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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Practical Language I - OEBAA1737Z
Title: Practical Language I
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: not taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Explanation: Rok1
Old code: JAC
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: Mgr. Barbora Müller Dočkalová
Classification: Teaching > English
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Annotation -
The students develop their communicative competence, specifically through improving accuracy and fluency in speaking, expanding vocabulary (e.g. phrasal verbs and idiomatic expressions), practicing grammar, pronunciation, writing, reading and listening.
Last update: Esserová Kateřina, DiS. (11.11.2019)
Course completion requirements -

1. Attendance: no more than two missed classes

2. Active participation, completing all assignments

3. A written grammar and vocabulary test

4. Prepared talk: Students draw one of nine topics (known in advance, all based on topics discussed in seminars), minimum lenght is 3 minutes. The performance is assessed in the area of accuracy (max. 5 points), fluency (max. 5 points), vocabulary (max. 5 points), and pronunciation (max. 5 points). The total number of points necessary to pass is 15.

5. A written assignment. The topic will be specified in class.

Last update: Esserová Kateřina, DiS. (11.11.2019)
Literature -

Obligatory:
INSIGHT Intermediate.Oxford University Press, 2013

Recommended:
Macmillan English Dictionary For Advanced Learners, Macmillan Publishers, 2002
Longman Language Activator. The World´s First Production Dictionary. Longman, 1993
Swan, M. Practical English Usage. OUP. 1991

Last update: Esserová Kateřina, DiS. (11.11.2019)
Syllabus

1. Unit 1 Ideal Beauty: the way we are

2. Unit 1 Appearance and survival: present simple and continuous. Mimicry.

3. Unit 1 First Impressions: descriptive adjectives.

4. Unit 1 - Review of U1.

5 Unit 2 - Travellers tales, A road less travelled. Sustainable Tourism.

6 Unit 2 -Atlantic challenge, listening, revision of past tenses

7 Unit 2 - The Mother Road

8 Unit 2 - writing a story

9 Unit 2- House Swapping. Review of U2

10 Unit 3 - Feeling good: is chocolate the answer?

11 Unit 3 - Healthy bodies, healthy minds. Past simple and present perfect.

Last update: Esserová Kateřina, DiS. (11.11.2019)
 
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