Presentation Course

Relations:

In order to register for the course 04API, the student must have successfully completed in previous semesters the required number of courses in the group PREREKKHVJ3.

In order to register for the course 04APPZK, the student must have received credit for the course 04API in a previous semester.

In order to register for the course 04APJP, the student must have received credit for the course 04API in a previous semester.

In order to register for the course 04JPBP, the student must have received credit for the course 04API in a previous semester.

Course guarantor:

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Beatriz Vadillo Gonzalo

Supervisor:

Department of Humanities and Languages

Synopsis:

The course will prepare students for presenting issues in their field by mastering the strategies and techniques of oral presentation. The course includes discussions (expressing views, comments, agreement, disagreement). Students will be able to respond to comments on their presentation and answer questions addressed to them after the presentation, which is a skill required for the defence of the Bachelor Project. Students will learn the basic structure of a Bachelor Project and rules for writing a paper.

Requirements:

Students will have passed the 04APAK and 04APOK examinations.

Syllabus of lectures:

Preparing a presentation, presentation strategy and techniques, choice of appropriate language structures, discussion techniques, expressing opinions, agreement, disagreement, assessment of presentations.

Summarizing, writing an abstract, citations, paraphrasing, plagiarism. Basic structure of a Bachelor Project.

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:

Morphology, syntax, and lexis used in professional communication in formal speaking, rules and principles of oral presentations, expressing agreement, disagreement, opinion.

Skills:

To make a presentation in the student´s field, using appropriate language structures, to discuss specific problems, search and paraphrase relevant information from a text, write a summary and abstract.

Study materials:

Key references:

materials prepared by the Department of Languages

Recommended references:

[1] M.Powell, Presenting in English. LIP Business 1999

[2] S.Sweeney, English for Business Communication, Cambridge University Press 1990

[3] dictionaries

Teaching aids:

language classroom, audiovisuals, PC lab

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:

	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
Tue
Wed	roomTR:301 Vadillo Gonzalo B. 14:00–15:50 (parallel nr.101) Trojanova 13
Thu
Fri

Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Aplikovaná informatika (compulsory course in the program)