Grammar Seminar - OIBA4A045B

• Title: Grammar Seminar
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 0 [hours]
• 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
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Markéta Malá, Ph.D.

Annotation

English

Last update: PhDr. Monika Kadrnožková, Ph.D. (25.10.2020)

The course focuses on difficult areas of English grammar and helps students to improve their advanced English grammar skills. The grammatical items concerned are: definiteness and countability of nouns, modal verbs and modality, tenses, reported speech, passive structures, non-finite verb forms, adverbial clauses of time, reason, purpose, result, condition, consession, relative clauses, complex condensation. The course also includes various low-frequency structures which are commonly tested on English proficiency exams. Themes: 1. Nouns: definiteness, countability 2. Modal verbs and modality 3. Verbs: tense, reported speech 4. Verbs: passive voice 5. Non-finite verb forms 6. Adverbial clauses of time, reason, purpose, result, condition, consession 7. Relative clauses, complex condensation

Literature

English

Last update: PhDr. Monika Kadrnožková, Ph.D. (25.10.2020)

GREENBAUM, S., QUIRK, R. A Student’s Grammar of the English language. Harlow: Longman, 1990. ISBN 0-582-05971-2.

HEWINGS, M. Advanced Grammar in Use. Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 0 521 53291 4

VINCE, M. Language Practice for Advanced. Macmillan, 2014. ISBN 978-0-230-46381-3

YULE, G. Oxford Practice Grammar. Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-457982-7