SPA005 English for hearing impaired students V

Pan-university studies
Autumn 2017
Extent and Intensity
2/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Zuzana Fonioková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Lenka Tóthová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Ilja Rajdová (assistant)
Mgr. et Mgr. Eva Barnová (seminar tutor)
Mgr. et Mgr. Hana Mihai (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Markéta Oplatková Plocková (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Petr Peňáz
Support Centre for Students with Special Needs
Contact Person: Mgr. Ilja Rajdová
Supplier department: Support Centre for Students with Special Needs
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
Tento kurz je určen pro studenty všech fakult Masarykovy univerzity se sluchovým postižením. Slouží jako alternativa k povinné výuce angličtiny na některých oborech na MU. Kurz také poskytuje úvod do akademického psaní pro studenty se sluchovým postižením. Výstupní úroveň tohoto kurzu je přibližně B2+ podle Společného evropského referenčního rámce.
Syllabus
  • Lesson 1 - International student
  • READING: Going abroad to study (application forms); Ways of effective reading (summary of reading strategies); WRITING: Describing people + informal letter; VOCABULARY: Dictionaries (parts of speech); personality; GRAMMAR: Tense revision
  • Lesson 2 - Daily routines
  • READING: Work and stress; WRITING: routines and procedures, sequencing; VOCABULARY: collocations; jobs -er, -or, -ist; word building; GRAMMAR: Making questions - revision + indirect questions +reported speech
  • Lesson 3 - People and the environment
  • READING: weather (scanning); WRITING: describing our lives; VOCABULARY: weather; GRAMMAR: present perfect simple / continuous - revision
  • Lesson 4 – Urban life
  • READING: Famous buildings (text cohesion); WRITING: describing buildings (linking ideas); VOCABULARY: urban life; GRAMMAR: revision of conditionals
  • Lesson 5 - Education
  • READING: Universities (predicting; linking ideas); making notes
  • WRITING: formal letters and emails; VOCABULARY: irregular plurals; university life; GRAMMAR: conjunctions
  • Lesson 6 - Technology
  • READING: Inventions (websites); WRITING: Describing things (definitions, descriptions); VOCABULARY: Spelling; verbs often confused; GRAMMAR: relative clauses; conjunctions; Verbs followed by infinitives and by gerunds
  • Lesson 7 - Food, drink, and culture
  • READING: Food from other countries (topic sentences, writer’s opinion); WRITING: describing food and drink - recipe + punctuation; VOCABULARY: food and cooking; prefixes; GRAMMAR: be used to / get used to / used to do;
  • Lesson 8 - Cities of the world;
  • READING: City life (getting facts from a text); WRITING: Comparing data; writing about cities; VOCABULARY: word formation; towns and cities; GRAMMAR: revision comparatives and superlatives of adjectives and adverbs;
  • Lesson 9 - Brain power
  • READING: A healthy brain (synonyms, making notes); books; WRITING: Notes and summaries; VOCABULARY: human body; GRAMMAR: Passive voice
  • Lesson 10 – Where in the world…?
  • READING: Three countries (skimming and scanning); WRITING: Writing a description of my country; VOCABULARY: countries and languages; the compass; GRAMMAR: „the“ with geographical names
Literature
  • OXENDEN, Clive a Christina LATHAM-KOENIG. New English file: upper-intermediate : student's book : [s anglicko-českým slovníčkem]. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 9780194519571.
  • GAIRNS, Ruth and Stuart REDMAN. Oxford word skills. 1st publ. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, 254 s. ISBN 9780194620079. info
  • HARRISON, Richard. New Headway academic skills : level 1 student's book : reading, writing, and study skills. 1st publ. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 71 s. ISBN 9780194715584. info
  • PHILPOT, Sarah. New Headway academic skills : level 2 student's book : reading, writing, and study skills. 1st publ. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 71 s. ISBN 9780194715676. info
  • MILLER, Judy L. and Robert F. COHEN. Reason to write : strategies for success in academic writing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, x, 178. ISBN 9780194367714. info
Teaching methods
individual work and pair-work activities, e-learning (elf), homework assignments
Assessment methods
Students are allowed two absences in a semester. Absence needs to be previously arranged and approved by the teacher. Additional absences need to be evidenced.
One of the prerequisites for the completion of the course is home preparation and doing assignments.
Students must sit for the midterm test and/or the end-of-course test. Students must obtain at least 60% of the total number of points available in the end-of-course test.
Exam: The final grade is based on the grades achieved in the final test and the mid-test. Mid-test assessment grid: Less than 40% in the mid-test = -3 points from the end-of-course test score; 40-50% = -2; 50-60%= -1; 60-70% = 0; 70-80% = +1; 80-90% = +2; 90-100% = +3.
Credit: Students must sit for the end-of-course test. Students must obtain at least 60% of the total number of points available in the end-of-course test.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2021.
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