German for Advanced Students P3

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Miloslava Čechová (gar.)

Supervisor:

Department of Languages

Synopsis:

The course consists of 3 main parts (general communicative situations, grammar, and technical topics). Students will extend their vocabulary in more difficult or less common situations (traffic problems and car accidents, accident report, filling in a form, complaints), in fields such as nuclear power engineering, the environment, computer science, and car technology. By means of preparing papers and presentation, students are trained to process information gained from their reading of complex and difficult texts and present it to the class. Furthermore, special attention is paid to translations to and from German.

Requirements:

a pass in course NP2

Syllabus of lectures:

texts:

1. Strom aus Sonnenlicht

2. Umweltschutz

3. Energie durch Kernspaltung

4. Sonnenenergie

5. Mehrzweckleuchte

6. Strom ohne Widerstand

7. Das Laser - ein Messer aus Licht

8. Wasserstoff - ein neuer Treibstoff

9. Wärme aus kaltem Wasser

grammar:

1. Verb patterns

2. Prepositions with nouns and adjectives

3. Verb prefixex partially separable, partially inseparable

vocabulary:

in the texts

1. The enviroment

2. Nuclear power engineering

3. Alternative energy sources

4. Abbreviations and

Specific skills typical of presentations and their assessment (presentation techniques, expressing agreement, disagreement, emphasizing, reasoning, etc.)

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:

Knowledge of morphology, syntax, and lexis at the level appropriate to the course, particularly verb patterns, prepositions with nouns and adjectives, verb prefixes, abbreviations and abbreviated words; lexis related to the environment, nuclear power engineering, alternative energy sources, new technologies.

Skills:

To use the acquired knowledge in everyday communication and in more professional contexts both in speaking and writing, namely read, retell, summarise, and translate a specialised text (a set of instructions), explain and defend an opinion on a topic, prepare and present a paper, evaluate other students on the basis of given criteria (language, form, contents).

To qualify for admission to examination

Study materials:

Key references:

[1] E.Zettl, J. Janssen, H. Müller: Aus moderner Technik und Naturwissenschaft, Neubearbeitung

Max Hueber Verlag 2003

Recommended references:

[2] teaching materials prepared at the Department of Languages

see web-pages of the teacher:

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

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: