Course: English Leanguage I

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Course title English Leanguage I
Course code TUVI/TWBA2
Organizational form of instruction no contact
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech, English
Status of course Compulsory, Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Vrábelová Mária, Ing.
Course content
- The topic: Pain, Effective reading, scanning, skimming. How to Learn Faster with the Feynman Technique. - Presentation. How to start? Food poisoning. Expressing purpose, reason and result. Job Interview. - Discussion about presentations. Alternative Medicine, debate. Predicting content, rephrasing. - Cosmetic Surgery, writing a paragraph. Summary writing. - Introduction to a presentation. Experiments on Animals, debate, Avoiding plagiarism. Passives. - Repetition. Gas Poisoning, Text cohesion. Using reference material, the Internet. - Method and materials in PPt. Recycling in Sweden. Collocations. - Writing a report. Aeroplane Crashes, Compound nouns.Compound adjectives. - Results. Road Accidents, Articles. - Conclusion in PPt, Cancer, giving presentations. - Giving presentations. Figures and graphs. Useful phrases in presentations. Writing abstracts. - Giving presentations. Writing essays. - Giving presentations. Repetition, test.

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Preparation for examination - 76 hours per semester
learning outcomes
Knowledge
fundamentals of academic English
fundamentals of academic English
Skills
in TE communication and writing
in TE communication and writing
is getting prepared for technical presentation in English language
is getting prepared for technical presentation in English language
teaching methods
Knowledge
Individual work of students
Individual work of students
Methods for working with texts (Textbook, book)
Methods for working with texts (Textbook, book)
Skills
Individual work of students
Individual work of students
Practice exercises
Practice exercises
assessment methods
Knowledge
Didactic test
Didactic test
Analysis of the student's performance
Analysis of the student's performance
Conversation
Conversation
Oral examination
Oral examination
Recommended literature
  • Hart, B., Haines, S. Complete Advanced Course. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
  • OTTO, M., OTTO, B. Sledujeme zpravodajství v angličtině. Fragment, 1995.


Study plans that include the course
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