ACADEMIC ORACY, Spring 2011 Location and time: Tue 15:50-17:25, G 32. Facilitator: Kateřina Tomková, tomkat@phil.muni.cz. Office hours: Tue 2:10-3:40, Wed12:30-2 and Thu 11-12:30 or 2:10-3:40. Assessment: active attendance 3pts a session; *assigned presentation up to 10pts; **students’ own initiative presentations up to 20pts; final test max. 50 pts.jj Preliminary Syllabus Date AWARENESS SKILLS Mch 1 Delimitation of the subject. Introduction of projects: skit May 4; election of best speakers. Academic contexts. University hierarchy. Films and books set in the Academia (Changing Places, Small World, Educating Rita, Possession, Arcadia, Social Network). *Course administrator: T. Chýlová. Consistent accent. Segmental sounds. Pronunciation errors. Collection of errors taboo game. Tongue twisters, stress patterns. The most frequent mistakes made by Czech academics. Mch 15 Election of best speakers. Tomková: Perceptions of Non-Native Pronunciation of English by Native Speakers. **Presentation technicalities and skills (A.S. Pospíšilová). *M.Ježek: Upton’s Model of RP (Master’s diss.) (L. Macková). *I.Headlandová Kalischová: Intonation Centre (PhD. diss.) (L. Nepomucká). Ideas for skit / Slam poetry contest. Mch 29 *Crystal&Davy: Investigating English Style (P. Romová). *A.Launer: Social Dialects (A. Kobrlová, D. Matscheová). ** Rhetorics; figures of speech (O. Žižková) . **Singing (D.Lopašovská). Apr. 12 **Academic debate (E. Mokrá). **Academic debate in class (Z. Nývlt). Apr. 26 **Political correctness (M. Sučková). Finalizing the skit. Wed., May 4 CREATIVITY ********** NIGHT ********** May 10 Discussion with the elected speakers. Final test. . From Mediocre Mark It’s wonderful, it’s marvellous To be a clever diplomat, oh yes It’s wonderful, it’s marvellous, Much better than lie on a mat like Mark. It’s wonderful, it’s marvellous To be on the linguistic team, oh yes It’s wonderful, it’s marvellous, It enhances your self-esteem, oh yes! Our Mark is good for nothing, we don’t know what to do Apart from playing computer games all he does is chew and chew Our Mark is good for nothing, still uncouth at 22 He slurps his soup like a hungry wolf, never says please or thank you Take out the rubbish, help me clean, do some exercise, don’t be so mean Well if you think that I’m an idiot, well I’m sure you do me wrong I’ve developed my computer skills which now are pretty strong If you treat me like a dummy I’ll go out into the world There’ll be plenty of opportunities to prove I’m not a nerd. SUGGESTIONS FOR CREATIVITY NIGHT: 1 The Cambridge oral test. 2 A commercial to study at the English Dept. 3 A musical on FSP or something known to everybody.