English (preparatory courses to study abroad 2)

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Department of Languages

Synopsis:

The course aims at providing students with communicative skills that enable them to study in a foreign linguistic context, including the basic technical terminology.

The level of proficiency: intermediate B1+.

Requirements:

no prerequisites

Syllabus of lectures:

This course is not a lecture but practical session:

Course code: 104XA24

Duration: 2 hours / 1 semester

For more information see Outline and Syllabus of Exercises

Syllabus of tutorials:

Syllabus:

Placement test Placement test - IELTS Academic Week 0 (Webové zobrazení)

Grammar - Tense Review - FCE Level,

Formal and Informal Style

Academic Style - video

Reading CV and Personal Statement

Listening

Writing CV

Warmer - common errors - GW, WC - correct

Tenses - notebook (level? Upper Int or Adv - depending on the class - distribute to notebooks)

Formal vs. Informal - choice of handouts - Warmer? - examples. Picture - clothes - parallel with language

Academic writing - (the video is for Chinese students...) plus infographic - fill in the gaps and add details and examples from the video

Write a checklist

Rewrite sentences

HW - prepare your CV

Grammar - Tense Review

Reading

Listening

Writing - Personal Statement (copy - Civil Engineering Personal statement postgraduate)Worksheet

CV Reading, CV worksheet - (Sandra) distributed

Student Tenses Review, Listening Personal Statement Uni of Birmingham

Grammar - Passive voice

Reading

Listening

Writing - Cover Letter

Grammar - Reported Speech

Reading

Listening

Writing - Summary, Annotation

Grammar - Reported questions

Grammar - Clauses (Relative clauses)

Reading Graphs and diagrams

Listening

Writing Graph, diagram description

Grammar - Conditionals

Reading

Listening

Writing - Article

Grammar - Prepositions

Reading

Listening

Writing - Article

https://www.adelaide.edu.au/english-for-uni/prepositions

Grammar - Linking devices

Reading

Listening

Writing - Essay

Grammar - Articles

Reading

Listening

Writing - Essay

Grammar - Review

Reading

Listening

Writing

PRESENTATIONS

Study Objective:

The aim of the course is to prepare students for studying in the English language abroad and consolidate all the necessary grammar skills in the English language from a B1 level upward; to promote students' ability to use the acquired knowledge in practice

Study materials:

Varous - no student book required

e.g.

Course Catalogues of International Universities

J., L. Soars: Headway (Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, Upper-Intermediate)

N. Hartley, P. Viney: Streamline English

L. Kollmannová et al.: New Ways to Spoken English

S. Kasíková, H. Horká, R. Nivenová, V. Sedláková: English for Civil Engineering

Note:

Further information:

http://departments.fsv.cvut.cz/k104/index.php/2018/09/19/gramaticka-cviceni/

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: