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STUDY PLANS
2024/2025

Introduction to English for Specific Purposes 2

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Code Completion Credits Range Language
04APU2 Z 2 2S Czech
Relations:
It is a condition for enrolment in course 04APU2 that the student must have received credit for the course 04APU1 in a previous semester
The course 04APUK can be graded only after the course 04APU2 has been successfully completed.
Course guarantor:
Lecturer:
Tutor:
Jana Kovářová, Nathaniel Patton
Supervisor:
Department of Humanities and Languages
Synopsis:

The course 04APU2 is a sequel to course 04APU, concentrating more thoroughly on ESP text content, text grammar and vocabulary. It introduces more advanced functions typical of ESP and more advanced information technology terms.

Requirements:

Student will have passed course 04APU1.

Syllabus of lectures:

Topics based on the textbook, namely: application programs, multimedia, computer networks, the Internet, www, websites and webpages, communication systems.

Process and system descriptions, instructions, advice, recommendations, warnings. Arranging, sorting out, transferring, and assessing information obtained from written and spoken texts.

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:

Extended student´s ESP competence: new terminology and reading specialised texts with respect to specific language structures, particularly: conditionals, subordinate clauses, cause and effect.

Skills:

To understand more complex texts in the branch and work with longer authentic texts.

Study materials:

Key references:

[1] E.Glendenning, J.McEwan, Oxford English for Information Technology, Oxford University Press, latest edition

[2] materials prepared by the Department (KHVJ), avaiable at the Department and websites of teachers

Recommended references:

[3] materials prepared by the Department

[4] materials from the Internet

[5] dictionaries

Teaching aids:

language classroom, audiovisuals, PC lab

Note:
Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:
Time-table is not available yet
Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:
Time-table is not available yet
The course is a part of the following study plans:
Data valid to 2025-02-13
For updated information see http://bilakniha.cvut.cz/en/predmet6351706.html