ENGLISH FOR EARTH SCIENCE

SOURCES

Some on-line courses of English are practical, but not cheap (http://www.study-english-online.com/). Fortunately there are free labs and you can practice your listening ability, grammar skills and reading comprehension by yourself. Face-to-face lessons should be devoted to speaking – discussions and presentations.Do not say you cannot speak because you had only a few lessons of English and your teachers were not good. It is almost totally up to you to gain your knowledge of English and there are many ways.
Grammar
Basic grammar tables of tenses, conditionals, time and wish clauses, including a system of irregular verbs (correction does not work in case you use a correct form of a wrong verb), all on just a few pages on http://verahranac.wz.cz/

Practice more on http://www.nonstopenglish.com/allexercises/

Sarah Peters, Tomáš Gráf: Cvičebnice anglické gramatiky, Polyglot 1998 - 8500 příkladů s řešením na protější straně

 
 
Listening
  • general and academic topics with tests on http://www.esl-lab.com/index.htm 
  • links to field topics from BBC Radio Earthworks and  videos from Physical Geology textbook in this syllabus
 

Textbooks

Plummer, Ch. - McGeary, D. - Carlson, D.: Physical Geology: Earth Revealed, The McGraw-Hill Companies 2001 University Textbook. On-line updated 8th Edition: http://www.mhhe.com/earthsci/geology/plummer/student_index.mhtml

Strahler, A.: Introducing Physical Geography, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003 www.wiley.com/college/strahler

Fariel, R. - Hinds, R. - Berey,D.: Earth Science, Addison-Wesley 1987 High school textbook - available in the faculty library and in lessons.This textbook is used in our face to face sessions and it is available both in Earth Science study room and library.

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