FF:AJ11606 Collocations B - Course Information
AJ11606 Collocations B
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Jarmila Fictumová (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Wed 12:30–14:05 G22
- Prerequisites
- AJ09999 Qualifying Examination || AJ01002 Practical English II
Qualifying Examination basic computer skills - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- A topic-based course aimed at idiomatic vocabulary expansion, using skills acquired in Collocations A. The focus of this course is not translation but the study of new expressions and the company they keep. The aim is to teach the students to use various corpora to help them find answers to language queries. There are two coursebooks: Idioms in Use and Idioms Workbook.
- Syllabus
- Family, Home; IU 1-6; VO 1,2
- Food, Shopping; IU 7-12; VO 3,4
- Clothes, Work and Leisure; IU 13-18; VO 5,6
- Comunication, Town and Village; IU 19-24; VO 7,8
- Sightseeing, Travel; IU 25-30; VO 9,10
- Farming, Climate; IU 31-36; VO 11,12
- Nature, The Human Body; IU 37-42; VO 13,14
- Health, Sport; IU 43-48; VO 15, 16
- Media, Culture; IU 49-54; VO 17
- Education, Modern Society; IU 55-60
- Literature
- MCCARTHY, Michael and Felicity O'DELL. English idioms in use. 5th print. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 190 s. ISBN 0521789575. info
- Dictionary of selected collocations. Edited by Christian Douglas Kozłowska - Halina Dzierżanowska - Jimmie Hill - M. Hove: LTP - Language teaching publications, 1997, 288 s. ISBN 1-899396-55-1. info
- Oxford collocations dictionary : for students of English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, xiii, 897. ISBN 0194312437. info
- Macmillan english dictionary :for advanced learners. 1st ed. Oxford: Macmillan, 2002, xiv, 1692. ISBN 0-333-99093-5. info
- Dictionary of idioms (Variant.) : Collins Cobuild dictionary of idioms. info
- English-czech dictionary of idioms : Anglicko-český slovník idiomů. info
- The Oxford dictionary of idioms. Edited by Jennifer Speake. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, 393 s. ISBN 0192801112. info
- KROULÍK, Břetislav and Barbora KROULÍKOVÁ. English-czech dictionary of idioms. Vyd. 1. Praha: Svoboda-Libertas, 1993, 203 s. ISBN 8020502343. info
- Dictionary of idioms. Edited by John Sinclair. 1. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1997, xvii, 493. ISBN 0-00-370946-9. info
- Teaching methods
- class sessions in a computer room; weekly homework assignments and tests
- Assessment methods
- Weekly assignments.
Grading will be broken down
as follows:
Test I: 20%
Test II: 20%
Final assignment: 40%
Homework: 20%
Total: 100% - Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
- Information about innovation of course.
- This course has been innovated under the project "Faculty of Arts as Centre of Excellence in Education: Complex Innovation of Study Programmes and Fields at FF MU with Regard to the Requirements of the Knowledge Economy“ – Reg. No. CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0228, which is cofinanced by the European Social Fond and the national budget of the Czech Republic.
- Teacher's information
- http://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/view.php?id=402
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2013, recent)
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