PdF:AJ2RC_SYNB Syntax B - Course Information
AJ2RC_SYNB Syntax B
Faculty of EducationSpring 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/24. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Martin Adam, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Olga Dontcheva-Navrátilová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- AJ2RC_SYNB/OS01: Fri 20. 2. 11:10–12:50 učebna 59, Fri 6. 3. 11:10–12:50 učebna 59, Fri 20. 3. 11:10–12:50 učebna 59, Fri 3. 4. 11:10–12:50 učebna 59, Fri 17. 4. 11:10–12:50 učebna 59, Fri 15. 5. 11:10–12:50 učebna 59, M. Adam
- Prerequisites
- Completion of Syntax A Course.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Studies to Extend Teaching Qualification for Lower Seconday Schools (programme PdF, C-CV, specialization Anglický jazyk a literatura pro základní školy)
- Course objectives
- The course covers the area of syntactic characteristics of the English sentence, focusing on the compound sentence (coordination) and the complex sentence (subordination). Having completed the course, the students should be thoroughly - acquainted with the areas of complementation of verbs and adjectives (infinitive vs. -ing forms) - familiar with the topics of clauses of result and cause, purpose, concession, time and relative clauses. - and able to create authentic and standard English sentences. Throughout the semester students are encouraged to link theory in the classroom to practice at schools via practical tasks.
- Syllabus
- 1 Chapter 13 Coordination, Chapter 10 B The ing form as gerund
- 2 Chapter 13 cont., Chapter 10 C Verbs taking the infinitive or ing
- 3 Chapter 16 Complementation of verbs and adjectives, Chapter 10 D Verbs taking a full infinitive or ing
- 4 Chapter 16 cont., Chapter 3 A Relation between result and cause
- 5 Chapter 3 B Result expressed by too or enough)
- 6 REVISION TRANSLATION, Chapter 14 The complex sentence, Chapter 4 A Purpose (standard constructions)
- 7 Chapter 14 cont., Chapter 4 B Purpose (shortened constructions), Chapter 6 cause, purpose, concession, alternatives.
- 8 REVISION MID-TERM TEST, Chapter 15 Syntactic and semantic functions of subordinate clauses, Chapter 5 Concession
- 10 Chapter 15 cont., Chapter 7 Time.
- 13 Chapter 8 A Relatives. Introduction. Chapter 8 B Sentence building with relatives.
- 14 Chapter 8 C Shortened constructions. Chapter 9 Similarity and comparison.
- Literature
- required literature
- GETHIN, Hugh. Grammar in context :proficiency level English. New edition. Harlow: Longman, 1996, 235 s. ISBN 0-17-556420-5. info
- CHALKER, Sylvia. A student's English grammar : workbook. First published. Harlow: Longman, 1992, 186 stran. ISBN 0582088194. info
- GREENBAUM, Sidney and Randolph QUIRK. A student's grammar of the English language. First published. Harlow: Longman, 1990, 490 stran. ISBN 0582059712. info
- Teaching methods
- Teaching methods: classroom discussions, lectures, students' presentations, home assignments, home projects, observations.
- Assessment methods
- 2-period seminar Course evaluation: - attendance (more than two unexcused absences will not be tolerated) + homework - the final mark will be based on the overall average counted out of the autumn term results and all the three tests written in the Spring semester (mid-term test + translation + written credit test) + oral exam
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually. - Teacher's information
- http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=982
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2015, recent)
- Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/ped/spring2015/AJ2RC_SYNB