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Course, academic year 2023/2024
  
English for Engineers I - N834062
Title: Angličtina pro inženýry I
Guaranteed by: Department of Languages (834)
Faculty: Central University Departments of UCT Prague
Actual: from 2019
Semester: both
Points: 1
E-Credits: 1
Examination process:
Hours per week, examination: 0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
For type: Master's
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: Novotná Jana PhDr.
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
The aim of this course is to enhance students’ communication skills with special focus on presentations and communication in business environment. In addition, to review and deepen the knowledge of grammar specific to professional English. The level is B2/B2+ according to CERF (Common European Reference Framework).
Last update: Novotná Jana (29.08.2016)
Aim of the course -

Students will be able to:

• deliver effective presentations

• use appropriate grammar, vocabulary and register when communicating in international working environment

Last update: Novotná Jana (29.08.2016)
Literature -

R: Williams E.J., Presentations in English, Macmillan, 2008, 9780230028760

A: Powell M., Presenting in English, Cengage Learning, 2011, 9781111832278

A: Speakout Advanced Students´Book, Pearson, 2012, 9781408267493

Last update: Novotná Jana (29.08.2016)
Learning resources -

Materials prepared and/or recommended by the teacher.

Last update: Novotná Jana (29.08.2016)
Syllabus -

1. Introduction

2. Presentations – the start, the finish (theory, phrases, grammar)

3. Presentations – structuring, jump start (theory, phrases, grammar)

4. Presentations – finish with a bang. Verbal garbage. Pronunciation.

5. Numbers and trends. Visual aids – slides, procedure.

6. Change and development – vocabulary. Prepositions.

7. Verb tenses – the continuous aspect.

8. Verb tenses - the perfect aspect. Students’ presentations.

9. Future forms. Students’ presentations.

10. Review of tenses. Students’ presentations.

11. The passive. False facts and myths. Students’ presentations.

12. Language focus – passives. Students’ presentations.

13. Passive structures with reporting verbs and infinitive, causative structures. Students’ presentations.

14. Revision and end-of-term test.

Last update: Novotná Jana (02.02.2017)
Registration requirements -

No study pre-requisites are required.

Last update: Novotná Jana (29.08.2016)
 
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