PřF:JA001 Examination in English for Spe - Course Information

JA001 Examination in English for Specific Purposes - Science

Extent and Intensity

0/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Anna Bízková Doleželová (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Eva Čoupková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Daniela Dlabolová (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Markéta Dudová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Jana Kubrická, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Monika Ševečková, Ph.D. (assistant)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Eva Čoupková, Ph.D.
Language Centre, Faculty of Science Division – Language Centre
Contact Person: Lenka Pavlíková
Supplier department: Language Centre, Faculty of Science Division – Language Centre

Prerequisites

FAKULTA(PřF) && !NOWANY( JASUZ Examination in English for Specific Purposes - Science )&&(!ROCNIK(1) && (!PROGRAM(B-ANT) || !PROGRAM(B-EMB) || !PROGRAM(B-EKB) || !PROGRAM(B-BIC) || !PROGRAM(B-ZPZ) || !PROGRAM(B-CHE) || !PROGRAM(B-CKR) || !PROGRAM(B-AEG) || !PROGRAM(B-GEK) || !PROGRAM(B-GEO) || !PROGRAM(B-NAN) || !PROGRAM(B-FYZ) || !PROGRAM(B-MAT) || !PROGRAM(B-DAE) || !PROGRAM(B-MBB)))
The knowledge of English - B1 level CEFR - English for specific purposes

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives

The exam assesses student´s ability to
understand specialized texts/discourse
identify key ideas
formulate key ideas
transfer information from the text
talk on common topics and those related to their field of study
orally summarise a simple text related to their field of study
classify, describe cause and effect, compare, explain concepts

Learning outcomes

The exam assesses student´s ability to
understand specialized texts/discourse
identify key ideas
formulate key ideas
transfer information from the text
talk on common topics and those related to their field of study
orally summarise a simple text related to their field of study
classify, describe cause and effect, compare, define

Syllabus

• Written part:
• 1) Test a) Listening b) Grammar (forming questions, word formation, a selection of B1 grammar phenomena, coherence and cohesion) c) Text analysis (logical linking and specialised expressions)
• 2) Writing an academic email (80-120 words) as specified in the instructions
• Oral part: The exam assesses student´s ability to communicate in English and to talk on specific topics related to their field of study. The exam is done in pairs. Each student is assigned a short text to read and take notes about. Subsequently, students mediate the topic of their text speaking from notes. The texts discuss specialised topics using the following language functions: 1. Explaining concepts. 2. Describing a process, experiment, cycle or a notion. 3. Comparing and contrasting phenomena from your field of study. 4. Classifying systems in your field of study. 5. Describing a cause and effect relationship from your field of study.
• https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/sci/jaro2024/JA001/index.qwarp

Literature

• MCCARTHY, Michael and Felicity O'DELL. Academic vocabulary in use. First published. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 176 stran. ISBN 9780521689397. info
• Science.Keith Kelly.Macmillan 2008
• MASCULL, Bill. Key words in science & technology : helping learners with real English. 1st pub. London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1997, xii, 210. ISBN 0003750981. info
• Academic writing course :study skills in English. Edited by R.R Jordan. 1st ed. Essex: Longman, 1999, 160 s. ISBN 0-582-40019-8. info
• DONOVAN, Peter. Basic English for Science. 10. vyd. Oxford: University Press, 1994, 153 s. ISBN 0-19-457180-7. info
• Nucleus ; English for science and technology. Edited by Martin Bates - Tony Dudley-Evans. info
• English for science. Edited by Fran Zimmerman. New Jersey : Regents/Prentice Hall, 1989
• Physics:Reader.Ivana Tulajová, Masarykova univerzita Přírodovědecká fakulta 2000
• STRAHLER, Alan H. and Arthur Newell STRAHLER. Introducing physical geography. 4th ed. Hoboken, N.J.: J. Wiley, 2006, xxv, 728. ISBN 047167950X. info
• PLUMMER, Charles C. and David MCGEARY. Physical geology :student study art notebook. 7th ed. Dubuque: Wm. C. Brown Communications, 1996, 161 s. ISBN 0-697-28732-7. info
• DEAN, Michael and Anna SIKORZYŃSKA. Opportunities., Intermediate., Language powerbook. Harlow: Pearson Education, 2000, 112 s. : i. ISBN 0-582-42142-X. info
• CUNNINGHAM, Sarah and Bill BOWLER. Headway : intermediate : pronunciation. 1. vyd. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990, xi, 112 s. ISBN 1-943396-88-4. info
• MURPHY, Raymond. Essential grammar in use : a self-study reference and practice book for elementary students of English : with answers. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, xi, s. ISBN 9780521675437. info
• MURPHY, Raymond. Essential grammar in use : a self-study reference and practice book for intermediate students : with answers. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, x, 350. ISBN 052143680X. info
• +Any materials aimed at preparation for B1 level examinations (e.g.PET).

Bookmarks

https://is.muni.cz/ln/tag/PříF:JA001!

Teaching methods

written and oral exam

Assessment methods

a written test, writing tasks and an oral exam - 60% passing grade for each individual part

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught each semester.

Listed among pre-requisites of other courses

• Bi1000 Introduction to study of ecological and evolutionary biology
  NOW(CST:CJV_DIAL)||CST:CJV_DIAL||JA001||JA002  
• Bi3001 Bachelor thesis EMB 1
  Bi4020 || JA001 || JA002 || JA001A && NOW(Bi3330) || NOW(Bi3332) || NOW(Bi3334) || NOW(Bi3336) || NOW(Bi3338)  
• Bi3002 Bachelor thesis EMB 2
  JA001 || JA002 || JA001A && Bi3330 || Bi3332 || Bi3334 || Bi3336 || Bi3338 && NOW(Bi3331) || NOW(Bi3333) || NOW(Bi3335) || NOW(Bi3337) || NOW(Bi3339)  
• Bi5002 Bachelor thesis
  JA001  
• Bi5004 Bachelor's thesis I
  JA001 || JA002 || JA001A  
• Bi5005 Bachelor thesis I
  JA001 || JA002 || JA001A  
• Bi5009BZ Bachelor thesis of biology I ( teachers of biology)
  JA001 || JA002 || NOW(JA001) || NOW(JA002)  
• Bi5009EB Bachelor thesis of biology I ( teachers of biology)
  JA001 || JA002 || NOW(JA001) || NOW(JA002)  
• Bi5200 Botany & ecology bachelor thesis I.
  JA001 || JA002 || JA001A  

Zobrazit další předměty

• Bi5490 Bachelor Thesis LGMD I
  JA001 || JA002 || JA001A || Bi4020  
• Bi5831 Bachelor thesis of ecological and evolutionary biology I
  (Bi1030) && (Bi2090) && (Bi1090) && (Bi2030) && (Bi5080) && (JA001 || JA002 || JA001A)  
• Bi6016EB Bachelor thesis of biology I (teachers of biology)
  (JA001 || JA002 || JA001A) && Bi5009EB  
• Bi6100 Bachelor Thesis II
  JA001 || JA002 || JA001A  
• E5010 Bachelor thesis for Environment & Health I
  JA001 || JA002  
• E5011 Final Project Environment & Health I
  JA001 || JA002  
• E5012 Bachelor thesis I
  JA001 || JA002 || JA001A || JAB05 || JAB01  
• G1011 Introductory geological concentration
  !G1011k && !NOW(G1011k) && (!PROGRAM(B-GE) || (NOW(G0101)&&NOW(C7777)&& (NOW(CST:cjv_dial)||CST:cjv_dial||JA001||JA002||JAG01||JAG02)))  
• G1021 Physical geology
  !G1021k && !NOW(G1021k) && (!PROGRAM(B-GE) || (NOW(G0101) && NOW(C7777) && (NOW(CST:CJV_DIAL)||CST:CJV_DIAL||JA001||JA002||JAG01||JAG02)))  
• G1021k Physical geology
  !G1021 && !NOW(G1021) && (!PROGRAM(B-GE) || (NOW(G0101) && NOW(C7777) && (NOW(CST:CJV_DIAL)||CST:CJV_DIAL||JA001||JA002||JAG01||JAG02)))  
• G1061 Mineralogy
  !G1061k && !NOW(G1061k) && (!PROGRAM(B-GE) || (NOW(G0101) && NOW(C7777) && (NOW(CST:CJV_DIAL)||CST:CJV_DIAL||JA001||JA002||JAG01||JAG02)))  
• G1061k Mineralogy
  (!G1061) && (!NOW(G1061)) && (!PROGRAM(B-GE) || (NOW(G0101) && NOW(C7777) && (NOW(CST:CJV_DIAL)||CST:CJV_DIAL||JA001||JA002||JAG01||JAG02)))  
• G1081 Palaeontology
  !G1081k && !NOW(G1081k) && (!PROGRAM(B-GE) || (NOW(G0101) && NOW(C7777) && (JA001||JA002||JAG01||JAG02||CST:CJV_DIAL||NOW(CST:CJV_DIAL))))  
• G1081k Palaeontology
  !G1081 && !NOW(G1081) && (!PROGRAM(B-GE) || (NOW(G0101) && NOW(C7777) && (NOW(CST:CJV_DIAL)||CST:CJV_DIAL||JA001||JA002||JAG01||JAG02)))  
• G1101 Principles of Geophysics
  !G1101k && !NOW(G1101k) && (!PROGRAM(B-GE) || (NOW(G0101) && NOW(C7777) && (NOW(CST:CJV_DIAL)||CST:CJV_DIAL||JA001||JA002||JAG01||JAG02)))  
• G1101k Principles of Geophysics
  !G1101 && !NOW(G1101) && (!PROGRAM(B-GE) || (NOW(G0101) && NOW(C7777) && (NOW(CST:CJV_DIAL)||CST:CJV_DIAL||JA001||JA002||JAG01||JAG02)))  
• JASUZ Examination in English for Specific Purposes - Science
  rocnik(1) && typ_studia(B) && !forma(C) && !rocnik(2,3,4) && (!program(B-UCB) && !program(B-UCC) && !program(B-UCF) && !program(B-UCM) && !program(B-UCZ) && !program(B-LGM)) && !NOWANY(JA001)  
• Z0003 Bachelor Thesis 1
  kredity_min(90) && (JA001A || JA001 || JA002)  
• Z1035 Seminar - Introduction to the Geography study
  NOW(CST:CJV_DIAL)||CST:CJV_DIAL||JA001||JA002  
• Z5210 Bachelor Thesis 1(teaching of geography)
  kredity_min(90) && (JA001A || JA001 || JA002)  
• Z8150 Bachelor Thesis 1 (cartography)
  kredity_min(90) && (JA001A || JA001 || JA002)  

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