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Course, academic year 2025/2026
  
   
Academic English I - V834054
Title: Academic English I
Podoba výuky: practicals
Guaranteed by: Department of Languages (834)
Faculty: Central University Departments of UCT Prague
Actual: from 2024 to 2025
Kolik má semestrů: 1
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:1
E-Credits: winter s.:1
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / 14 (unknown)
Maximální kapacita předmětu: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Enroll for the course repeatedly: - / - / - / 9
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Tomeš Martin Mgr.
Annotation -
The aim of this course is to enhance students’ language skills with a special focus on academic English. In addition, the course attempts to review and deepen the knowledge of grammar specific to professional English. The target level is C1, C1/C2 according to CERF (Common European Reference Framework).
Last update: Tomeš Martin (28.06.2024)
Course completion requirements -

Credit test - 70%

Attendance - 70%

Last update: Tomeš Martin (28.06.2024)
Literature -

Obligatory:

  • O'Dell, Felicity, and Michael McCarthy . Academic Vocabulary in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge, 2016, s. ISBN 978-1-107-59166-0.

Recommended:

  • Jaques, Christopher. Technical English.. Harlow: Pearson, 2011, 80 s. s. ISBN 978-1-4082-6800-1.

Last update: Tomeš Martin (18.06.2026)
Teaching methods -

Lessons in the form of seminars.

Last update: Tomeš Martin (28.06.2024)
Syllabus -

1. What is special about academic English?; SVOMPT

2. English inorganic chemistry nomenclature

3. Key nouns in academic English

4. Articles; Irregular plural

5. Key quantifying expressions in academic English; Countable and uncountable nouns

6. Key verbs in academic English; Verb patterns

7. Subject-verb agreement; English tenses

8. Modality in academic English

9. Passive voice structures in academic English

10.Key adjectives and adverbs in academic English; Comparison and contrast

11.Time; Prepositional phrases in academic English

12.Graphs and diagrams

13.Presentation rules, grammar and language

14.Credit test

Last update: Tomeš Martin (28.06.2024)
Learning resources -

Materials prepared and/or recommended by the teacher and recommended literature.

Last update: Tomeš Martin (28.06.2024)
Learning outcomes -

Students will be able to use key vocabulary and grammar structures characteristic of academic English.

Last update: Tomeš Martin (28.06.2024)
Registration requirements -

No study prerequisites are required.

Last update: Tomeš Martin (28.06.2024)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Účast na seminářích 1 28
1 / 1 28 / 28
 
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