Course in Applied English Usage

Relations:

In order to register for the course 04APA, the student must have successfully completed the course 04APSK in a previous semester.

In order to register for course 04APAK, the student must have registered for course 04APAK in a previous semester or in the same semester.

Course guarantor:

Nathaniel Patton

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Nathaniel Patton

Supervisor:

Department of Humanities and Languages

Synopsis:

To sign in for the course, student will have passed final examination in Course in Language Structures (04APSK). The course concludes study of grammar structures and applies them to understanding everyday and ESP language situations, laying stress on choice of exact and adequate language and grammar structures in both English-Czech and Czech-English translations..

Requirements:

Students must receive at least 60% on the final test in order to pass (unless they are sanctioned for missing homework). Students are only allowed to re-take the test one time and the minimum re-take score is 70%.

Attendance is required. Only 3 absences are allowed per semester without a legitimate excuse (serious illness, for example). If a student is absent for more than 3 lessons, they will not be allowed to do the zápočet. Please come to class on time. Coming more than 20 minutes late will be counted as an absence.

Students who do not complete the homework will receive a 3% deduction from their final grade for each missed assignment. Students who miss 5 or more assignments will not be able to take the credit test.

Syllabus of lectures:

Specific language structures used in communication on specialised technical topics: prepositions and prepositional phrases, noun compounds, collocations, punctuation, mathematical expressions, graphs, translation techniques.

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:

Extending knowledge acquired in the grammar course when working with longer texts, distinguishing various kinds of registers in discourse, translation techniques, prepositions, prepositional phrases, nominal structures, collocations, punctuation, graphs, abbreviations.

Skills:

To make use of grammar structures acquired in the grammar course and use them when working with texts of various registers (differences in syntax and lexis, punctuation) both in written and oral communication to be able to translate semiprofessional and professional texts.

Study materials:

Key references:

[1] S.Tryml, Active English Grammar, Ekopress 2005

[2] materials worked out by tutor,

[3] monoligual and bilingual dictionaries

Recommended references:

[1] R.Carter, M.McCarthy, Cambridge Grammar of English, Cambridge University Press 2007

[2] M.Swan, Practical English Usage, Oxford University Press 2009

[3] M.McCarthy, F.O´Dell, Academic Vocabulary in Use, Cambridge University Press 2008

Teaching aids:

language classroom, audiovisuals, PC lab

Note:

Student will have passed 04APSK examination.

Time-table for winter semester 2025/2026:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2025/2026:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Aplikovaná informatika (compulsory course in the program)