ACJ_3 English as a Foreign Language 3

Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice
winter 2020
Extent and Intensity
0/4/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Olga Kendall (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Daniel Raušer (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Petr Sádlo (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Libuše Turinská (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Jana Vlasáková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Karim Sidibe (assistant)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Libuše Turinská
Centre of language services – Faculty of Corporate Strategy – Rector – Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice
Supplier department: Centre of language services – Faculty of Corporate Strategy – Rector – Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice
Timetable of Seminar Groups
ACJ_3/A7a: Sat 17. 10. 8:00–9:30 B2, 9:40–11:10 B2, 11:25–12:55 B2, Sun 1. 11. 13:05–14:35 B3, 14:50–16:20 B3, Sat 14. 11. 9:40–11:10 B3, 11:25–12:55 B3, 13:05–14:35 B3, Sat 28. 11. 16:30–18:00 B3, 18:00–19:40 B3, D. Raušer
ACJ_3/A7b: Sat 17. 10. 8:00–9:30 B3, 9:40–11:10 B3, 11:25–12:55 B3, Sat 31. 10. 9:40–11:10 B3, 11:25–12:55 B3, Sun 15. 11. 8:00–9:30 E1, 9:40–11:10 E1, 11:25–12:55 E1, Sat 28. 11. 8:00–9:30 B3, 9:40–11:10 B3, L. Turinská
ACJ_3/S01: Wed 14:50–16:20 N107, Thu 9:40–11:10 N214, L. Turinská
ACJ_3/S02: Tue 8:00–9:30 N011, Thu 8:00–9:30 N107, J. Vlasáková
ACJ_3/S03: Thu 14:50–16:20 N007, Thu 16:30–18:00 N007, O. Kendall
ACJ_3/S04: Tue 8:00–9:30 N107, Thu 8:00–9:30 N109, P. Sádlo
ACJ_3/S05: Thu 14:50–16:20 N107, Thu 16:30–18:00 N107, J. Vlasáková
Prerequisites
meeting the requirements and recommended completion of the following subjects: ACJ_1 and ACJ_2 (B1 level)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives supported by learning outcomes
The course objective is to deepen B1 language skills and gradually achieve B1+ according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, enlarge vocabulary and improve listening, reading, speaking and writing skills. After successful completion of the course, the students are able to understand lectures, debates and participate in discussions on general topics/topics of their interest. Students understand TV and radio news, programmes and newspaper/online articles on topical issues. They are fluent and able to express their opinion on a wide range of topics.
Learning outcomes
Having successfully completed the subject, the students will be able to: - communicate their enquiries more extensively and explain given problems; - provide specific information required in an interview or a consultation; - summarise or express (orally or in a written form) their opinion about a short story, article, discussion or documentary and answer further questions in detail; - carry out a prepared interview, listen and check the information mentioned, though it may be occasionally necessary to ask for repetition if the other person’s response is rapid or extended; - describe how to do various activities and give detailed instructions; - exchange the content of accumulated factual information on familiar (routine) and non-routine matters within their field or area of interest.
Syllabus
  • 1. Food, meals, restaurants 2. Present simple and continuous 3. Action and non-action verbs 4. Sports and cheating 5. Past tenses 6. Family and personality 7. Future tenses 8. Money 9. Present perfect vs past simple 10. Life changes 11. Present perfect continuous 12. Strong and base adjectives 13. Comparatives and superlatives, transport, means of transport 14. Modern manners; 15. Modal verbs for expressing recommendation and obligation 16. Mobile phones, communication technologies 17. Describing people 18. Modal verbs for expressing possibility 18. Success and failure, be able to x can, could 19. Adjectives ended in -ed/-ing 20. Education 21. First conditional 22. time clauses 23. Houses and living 24. Used to, usually 25. Friendship, human relations 26. Revision
Literature
    required literature
  • LATHAM-KOENIG, Christina. New English file: Intermediate. Student's book. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 9780194519106.
    recommended literature
  • MURPHY, Raymond. English grammar in use: a self-study reference and practice book for intermediate learners of English : with answers. 4th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, x, 380 s. ISBN 978-0-521-18906-4.
Forms of Teaching
Exercise
Tutorial
Consultation
Teaching Methods
Frontal Teaching
Group Teaching - Cooperation
Project Teaching
Individual Work– Individual or Individualized Activity
Teaching Supported by Multimedia Technologies
E-learning
Student Workload
ActivitiesNumber of Hours of Study Workload
Daily StudyCombined Study
Semester exam11 
Preparation for Seminars, Exercises, Tutorial2850
Preparation for the Final Test1233
final test11
Attendance on Seminars/Exercises/Tutorial/Excursion5220
Total:104104
Assessment Methods and Assesment Rate
Test – final 70 %
Semester exam 30 %
Exam conditions
Full-time form of study

Final Test 70 % (0 – 70 points) and semester exam 30% (0-30). The final test requires the B1+ level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Successful graduates of the course have to get totally at least 70 points (from both parts of tests).

Semester exam

Presentation - 30 % (i.e. 30 points)

Final test

Final test - 70 % (i.e. 70 points)

Part-time form of study

Final Test 100 % (0 – 100 points). Successful graduates of the course have to get totally at least 70 points.

Final test

Final test - 100 % (i.e. 100 points)

Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Teacher's information
Seminars will be pre-recorded and saved in the VSTE IS where it will be available, students will be able to play them anytime. The remaining part will take place in real time, when the students will discuss the relevant topic / problem with the teacher via MS Teams.

Attendance in lessons is defined in a separate internal standard of the ITB (Evidence of attendance of students at ITB). It is compulsory, except for the lectures, for full-time students to attend at least 70 % lesson of the subject in a semester.

The course is also listed under the following terms winter 2017, winter 2018, summer 2019, winter 2019, summer 2020.
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