AJ2BK_SSYB Syntax Seminar B

Faculty of Education
Spring 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/0/2. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Martin Adam, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
AJ2BK_SSYB/OS01: Fri 28. 2. 9:20–11:00 učebna 11, Fri 21. 3. 9:20–11:00 učebna 11, Fri 4. 4. 9:20–11:00 učebna 11, Fri 18. 4. 9:20–11:00 učebna 11, Fri 2. 5. 9:20–11:00 učebna 11, Fri 23. 5. 9:20–11:00 učebna 11, M. Adam
AJ2BK_SSYB/01: Mon 17. 2. 8:25–10:05 učebna 58, Mon 3. 3. 8:25–10:05 učebna 58, Mon 17. 3. 8:25–10:05 učebna 58, Mon 31. 3. 8:25–10:05 učebna 58, Mon 14. 4. 8:25–10:05 učebna 58, Mon 12. 5. 8:25–10:05 učebna 58, M. Adam
Prerequisites
( AJ2BK_PJ1B Practical Language 1B && AJ2BK_GRAB Grammar B && AJ2BK_CF1B Phonetics Seminar B ) || AJ2BK_SOZK Complex Exam
This course can be attended by all students who have passed their exam in English grammar in the first year of their sstudy and who have successfully finished Seminar to syntax A.
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
The main goal of the course is to master characteristic features of English syntax, mainly in comparison with the students mother tongue. The diffrences between the simple sentence, compound sentence and complex sentence will be studied. All types of dependent clauses, complex condensation and information processing will be included in the course syllabus too.
Syllabus
  • Textbooks: Chapters 13, 14, 15, 16, 18 from A Student's English Grammar Workbook (Sylvia Chalker) and Chapters 3-9 from Grammar in Context (Hugh Gethin) February: Chapter 13 - Coordination. Chapter 10 B - The -ing form as gerund. March: Chapter 13 - cont. Chapter 10 C - Verbs taking the infinitive or -ing (participle) according to meaning. Chapter 16 - Complementation of verbs and adjectives - selfstudy. Chapter 10 D - Verbs taking a full infinitive or -ing (gerund) according to meaning. Lists of verbs - selfstudy. Chapter 16 - cont. Practice. Chapter 10 D - Verbs taking a full infonitive or -ing (gerund) according to meaning - cont. Revision of Chapter 10. Revision of Chapters 13 and 16. Chapter 3 A - Relation between result and cause. Chapter 3 B - Result expressed by too or enough. Chapter 14 - The complex sentence - introduction. Chapter 4 A - Purpose (Standard constructions). April: Chapter 14 - cont. Revision test. Chapter 4 B - Purpose (Shortened constructions) Chapter 6 - cause, purpose, concesssion (Alternatives Chapter 14 - cont. Revision of Chapter 14 - selfstudy. Chapter 5 - Concession. Chapter 6 - cont. - selfstudy. Chapter 15 - Syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses. Revision of Chapters 4, 5 and 6. Practice. Chapter 15 - cont. Chapter 7 - Time. Revision of Chapters 3, 4, 5 and 6. May: Chapter 18 - Theme, focus, and information processing. Chapter 8 A - Relatives. Introduction. Chapter 18 - cont. Chapter 8 B - Sentence building with relatives. Chapter 18 - cont. Chapter 8 C - Shortened constructions. Chapter 9 -Similarity and comparison.
Literature
  • GETHIN, Hugh. Grammar in context :proficiency level English. New edition. Harlow: Longman, 1996, 235 s. ISBN 0-17-556420-5. info
  • SVARTVIK, Jan and Geoffrey N. LEECH. A communicative grammar of English. 2nd ed. London: Longman, 1994, xiv, 423. ISBN 058208573X. info
  • CHALKER, Sylvia. A student's English grammar : workbook. First published. Harlow: Longman, 1992, 186 stran. ISBN 0582088194. info
  • CHALKER, Sylvia. English grammar :word by word. Harlow: Longman, 1990, 448 s. ISBN 0-17-555705-5. info
  • CHALKER, Sylvia. Current English grammar. London: Macmillan, 1984, 296 p. ; 2. ISBN 0-333-35025-169. info
  • DEUCHAR, Margaret, Robert HOOGENRAAD and Geoffrey Neil LEECH. English grammar for today :a new introduction. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1982, xvi, 224 s. ISBN 0-333-30644-9. info
Teaching methods
Mode of teaching: seminar The methods used in classes are mainly presentations of new and/or problematic grammatical issues by the teacher, followed by class discussions and questions from students, and various types of exercises from compulsory textbooks, including drills. As for homework, students are supposed to study in advance relevant chapters from their textbooks and translate sentences from Czech into English. Apart from that, students have to do various interactive moodle modules including quizzes designed particularly for their course.
Assessment methods
In order to be allowed to sit for the oral exam students have to pass a mid-term test and translation, and a final exam test and translation. The passmark of all the tests including translations is 70 per cent. The final exam test and translation comprise the subject matter from the whole year and the result is part of the oral exam. The oral exam comprises the subject matter from the whole academic year.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 24 hodin.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=982
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2018, Spring 2019.
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