SPOKEN FLUENCY D                    AUTUMN 2009


Location and time: Room G21, Wednesday 1:20-2:55

Facilitator: PhDr. Kateřina Tomková, Ph.D., tomkat@phil.muni.cz;

                   office hours: Tue 1:30-2:30 and 5-6, Wed 3-4, Thu 3:30-4:30.


Assessment: Peer

1 You assess presentations you were present at (not your own).

2 You scale them from best (80pts) to worst with min.

- 2 pts difference between them if you heard 11+ presentations,

- 3 pts diference between then if you were present to 10 and fewer presentations.

3 Your criteria are

-          the presentation: how new, useful and memorable you found it for your speaking practice

-          preparation: how innovative you found methods of presenting facts and strategies of
retaining skills; effort invested in rehearsing



Sep. 30: Introduction. Constituents of a good spoken performance.

              Spelling and pronunciation: The Chaos.

              A collection of pronunciation errors.

              Spacing presentations. A nursery rhyme.


Oct. 7: Revision of nursery rhyme. Segmental exercises.


Oct. 14: Tongue twisters.


Oct. 21: Stress patterns.


Oct. 28: Bank holiday.


Nov. 4: The Chaos.


Nov. 11: Presentations: Polák, Hladká, Bačinská.


Nov. 18: Böhm, Cignini, Ramundo.


Nov. 25: Presentations: Barotová, M.+ V.Hradilová, Hromádková


Dec. 2: Presentations: Ficner, Krejzlíková, Marková, Oškrdalová.


Dec. 9: Presentations: Bambušek, Raszková, Pernicová.


Dec. 16: Conclusions, assessments.