SA_ACJ_3 Foreign English Language III

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. Libuše Turinská (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Daniel Raušer (assistant)
Mgr. Petr Sádlo (assistant)
Mgr. Karim Sidibe (assistant)
Mgr. Jana Vlasáková (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
SA_ACJ_3/S01: Mon 13:05–14:35 N106, L. Turinská
Prerequisites
OBOR ( CAP ) && SA_ACJ_2 Foreign English language II
recommended level B1
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
  • 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
Seminar
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
Preparation for the Mid-term Test16 
Preparation for Seminars, Exercises, Tutorial16 
Preparation for the Final Test18 
semestral test1 
final test1 
Attendance on Seminars/Exercises/Tutorial/Excursion52 
Total:1040
Assessment Methods and Assesment Rate
semestral exam 30 %
Final test 70 %
Exam conditions
Grading of the course: Semestral exam: 0 - 30 points;

Final test: 0 - 70 points;

successful graduates of the course have to achieve a total of at least 70 points.

Please note that the final test includes questions within the range of the B1+ level (not only based on the textbook).

Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
Classes will have a form of consultations 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 of the lectures, for full-time students to attend 70 % lesson of the subject in a semester. Semestral exam is passed during before the end of instruction period, final test has a written paper or online form and is taken during the exam period.

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