SPOKEN FLUENCY A, B               AUTUMN 2010


Location and time: Room G21, Tuesday  A 13:20-14:50

                                                                    B 15:00-16:30

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

office hours: Tue 12-13 and 17-18, Wed 13-14, Thu 15:30-16:30.


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 difference between them if you were present to 9 or 10 presentations,

- 4 pts difference between them if you witnessed 7 or 8 presentations,

- 5 pts gap if you heard 5 or 6 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



Oct.   5: Introduction. Constituents of a good spoken (x written)

              performance. Knowledge x skill. Automaticity.

              Spelling and pronunciation: The Chaos.

              A collection of pronunciation errors.

              A nursery rhyme.

Oct. 12: Revision of nursery rhyme. Segmental exercises.

              Presentation dates.

Oct. 19: Tongue twisters. Stress patterns.

Oct. 26: Presentations A: Tomková, Obrusník, Hamšík.

                                     B: Tomková, Ptašková.

Nov. 2: Presentations A: Kramlová, Koudelková

                                    B: Buchtová, Murajdová, Čechová.

Nov. 9: Presentations A: Ščípová, Vrzalíková, Šafrancová.

                                    B: Bodnárová, Belejová, Bobková.

Nov. 16: Reading Week, no class.

Nov. 23: Presentations A: Varga, Terynková, Mašura.

                                      B: Cisár, Dvořák, Keclíková.

Nov. 30: Presentations A: Smištíková, Urbanová,

                                      B: Čajková, Hanzalová, Schöfrová, Halfarová.

Dec. 7: Presentations A: Binderová, Rozkošová, Klimovičová.

                                    B: Kučera, Pelcová, Hložková.

Dec. 14: Feedback class, assessments.