VŠTE:BPE_ACJ_3 English as a foreign language - Course Information

BPE_ACJ_3 English as a foreign language 3

Extent and Intensity

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

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Olga Kendall (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Bc. Gabriela Marková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Petr Sádlo (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Libuše Turinská (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Monika Peka Kolafová (assistant)
Mgr. Daniel Raušer (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

BPE_ACJ_3/E1: Sat 9. 10. 8:00–9:30 B2, 9:40–11:10 B2, Sun 31. 10. 8:00–9:30 B2, 9:40–11:10 B2, 11:25–12:55 B2, Sat 4. 12. 8:00–9:30 B2, 9:40–11:10 B2, 11:25–12:55 B2, G. Marková
BPE_ACJ_3/S01: Wed 8:00–9:30 N107, Fri 11:25–12:55 N109, P. Sádlo
BPE_ACJ_3/S02: Thu 8:00–9:30 N205, Fri 9:40–11:10 N109, P. Sádlo
BPE_ACJ_3/S03: Wed 11:25–12:55 N006, Thu 9:40–11:10 D515, O. Kendall

Prerequisites

ACJ_1a English language I && ACJ_2a English language II
ACJ_1a && ACJ_2a recommended completion of the following subjects: ACJ_1 and ACJ_2 (B1 level)

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Business Economics (programme VŠTE, B_PE) (2)

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 and meals, restaurants;
• 2. Present simple and continuous
• 3. Active and state verbs
• 4. Family, families in the future
• 5. Making predictions; each other
• 6. Personality adjectives;
• 7. Future tenses
• 8. Money;
• 9. Present perfect vs past simple
• 10. Life changes;
• 11. Present perfect continuous
• 12. Base and strong adjectives
• 13. Transport, means of transport
• 14. Comparatives and superlatives (adjectives, adverbs)
• 15. Stereotypes;
• 16. Articles
• 17. Success and failure
• 18. BE ABLE TO, can, could
• 20. Relative pronouns
• 21. Modern manners, communication
• 22. Modal verbs for obligation
• 23. Modals in past
• 24. Superstitions; past tenses (past simple, past continuous, past perfect)
• 25. Přátelství, mezilidské vztahy
• 26. Used a usually

Literature

required literature
• Náhradní obsah: Náhradní obsah: LATHAM-KOENIG, Christina. English file: Intermediate: Third edition. Student's book. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978019451975

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
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

Activities	Number of Hours of Study Workload
	Daily Study	Combined Study
Semestral test	11	25
Preparation for Seminars, Exercises, Tutorial	28	50
Preparation for the Final Test	12	37
Final test	1	1
Attendance on Seminars/Exercises/Tutorial/Excursion	52	16
Total:	104	129

Assessment Methods and Assesment Rate

Test – final 70 %
Ústní zkoušení, poslech a písemný projev (in Czech) 30 %

Exam conditions

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 30 % (i.e. 30 points)

Final test

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

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.

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. Active participation in seminars is required

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