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Course, academic year 2024/2025
  
English for PhD Students I - CZV834004
Title: English for PhD Students I
Guaranteed by: Department of Languages (834)
Faculty: Central University Departments of UCT Prague
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:0
E-Credits: winter s.:0
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/0, other [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course is intended for doctoral students only
Guarantor: Novotná Jana PhDr.
Annotation -
This course is designed for students at good intermediate/upper intermediate level. It is focused mainly on the key vocabulary used in the academic world but also includes general English reading, listening and speaking tasks.
Last update: Krátká Jana (20.03.2024)
Literature -

Academic Vocabulary in Use, Michael McCarthy, Felicity O´Dell, Cambridge University Press 2008

Recycling Advanced English, Clare West, Georgian Press 2005

Last update: Krátká Jana (20.03.2024)
Teaching methods -

Seminars.

Last update: Krátká Jana (20.03.2024)
Syllabus

I. Academic vocabulary

Working with academic vocabulary (key nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, phrasal verbs in academic English, words with several meanings)

Word combinations (typical nouns, verbs and adjectives and the words they combine with, fixed expressions)

Talking about sources, facts, evidence, data, statistics , graphs and diagrams.

II. General English

Grammar review (tenses; expressing ability, possibility and obligation; modifying comparison, gerund and infinitive)

Ad hoc speaking, reading and listening activities

Last update: Krátká Jana (20.03.2024)
Learning resources -

Materials prepared and/or recommended by the teacher.

Last update: Krátká Jana (20.03.2024)
Learning outcomes -

Students will be able to:

Last update: Krátká Jana (20.03.2024)
 
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