VŠTE:AJP_1 English First I - Course Information

AJP_1 English First I

Extent and Intensity

0/4/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

PhDr. Jan Gregor, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Jindřiška Kraťková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Daniel Raušer (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Petr Sádlo (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Karim Sidibe (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Věra Sládková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Libuše Turinská (seminar tutor)
Bc. David Šilha (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

AJP_1/CAP_kombi: Sat 9. 4. 9:40–12:10 A3, V. Sládková

Prerequisites (in Czech)

OBOR(CAP)

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives supported by learning outcomes

The target of the course is an integration of the input level of students'language skills minimally at A2+ to B1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Langugages. After the successful completion of the course, the students will be able to: - actively use and understand sentences and expressions related to the basic fields which closely concern the students (basic information about themselves, their studies, their families, shopping,topography and job, habits, etc.) - implement a simple and direct information exchange on well known and common situations - describe the family, studies, his/her neighbourhood and other phenomena concerning his/her needs. - write a short essay on a general topic.

Syllabus

• 1. Common life situations, present simple (word order in questions)
• 2. Studies (classroom language),family, present simple, describing personality (personality adjectives),describing yourself
• 3. Travelling (airport), present continuous, defining relative clauses
• 4. Holidays, prepositions of time and place, past simple
• 5. Describing a photo, picture, art, past continuous
• 6. Music (modern music), questions with and without auxiliaries (presents simple, present continuous)
• 7. In a hotel, writing (describing a photo)
• 8. Future - going to, future - using present continuous, future plans
• 9. Will/won't, future predictions, opposite verbs
• 10. Will/won't, promises, offers, decisions, word stress
• 11. Present perferct - experience + ever, never, yet, just, already, clothes
• 12. Comparatives, superlatives, time expressions
• 13. Revision of tenses • Verbs • Pronouns • Word order • Numerals • Prepositions • Other grammar • Revision (Units 1. - 4.)

Literature

required literature
• Náhradní obsah: BLOOM, B., SMIDOWICZ, V., City&Guilds International English for Speakers of Other Languages 3 Achiever Student's Book New Edition + audio CD 2005, 168 s., ISBN: 9780851931630
• OXENDEN, C., KOENIG-LATHAM, C. SELIGSON, P. New English File Pre-intermediate, Oxford University Press 2007, 167 s. ISBN 0-19-438433-0

recommended literature
• KOLEKTIV AUTORŮ, Eurolingua English 2. Plzeň: Fraus 2008, 191 s. ISBN 80-7238-062-1.
• COLLYAH, B. Anglicko-český, česko-anglický slovník. 4. vydání. Praha : Fin, 2008.
• MURPHY, R., Essential Grammar in Use. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007. 319 s. ISBN 978-0-521-67543-7

Forms of Teaching

Seminar
Tutorial
Consultation

Teaching Methods

Frontal Teaching
Group Teaching - Cooperation
Project Teaching
Individual Work– Individual or Individualized Activity
Teaching Supported by Multimedia Technologies

Student Workload

Activities	Number of Hours of Study Workload
	Daily Study	Combined Study
Preparation for Seminars, Exercises, Tutorial	28	60
Preparation for the Final Test	40	50
preparation for the short speech	10
Attendance on Seminars/Exercises/Tutorial/Excursion	52	20
Total:	130	130

Assessment Methods and Assesment Rate

test 70 %
dialog 30 %
part-time students- test 100 %

Exam conditions

Grading of the course for full-time students: Final Test 70% (0 – 70 points) and dialogue 30% (0-30). The final test requires 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 together). Part-time students: Final Test: maximum 100% (0-100 points) Successful graduates of the course have to get totally at least 70 points (70%).

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.

• Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2016, recent)
  
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