Syllabus and requirements – Grammar 3A


Teacher: Mgr. Kateřina Švejdíková

Consultation hours: Poříčí 31, 1^st floor (next to the Teaching practice dept.), e-mail me first
for the exact time (katerina.svejdikova@gmail.com)

Compulsory material:

VINCE, Michael. Macmillan English grammar in context :intermediate with key. 1st pub. Oxford:
Macmillan, 2008. 232 s. ISBN 9781405071437.

MURPHY, Raymond. English grammar in use: a self-study reference and practice book for intermediate
students of English : with answers. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. x, 379 s.
ISBN 0-521-53762-2.


Syllabus:

2/10 – self-evaluation, setting aims, revision of tenses

16/10 – passives, modals

30/10 – progress test 1, gerunds and infinitives

13/11 – articles, countable and uncountable nouns

27/11 – progress test 2, adjectives, adverbs, relative clauses

11/12 – prepositions, conjunctions, areas you need to discuss


Requirements:

-          attendance and active participation

-          homework

-          two progress tests (both pass marks – 70 %; if you don’t pass this pass mark, your pass
mark for the final test would be increased – e.g. you pass 69 % in average in both tests, so it
means you need to pass at least 71 % in the final test; on the other hand, if you score more than
90 % from the both tests, you don’t have to take the final test)

-          a teaching activity (will be explained in the first session)

-          final test