FURTHER REFERENCES AND PRACTICE – BOOKS AND INTERNET SOURCES


General Reading


  * http://www.oup-bookworms.com/find-your-reading-level.cfm#top graded readers in simplified
versions of the original writings, recommended levels: B1 towards B2, C1


  * General Reading Comprehension – some tips for contemporary English fiction writing (AmE, BrE)


Minette Walters: The Shape of Snakes- prejudice, racism

                                             The Devil´s Feather – Iraq, journalist, their job,
violence

John Grisham:

The Appeal

The Pelican Brief

             The Client

The Partner

             The Firm


Kate Atkinson: Case Histories


Stephen Clarke: A Year in the Merde


Ian Rankin (BrE):

Fleshmarket Close

            The Naming of the Dead

Bleeding Hearts   (writing as Jack Harvey)

Mortal Causes

Blood Hunt   (writing as Jack Harvey)   for more see “Ian Rankin” at .org


Simon Mawer (BrE): Glass Room, Mendel´s Dwarf


Robin Cook (AmE) – referred to as a the founder of medical thriller genre

novels such as Critical, Outbreak, Toxins and others, some of them made into feature films, for
more see “Robin Cook” at wikipedia.org


            British English medical reading and news at

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/health


http://www.bbc.com/news/health-21179462




Vocabulary

English Vocabulary in Use Upper-Intermediate to Advanced McCarthy and O´Dell, Cambridge Uni Press


English Vocabulary Organiser, Chris Gough, Thomson publ. house


Professional English in Use: Medicine, Glendinning and Howard, Cambridge University Press

Writing
  * iWriter – additional material to Oxford Advanced Learner´s Dictionary CD-ROM



Listening


  * FCE Past Examination Papers



  * Skills for FCE Listening and Speaking, Malcolm Mann and Steve Taylore-Knowles, Macmillan
Publishing House, 2003


  * www.talkingmedicine.com features a number of short and long medical listenings


  * any popular or medical-popular series  Gray´s Anatomy, Scrubs, House etc. to be

            watched over the internet or elsewhere

            for more check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_drama


  * http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/


http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/2014/03/140320_6min_male_female
_brain.shtml
  * http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/healthCHECK - RECENT TOPIC PODCASTS AND DOWNLOADS
  *




Grammar

Raymond Murphy – English Grammar in Use, Cambridge University Press with answers and CD-ROM (posted
in elearning website as ebook)- a reliable grammar source for B2 learners

Grammar book for intermediate students based on problem areas typical for Czech speakers


Hewings: Advanced Grammar in Use – a reliable grammar source for B2, post-B2 and C1 learners


Grammar No Problem: 50 praktických lekcí anglické gramatiky s cvičeními a klíčem, Christine House,
published by Fraus



Help for English www.helpforenglish.cz – general website with a number of grammar activities by
Czech teachers of English


Angličtina online zdarma http://www.e-gramatica.com/ presents grammar rules with a special interest
in verbs and word order as perceived by Czech speakers


http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/200/grammar/ by Canadian University of Victoria, presents
English grammar practical activities aimed at university students


Seven Ways of Looking at Grammar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp8QSGcS0QI shows a presentation by
Scott Thornbury, an internationally recognized academic and teacher trainer in the field of English
Language Teaching (ELT), looking at basics of the English grammar




Pronuciation

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/



Dictionaries

MEDICAL TECHNICAL VOCABULARY Free Online Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com one of many
online monolingual dictionaries offering complex explanations to individual dictionary entries


GENERAL ENGLISH VOCABULARY Oxford Advanced Learner´s Dictionary
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com


http://dictionary.cambridge.org/


http://www.macmillandictionary.com/


http://www.ldoceonline.com/






Academic English

Akademická angličtina: průvodce anglickým jazykem pro studenty, akademiky a vědce; Libor Štěpánek,
Janice de Haaff a kolektiv, Grada Publishing, 2011


UEFAP http://www.uefap.com/reading/readfram.htm academic reading guide for university students
including theory as well as practice


Reading skills for university http://www.yorku.ca/cds/lss/skillbuilding/reading.html offers a great
variety of advice to university students in terms of text analysis and comprehension (by York
University, Canada)


Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ an open-access database of about 33,000 books to be
accessed free

Google Scholar http://scholar.google.cz/ an easy-access database comprising professional literature



Speaking

Text-to-Speech http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php webpage helping with
pronunciation in case we are not certain about the sound of individual words

Speaking Situations http://www.eslgold.com/speaking/giving_instructions.html a webpage offering
practical activities to train typical phrases for selected situations. Comes with a number of
difficulty levels and it is based on repetition

UEFAP http://www.uefap.com/speaking/spkfram.htm  speaking practice in academic contexts



Online Test Practice:


www.floe-joe.co.uk


http://www.oxfordenglishtesting.com/DefaultMR.aspx?id=3034&menuId=1


+ FCE test Plus with Key ebook (posted in elearning website)



“share knowledge” website TED – TECHNOLOGY, ENTERTAINMENT, DESIGN

http://www.ted.com/pages/about