Module name Module description Time suggestion Eva Rudolfová Emotional Intelligence How to be intelligent around one´s emotions. For dummies as well as emotional matadors! TBA, online Martina Šindelářová Skupeňová Listening for Language Learning After watching 10 seasons of Friends, listening to tons of music and making numerous international trips you still have difficulties to follow a lecture? Let us investigate your listening practices and make them more effective for language learning. Tuesdays 10:00 (November 3, 17, December 1), online Dita Hochmanová Communication Strategies in Videoconferencing Would you like to improve your communication skills online? These sessions focus on training communicative skills, like brainstorming, prioritizing, making suggestions, clarifying, negotiating, and persuading in the online environment. Wednesdays 14:30, (11, 18, and 25 November), online Joe Lennon Writing Lab The Writing Lab is available for students who would like structured feedback on writing projects of any kind. In this module, instead of meeting in a large group, you will book 3 individual or small-group appointments at the Writing Lab. You will bring a working draft of an essay, or article, or any other academic (or creative!) writing project to each appointment. An expert writing consultant (probably Joe) will read a section of your draft (or all of it, depending on how long it is), consult with you about your writing goal or purpose, and give you advice about how to achieve that goal. We are not proofreaders -- this is not an editing service! We are not going to simply correct your grammar mistakes for you. Instead, we will show you how to revise and rethink your work, how to get rid of writer's block, how to research and find resources more efficiently, and how to imagine your writing project in a new way. SUITABLE FOR: SELF-STUDY / ALL EXPERIENCE LEVELS Joe will contact students who sign up for this module - you'll make individual appointments. Dana Straková & Šárka Roušavá What makes a good book? We may not answer this question but we'll certainly try. We will talk short stories, structure, tropes and our personal favourites. By the end, you will have a better understanding of what you like in fiction and will be able to share your literary turn-ons with others. Thursdays 18:00 (5 & 26 November, 10 December), on-line Marcela Sekanina Vavřinová Grammar A highly autonomous module that will give you support for individualized grammar practice aiming at your specific needs. TBA, online Martina Šindelářová Skupeňová + In and beyond a conversation This module offers a chance to meet regularly to practice your discussion skills. Each session will have a special topic (which you can suggest) and led by a different teacher. The first session will focus on this course and your questions about it. Wednesdays 18:00 (28.10. with MŠS) online Martina Šindelářová Skupeňová Intercultural Communication and Videoconferencing Having a Zoom meeting or online chat might be the only opportunity this semester to communicate with international students or your foreign friends. Online communication is always challenging and in these sessions, we are going to analyse and reflect what makes communicating across various culture special and how it can be handled well even virtually. Wednesdays 10:00 (November 4., 11., 18.) online