Professional English Language II - N834009A
Title: Odborný anglický jazyk II
Guaranteed by: Department of Languages (834)
Faculty: Central University Departments of UCT Prague
Actual: from 2020
Semester: summer
Points: summer s.:2
E-Credits: summer s.:2
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Is provided by: N834009
For type:  
Additional information: http://předmět je vyučován pouze v zimním semestru
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Pokorná Markéta Mgr. Ing.
Is interchangeable with: N834009, B834002
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
Last update: TAJ834 (22.08.2012)
Type of course: ESP (English for Specific Purposes) course designed specifically for chemistry students as a follow-up to the English Language I course.
Aim of the course -
Last update: TAJ834 (03.09.2013)

Students will be able to :

  • select information given in written and spoken forms, react and present the information in written and spoken forms
  • describe a process, work with data using graphs, diagrams
  • prepare a presentation on a professional topic
  • work with professional texts, intepret texts and listening materials

Literature -
Last update: TAJ834 (03.09.2013)

R : Materials prepared by the Department of Languages (See the department´s web site).

A: Sowton C.,Hewings M.,Cambridge Academic English,Student´s Book, Cambridge University Press,2012, 9780521165204

A: Jacques C.,Technical English 4,Course Book,Pearson Education Limited,2011, 9781408229552

Learning resources -
Last update: TAJ834 (03.09.2013)

www.vscht.cz/kj/page/odkazy.html

Syllabus -
Last update: TAJ834 (03.09.2013)

1. Guide to Presentations

2. Food: Food additives, colourants, sweeteners; Grammar tenses

3. Food: Food preservation; Sequence of Tenses

4. Food: Genetically modified food; Reported speech

5. Food: Nanofood, nanotechnology; Countable and uncountable nouns, Quantifiers

6. Drugs: Health and diseases; If Clauses

7. Drugs: Medical compounds,infections; Confusing words

8. Drugs: Pharnaceutical industry,drugs;Plurals of nouns

9. Drugs: Drug addiction, New technologies;Word formation

10.Restoration, Materials:Properties and descriptions; Modal verbs

11.Restoration, Materials:Shapes and properties;Prefixes and suffixes

12.Restoration, Materials:Plastic materials;Word formation

13.Restoration, Materials:Working with materials, Technologies

14.General revision

Registration requirements -
Last update: Kruteková Jana Mgr. (07.04.2016)

No study prerequisites.

Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Obhajoba individuálního projektu 0.5 14
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 0.5 14
Účast na seminářích 1 28
2 / 2 56 / 56
Coursework assessment
Form Significance
Regular attendance 30
Defense of an individual project 20
Examination test 20
Continuous assessment of study performance and course -credit tests 15
Oral examination 15