AJ11606 Collocations B

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jarmila Fictumová (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Timetable
Wed 18:20–19:55 G21
Prerequisites
AJ09999 Qualifying Examination
Qualifying Examination basic computer skills
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 10 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
A topic-based course aimed at idiomatic vocabulary expansion, using skills acquired in Collocations A. The focus of this course is not translation but the study of new expressions and the company they keep. The aim is to teach the students to use various corpora to help them find answers to language queries. There are two coursebooks: Idioms in Use and Idioms Workbook.
Syllabus
  • Family, Home; IU 1-6; VO 1,2
  • Food, Shopping; IU 7-12; VO 3,4
  • Clothes, Work and Leisure; IU 13-18; VO 5,6
  • Comunication, Town and Village; IU 19-24; VO 7,8
  • Sightseeing, Travel; IU 25-30; VO 9,10
  • Farming, Climate; IU 31-36; VO 11,12
  • Nature, The Human Body; IU 37-42; VO 13,14
  • Health, Sport; IU 43-48; VO 15, 16
  • Media, Culture; IU 49-54; VO 17
  • Education, Modern Society; IU 55-60
Literature
  • MCCARTHY, Michael and Felicity O'DELL. English idioms in use. 5th print. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 190 s. ISBN 0521789575. info
  • Dictionary of selected collocations. Edited by Christian Douglas Kozłowska - Halina Dzierżanowska - Jimmie Hill - M. Hove: LTP - Language teaching publications, 1997, 288 s. ISBN 1-899396-55-1. info
  • Oxford collocations dictionary : for students of English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, xiii, 897. ISBN 0194312437. info
  • Macmillan english dictionary :for advanced learners. 1st ed. Oxford: Macmillan, 2002, xiv, 1692. ISBN 0-333-99093-5. info
  • Dictionary of idioms (Variant.) : Collins Cobuild dictionary of idioms. info
  • English-czech dictionary of idioms : Anglicko-český slovník idiomů. info
  • The Oxford dictionary of idioms. Edited by Jennifer Speake. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, 393 s. ISBN 0192801112. info
  • KROULÍK, Břetislav and Barbora KROULÍKOVÁ. English-czech dictionary of idioms. Vyd. 1. Praha: Svoboda-Libertas, 1993, 203 s. ISBN 8020502343. info
  • Dictionary of idioms. Edited by John Sinclair. 1. ed. London: HarperCollins, 1997, xvii, 493. ISBN 0-00-370946-9. info
Teaching methods
seminars in a computer room; weekly homework assignments and tests
Assessment methods
Weekly seminars, presentations. Grading will be broken down as follows:
Test I: 25%
Test II: 25%
Final assignment: 40%
Attendance: 10%
Total: 100%
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/view.php?id=751
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016.
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