VŠTE:ACJ_5 English as a Foreign Language - Course Information

ACJ_5 English as a Foreign Language 5

Extent and Intensity

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

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Olga Kendall (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Petr Sádlo (seminar tutor)
Richard Colin Thompson (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Jana Vlasáková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Monika Peka Kolafová (assistant)
Mgr. Daniel Raušer (assistant)
Mgr. Karim Sidibe (assistant)
Mgr. Libuše Turinská (assistant)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Petr Sádlo
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_5/A6: Sat 17. 10. 13:05–14:35 B1, 14:50–16:20 B1, 16:30–18:00 B1, Sat 31. 10. 13:05–14:35 B2, 14:50–16:20 B2, 16:30–18:00 B2, Sat 14. 11. 14:50–16:20 B1, 16:30–18:00 B1, Sat 28. 11. 11:25–12:55 B2, 13:05–14:35 B2, P. Sádlo
ACJ_5/S01: Wed 13:05–14:35 N109, Wed 14:50–16:20 N109, P. Sádlo
ACJ_5/S02: Tue 9:40–11:10 N107, Thu 9:40–11:10 N109, R. Thompson
ACJ_5/S03: Wed 13:05–14:35 N007, Wed 14:50–16:20 N007, O. Kendall
ACJ_5/S04: Tue 9:40–11:10 N011, Thu 9:40–11:10 N107, J. Vlasáková

Prerequisites

meeting the requirements of the subjects ACJ_4 is recommended

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.

Course objectives supported by learning outcomes

The course objective is to improve the language competence level in general language to B2 level according to CEFR in all productive and receptive skills. The students who have completed the course successfully can follow a complicated exchange of opinions, they can understand the majority of films that maintain received pronunciation. They can understand articles and news depicting contemporary problems and texts that belong among contemporary literature. They can take part in the conversation with native speakers and speak fluently and spontaneously. They can explain their point of view concerning contemporary problems and state advantages and disadvantages of various solutions. Their range of vocabulary is sufficient to create clear descriptions, without longer hesitations and with the help of subordinate clauses. They are able to avoid mistakes which could cause misunderstanding. They can initiate, maintain and close the conversation. They are able to conduct a clear, structured and well-developed presentation, in which they highlight the main ideas, include sufficient detail information, develop the ideas and supports them by additional arguments and relevant examples. They are able to write a film, a book or a play review. They are able to paraphrase in order to make up for inadequacies in their vocabulary and grammar both in written and spoken form.

Learning outcomes

Having finished the course, the student will be able: -understand several types of professional and colloquial texts
-deduce the meaning of unknown words from context
-understand detailed information when listening and take notes
-use all English tenses and aspects and create questions in them
-tell various types of stories and express feelings and wishes
-speak about fashion, health, illnesses, films and literature
- create a text with a complicated plot
-write a description, argumentative essay and a story

Syllabus

• 1. Questions and answers, Question formation 2. Do you believe it? Comparative 3. Call the doctor! Illnesses and injuries 4. Older and wiser? Using adjectives as nouns, adjectival order 5. The truth about the air travel, Narrative tenses, Pars perfect continuous, so/such 6. Incredibly short stories, the position of adverbs and adverbial phrases 7. Eco-guilt, future perfect and continuous 8. The survivors' club, unreal conditionals 10. It drives me mad, -ed, ing 11. Regrets, 'wish' structures 12. Revision 13. Revision

Literature

required literature
• LATHAM-KOENIG, C. a C. OXENDEN, 2014. New English File Upper-Intermediate: Third Edition. Oxford University Press, 167 s. ISBN 978-0-19-455874-7.
• BURGESS, S., J. NEWBROOK aj. WILSON, 2008. FCE Gold Plus: exam maximiser with key. Longman, 158 s. ISBN 978-1- 4058-7679-7.
• BURGESS, S., J. NEWBROOK aj. WILSON., 2008. FCE Gold Plus: exam maximiser with key. Longman, 158 s. ISBN 978-1- 4058-7679-7.

recommended literature
• HEWINGS, M., 2013. Advanced grammar in use: a self-study reference and practice book for advanced learners of English : with answers and CDROM. 3rd ed. Cambridge University Press, 294 s. ISBN 978-1-107-69989-2.

Forms of Teaching

Seminar
Tutorial
Consultation

Teaching Methods

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

Student Workload

Activities	Number of Hours of Study Workload
	Daily Study	Combined Study
Semester exam	6
Preparation for Seminars, Exercises, Tutorial	26	50
Preparation for the Final Test	20	34
Attendance on Seminars/Exercises/Tutorial/Excursion	52	20
Total:	104	104

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 B2 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

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.

Students are active during the lessons and perform tasks assigned by teachers. The learning material of ACJ_5 is from 1st to 5th lesson of the textbook. The attendance at lessons is governed by Internal Regulations of ITB (keeping records of students' attendance at ITB). The compulsory attendance for full-time students is 70% at the face-to-face lessons, i.e. all lessons subject to lectures. In the event of failing to meet requirements for 'zápočet' before the deadline, students are entitled to one retake. The examination date for the retake is announced by a specific teacher or guarantor of the subject within the respective exam period. The subject may be recognized as completed according to requirements uploaded to IS.

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