English for PhD students

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Eva Motyčková (gar.)

Supervisor:

Department of Biomedical Technology

Synopsis:

The aim of the course is to introduce PhD students to the art of composing written documents ( e.g. presentations, official letters), oral presentation, reading skills ( getting both general and detailed information ), the art of understanding speech in a foreign language. (general gist, specific information). Selected parts of relevant grammar, defining and classifying, qualifying and comparing are also included. General technical English, specific technical English.

Requirements:

credit : attendance - 3 sick leaves per semester, presentation, exam : written test - min. 60%, oral part - reading technical text

Syllabus of lectures:

1.Brain on a chip could be the key to mind drugs

Key nouns, key verbs in academic English

2.Embryonic hope

Key adjectives, key adverbs

3.Roman nose sniffs out people with lung cancer

Phrasal verbs in academic English

4.Needle free biopsy pins down tumours

Key quantifying expressions

5.Hitting the nerve

Words with several meanings

6.Colour vision

Nouns and the words they combine with

7.Endoscope goes where none has gone before

Adjectives and noun combinations

8.Sperm magnet to help infertile men

Verbs and the words they combine with

9. Driven to

Prepositional Phrases

10. Efficient lighting

Verbs and prepositions

11. Alchemy

Nouns and prepositions

12. Fixed expressions

13. + 14. Presentations of the students, final test

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

The aim of the course is to introduce PhD students to the art of composing written documents ( e.g. presentations, official letters), oral presentation, reading skills ( getting both general and detailed information ), the art of understanding speech in a foreign language. (general gist, specific information). Selected parts of relevant grammar, defining and classifying, qualifying and comparing are also included. General technical English, specific technical English.

Study materials:

[1] Roubík K., Motyčková E. Denney P., Poncová E.: English for Biomedical and Electrical Engineering Scientists, Nakladatelství ČVUT, 2009

[2] Mc Carthy M., O'Dell F. : Academic Vocabulary in Use, Cambridge University Press 2008, Reprinted 2009

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

	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	roomKL:B-615 Motyčková E. 10:00–11:50 (parallel nr.1) Kladno FBMI Zasedačka
Tue	roomKL:B-615 Motyčková E. 08:00–09:50 (parallel nr.2) Kladno FBMI ZasedačkaroomKL:C-2 Motyčková E. 12:00–13:50 (parallel nr.3) Kladno FBMI salonek
Fri
Thu
Fri

The course is a part of the following study plans: