English for Intermediate Students M3

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Hana Čápová

Supervisor:

Department of Languages

Synopsis:

The course develops the skills that enable the student to cope with features typical of professional style (e.g., describing processes, giving instructions). Increasing attention is paid to developing subtechnical vocabulary and independent understanding of professional texts. Great emphasis is placed on distinguishing different levels of formal and informal oral and written commmunication and their appropriate Czech equivalents. The course includes, e.g., expressing opinion, note-taking, summarizing, extracting facts from texts, studying abstracts, and if possible, also a short presentation on a chosen or assigned topic.

Requirements:

a pass in the AM2 course

Syllabus of lectures:

Description of stuctures and processes, materials and their properties, instructions, rules and regulations. Passive voice, modal verbs. Buiding a paragraph. Translations into Czech.

Syllabus of tutorials:

The course is run as a series of seminars following the topics and scope of the syllabus mentioned above.

Study Objective:

Knowledge:

Morphology, syntax, and lexis at the level appropriate to the course, namely: modal verbs, passive voice, fundamentals of textual grammar, extended more professional vocabulary.

Skills:

To apply the acquired knowledge in everyday communication and in more professional contexts both in speaking and writing: to describe an object, process, and experiment, make instructions, apply reading strategies depending on purpose, find and paraphrase information from texts, translate a longer passage into Czech.

To qualify for admission to examination.

Study materials:

Key references:

[1] Z.Strnadová, Aiming to Advance, Praha, Leda 2010

[2] teaching materials prepared by the department, see web pages of the teacher

http://people.fjfi.cvut.cz/capovhan

Recommended references:

[3] R.Murphy - English Grammar in Use, Cambridge University Press 2010

[4] monolingual and bilingual dictionaries

Teaching aids:

language classroom, audiovisuals,PC lab

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: