SPAJ004 English for hearing impaired students IV

Pan-university studies
Spring 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/2. 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. Ilja Rajdová (assistant)
Mgr. Klára Bicanová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Lenka Křivánková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Jitka Sedláčková, Ph.D. (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
Timetable of Seminar Groups
SPAJ004/A: Mon 23. 2. to Fri 15. 5. Mon 15:00–16:35 108, Thu 26. 2. to Fri 15. 5. Thu 15:30–17:05 110, J. Sedláčková, Nepřihlašuje se. Určeno pro studenty se zdravotním postižením.
Prerequisites
hearing impairment; SPAJ002 English for hearing impaired students III or placement based on the result of a placement test taken at the Teiresias Centre
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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Course objectives
The course objective is to enhance the students' skills of reading and writing, especially in academic context. It also aims at improving the students' grammar and vocabulary (approx. B2 level).
Syllabus
  • Lesson 1 - Student life
  • READING: Ways or reading; WRITING: Describing people; VOCABULARY: Dictionaries (parts of speech); personality; GRAMMAR: Tense revision
  • Lesson 2 - Daily routines
  • READING: Work and stress; WRITING: routines and procedures; 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 - Architecture
  • READING: Famous buildings (making notes); WRITING: describing buildings (linking ideas); VOCABULARY: dictionaries 2 (entries); countable and uncountable nouns; houses; GRAMMAR: Revision of conditionals
  • Lesson 5 - Education; READING: Universities (predicting; linking ideas); making notes; WRITING: Formal letters and emails; VOCABULARY: plurals; education; GRAMMAR: conjunctions
  • Lesson 6 - Technology
  • READING: Inventions (websites); WRITING: Describing things (definitions, descriptions); VOCABULARY: Spelling; verbs often confused; GRAMMAR: relative clauses; conjunctions;
  • Lesson 7 - Food, drink, and culture
  • READING: Food from other countries (topic sentences, writer’s opinion); WRITING: describing food and drink (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 - International student
  • READING: Going abroad to study (application forms); effective reading (summary of reading strategies); WRITING: A host family (informal email); VOCABULARY: countries and languages; the compass; GRAMMAR: the with geographical names
Literature
  • Harrison, Richard. Headway Academic Skills. Reading, Writing, and Study Skills. Level 1 Student’s Book. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006.
  • Oxenden, Clive, and Christina Latham-Koenig. New English File Upper-intermediate Student's Book. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008.
  • Harrison, Richard. Headway Academic Skills. Reading, Writing, and Study Skills. Level 2 Student’s Book. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006.
  • Oxenden, Clive, and Christina Latham-Koenig. New English File Upper-intermediate Workbook. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008.
  • MILLER, Judy L. and Robert F. COHEN. Reason to write : strategies for success in academic writing. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, x, 178. ISBN 9780194367714. info
Teaching methods
individual, pair and group work
Assessment methods
credit: end-of-course written test
exam: end-of-course written test, in-class essay + discussion about the essay (oral or online chat-based)
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
https://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf2/course/view.php?id=2858
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2015, recent)
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