VV053 English for Academic Purposes II

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 2007
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
James Edward Thomas, M.A. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. Ing. Václav Přenosil, CSc.
Faculty of Informatics
Timetable
Tue 10:00–11:50 B204, Wed 10:00–11:50 B204
Prerequisites
PROGRAM(D-IN)
Students are expected to have passed all English language requirements for the "Magister" course.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This is a blended-learning course. The class meets once a week for two hours to undertake language learning activities as set out in the course book and additional activities. Homework is checked, and speaking and listening activities are performed. The distance learning component is mediated through Moodle and further language learning activities are engaged in. These include working through online drills and exercises, collaborative writing tasks, language discovery tasks particicular via corpus analysis, e-seminars in the form of forum discussions and the use of online dictionaries to create hypertext reading activities. The course is taught in two streams: one for those entering their PhD studies and the other for continuing students.
Syllabus
  • Both streams use Ready for First Certificate, Roy Norris, Macmillan 2001 Stream One: Unit Two Language Focus – indirect questions, gerunds/infinitives. Vocabulary – music, sports Reading – mulitple matching Writing – transactional letter, articles. Use of English – word formation. Listening – blank filling, multiple choice. Stream Two: Unit Eight Language Focus – The future and time linkers Vocabulary – travel, phrasal verbs. Reading – gapped text, mulitple choice. Writing – compositions, articles. Use of English – word formation, multiple choice cloze, transformations. Listening – multiple choice. Speaking – interview, talking about photos. Both streams undertake a range of supplementary activities. These include extensive dictionary work, collocates of academic vocabulary, learning to learn activities, grammar of vocabulary, introductory it construction.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Successful completion of this course involves attending and contributing, doing the weekly homework, submitting the writing tasks and using the online activities. As well, there will be a test on the content of the semester.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught each semester.
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