ENGLISH FOR SOCIAL EDUCATORS D
                                                                     – course introduction (JS2018)

topics:

-          People as individuals: intelligence, knowledge, skills & ability (human brain, types of
intelligence, hard skills, soft skills, IQ, EQ)

-          People and society: social roles and social exclusion (teams, team members, bullying,
social experiment)

-          Migration (migration crisis, economic migration, student exchange programmes)

-          Academic writing (text cohesion, text coherence, abstract, etc.)

grammar:
                                          transitional expressions; a, some, any, no; articles;
conditionals; countable, uncountable nouns; phrasal verbs; prepositional phrases; reported speech;
sentence transformations

assessment:

EXAM
PREREQUISITES
                                                                     An argumentative text based on
a class discussion, word count: 250-300 words. Please label the file in the following way. SURNAME
_my abstract. (NOVOTNÝ _my argumentation). DEADLINE 15 APRIL 2018. Please do not upload in the PDF
format!
                                                    A feedback on your colleague's argumentative
text (see above), deadline: 29 APRIL 2018. Please label the file in the following way: SURNAME
reviews SURNAME'S argumentation. (NOVOTNÝ reviews NOVÁK'S abstract). The criteria will be discussed
in seminars. Please do not upload in the PDF format!
                                                                           A poster presentation of
your diploma work presented on 7 MAY 2018                                           + attendance
(only 2 lessons can be missed)

EXAM:
                                                           The written part has the following
subtests: listening, reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary. The pass mark of 65% is required to
proceed to the spoken part.                             The spoken part is conducted in pairs and
consists of two subparts: i) a monologue of about 3 minutes (your diploma work, your professional
goals), ii) a dialogue where a topic of this and previous semester is discussed. In the second part
of the spoken part collaboration and interaction are essential for successful performance.