SPA005 English for hearing impaired students V

Pan-university studies
Autumn 2016
Extent and Intensity
2/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Zuzana Fonioková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Lenka Tóthová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Ilja Rajdová (assistant)
Mgr. et Mgr. Hana Mihai (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Petr Peňáz
Support Centre for Students with Special Needs
Contact Person: Mgr. Ilja Rajdová
Supplier department: Support Centre for Students with Special Needs
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Syllabus
  • Lesson 1 - Student life READING: Going abroad to study (application forms); Ways of effective reading (summary of reading strategies) WRITING: Describing people + informal letter VOCABULARY: Dictionaries (parts of speech); personality GRAMMAR: Tense revision
  • Lesson 2 - Daily routines READING: Work and stress WRITING: routines and procedures, sequencing VOCABULARY: collocations; jobs -er, -or, -ist; word building GRAMMAR: Making questions - revision + indirect questions +reported speech
  • Lesson 3 - People and the environment READING: weather (scanning) WRITING: describing our lives VOCABULARY: weather GRAMMAR: present perfect simple / continuous - revision
  • Lesson 4 – Urban life READING: Famous buildings (text cohesion) WRITING: describing buildings (linking ideas) VOCABULARY: urban life GRAMMAR: revision of conditionals
  • Lesson 5 - Education READING: Universities (predicting; linking ideas); making notes WRITING: formal letters and emails VOCABULARY: irregular plurals; university life GRAMMAR: conjunctions
  • Lesson 6 - Technology READING: Inventions (websites) WRITING: Describing things (definitions, descriptions) VOCABULARY: Spelling; verbs often confused GRAMMAR: relative clauses; conjunctions; Verbs followed by infinitives and by gerunds
  • Lesson 7 - Food, drink, and culture READING: Food from other countries (topic sentences, writer’s opinion) WRITING: describing food and drink - recipe + punctuation VOCABULARY: food and cooking; prefixes GRAMMAR: be used to / get used to / used to do
  • Lesson 8 - Cities of the world READING: City life (getting facts from a text) WRITING: Comparing data; writing about cities VOCABULARY: word formation; towns and cities GRAMMAR: revision comparatives and superlatives of adjectives and adverbs
  • Lesson 9 - Brain power READING: A healthy brain (synonyms, making notes); books WRITING: Notes and summaries VOCABULARY: human body GRAMMAR: Passive voice
  • Lesson 10 – Where in the world…? READING: Three countries (skimming and scanning) WRITING: Writing a description of my country VOCABULARY: countries and languages; the compass GRAMMAR: „the“ with geographical names
Literature
  • GAIRNS, Ruth and Stuart REDMAN. Oxford word skills. 1st publ. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, 254 s. ISBN 9780194620079. info
  • HARRISON, Richard. New Headway academic skills : level 1 student's book : reading, writing, and study skills. 1st publ. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 71 s. ISBN 9780194715584. info
  • PHILPOT, Sarah. New Headway academic skills : level 2 student's book : reading, writing, and study skills. 1st publ. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 71 s. ISBN 9780194715676. info
Teaching methods
individual work and pair-work activities, e-learning (elf), homework assignments, writing assignments mostly at home + analyses of written assignments
Assessment methods
For credit (z): end-of-course written test (grammar, vocabulary, and reading; max. 100 points; Pass: min. 60%
For exam (zk): end-of-course written test; max. 100 points; Pass: min. 60%
To pass, you need to score min. 60 points in the test. You also have to attend the classes (max. absences allowed per semester: 2 for regular students; 20% of planned class sessions for distance students) and fulfill all the requirements set by your teacher (homework and others).
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2021.
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