VV041 English for Academic Purposes

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2006
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
James Edward Thomas, M.A. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ing. Václav Přenosil, CSc.
Faculty of Informatics
Timetable
Tue 17:00–18:50 B410, Wed 12:00–13:50 B410
Prerequisites
PROGRAM ( D - IN )
Students are expected to have passed all English language requirements for the "Magister" course.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This is a blended-learning course. The class meets once a week for two hours to undertake language learning activities as set out in the course book and additional activities. Homework is checked, and speaking and listening activities are performed. The distance learning component is mediated through Moodle and further language learning activities are engaged in. These include working through online drills and exercises, collaborative writing tasks, language discovery tasks particicular via corpus analysis, e-seminars in the form of forum discussions and the use of online dictionaries to create hypertext reading activities. The course is taught in two streams: one for those entering their PhD studies and the other for continuing students.
Syllabus
  • Both streams use Ready for First Certificate, Roy Norris, Macmillan 2001 Stream One: Unit One Language Focus – habitual behaviour, frequency adverbs. Vocabulary – clothes, expressions with get. Reading – gapped text. Writing – informal letters. Use of English – transformations. Listening – multiple matching. Speaking – talking about photos. Stream Two: Unit Seven Language Focus – present perfect, contrasting ideas, expressing preferences. Vocabulary – shopping, expressions with come, towns and villages. Reading – gapped text. Writing – letters of complaint . Use of English – error correction, transformations. Listening – note taking, matching. Speaking – talking about photos. Both streams undertake a range of supplementary activities. These include extensive dictionary work, collocates of academic vocabulary, learning to learn activities, grammar of vocabulary, introductory it construction.
Literature
  • Ready for First Certificate, Roy Norris, Macmillan 2001
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Successful completion of this course involves attending adn contributing, doing the weekly homework, submitting the writing tasks and using the online activities. As well, there will be a test on the content of the semester.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught each semester.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2005, Spring 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2006, recent)
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