VŠTE:S_ENG_3 English language III - Course Information

S_ENG_3 English language III

Extent and Intensity

2/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Libuše Turinská (seminar tutor)

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

S_ENG_3/S01: Tue 11:25–12:55 N007, L. Turinská

Prerequisites

OBOR ( CAP )
recommended achieving the B1 level according to CEFR

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

Lecture
Exercise
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

Activities	Number of Hours of Study Workload
	Daily Study	Combined Study
Continuous evaluation	21
Preparation for Lectures	26
Preparation for Seminars, Exercises, Tutorial	30
Preparation for the Final Test	26
final test	1
Attendance on Lectures	26
Attendance on Seminars/Exercises/Tutorial/Excursion	26
Total:	156	0

Assessment Methods and Assesment Rate

Semester test 30 % (25 % speaking exam, 5 % written test) 30 %
Final test using ROPOT in the IS 70 %

Exam conditions

Grading of the course both for full-time students: an exam during the semester, written test in the examination period. Successful graduates of the course have to get at least 70 points (from both parts together).

Continuous evaluation:

Semester test 30 % (25 % speaking exam, 5 % written test)

Final test:

Final test using ROPOT in the IS (70 %)

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught each semester.
General note: Erasmus.

Teacher's information

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.

Lessons will be a combination of prerecorded videos and powerpoint presentations accessible in the IS during the semester (45 min) and online teaching (practising, reviewing, consultations - 45 min) via MS Teams, with both video and audio recording.

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