 1Introduction, General Information
How to Make a Good Presentation
G: Tenses
WEEK 2Text - Robotics
G: Tenses (continued)
WEEK 3Text - Electromagnetic Waves
G: Questions (Direct, Indirect, Subject, Object)
WEEK 4Text - How Nanotechnology Will Work
G: Prepositions of Time and Place
Revision for Midterm Test
WEEK 5Midterm Test (60 minutes)
G: Subject - Verb Agreement
WEEK 6Midterm Test Evaluation
Text - Data Communications
G: Modal Verbs
WEEK 7Text - GPS
G: Articles
WEEK 8Text - How Internet Censorship Works
G: Articles (continued)
G: -ing / Infinitive Forms
WEEK 9Text - Internet Fuels Boom in ID Theft
G: Passive
WEEK 10Revision for Final Term Test
WEEK 11Final Term Test (=zápočtový test)
WEEK 12 Test Evaluation
WEEK 13 Zápočty
Requirements for „zápočet“
Academic Achievement - students are due to:
-Take an active part in the language instruction.
-Deliver a presentation.
-Meet the requirements for home assignments.
-Succeed in two tests (midterm and final) and get 70% of the total points at minimum for each.
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.
*Teachers are allowed to and recommended to supplement each week with their own materials.
- Syllabus of tutorials:
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Course objective: The course focuses on technical English and practising difficult grammar concepts. Listening: Authentic texts, exercises on the text, interview,news. Reading: More difficult texts and newspaper articles, mathematical symbols and abbreviations and technical texts. Speaking: Discussion of technical drawings (graphs, diagrams) and texts, discussions, describing objects, leaving messages and stating preferences. Specialised terminology from the area of study. Writing: Advertisements, summaries, descriptions, technical specifications, stating preferences. Grammar: Revision of tenses, participles, subject and object questions, articles, countable and uncountable nouns, subject - verb agreement, passive, verb phrases - (verb + to- infinitive/ gerund/ preposition. Using a dictionary.
- Study Objective:
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Course objective: The course focuses on technical English and practising difficult grammar concepts. Listening: Authentic texts, exercises on the text, interview,news. Reading: More difficult texts and newspaper articles, mathematical symbols and abbreviations and technical texts. Speaking: Discussion of technical drawings (graphs, diagrams) and texts, discussions, describing objects, leaving messages and stating preferences. Specialised terminology from the area of study. Writing: Advertisements, summaries, descriptions, technical specifications, stating preferences. Grammar: Revision of tenses, participles, subject and object questions, articles, countable and uncountable nouns, subject - verb agreement, passive, verb phrases - (verb + to- infinitive/ gerund/ preposition. Using a dictionary.
- Study materials:
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[1] materials K 304, available at:http://jazyky.feld.cvut.cz/vyuka
- 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: