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Practical Language Towards C1 Level - OPBA4A041B
Title: Praktický jazyk k úrovni C1
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2022
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 / 28 (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
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: PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D.
Pre-requisite : OPBA4A033A
Annotation -
Last update: PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D. (25.01.2024)
The aim of the course is the development of language skills equivalent to C1 (CEFR). The course aims at the following areas: the improvement of language accuracy, fluency and the overall complexity of students’ spoken and written discourse; the systematic enrichment of vocabulary, including collocations, idioms, phasal verbs and abstract concepts. The students are encouraged to perceive the language system as a whole and to acquire the use of less frequent phenomena. Topics for discussion and vocabulary development (including collocations, idioms and word-formation processes): 1. People and places 2. Environment 3. Laguage and culture 4. Safety and danger Grammar topics: 1. Tense and aspect (expressing past time) 2. Expressing future time 3. Higlighting and emphasis (cleft sentences, inversion, intonation). 4. Past modals (possibility, speculation, obligation and necessity)
Descriptors -
Last update: PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D. (23.01.2023)

Individual work with study materials:  20 hours 

Fulfilling the individual course assignments:  20 hours

Seminar paper: 15 hours

Test preparation: 15 hours

Literature - Czech
Last update: PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D. (23.01.2023)

AYTO, J. Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms. Oxford: OUP, 2010 (3rd edition). ISBN 978-0-19-431287-5.

FLOCKHART, J.; PELTERET, C. Phrasal Verbs: B1-C2. Glasgow: Collins, 2012. ISBN 978-0007464661.

GUDE, K.; DUCKWORTH, M.; ROGERS, L. Cambridge English Proficiency Masterclass. Oxford: OUP, 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-470524-0.

HEWINGS, M.; HAINES, S. Grammar and Vocabulary for Advanced. Cambridge: CUP, 2015. ISBN 978-1107481114.

McCARTHY, M.; O´DELL, F. English Vocabulary in Use Advanced with CD-ROM: Vocabulary Reference and Practice. Cambridge: CUP, 2013 (2nd edition). ISBN 978-1107637764

SIDE, R.; WELLMAN, G. Grammar and Vocabulary for Cambridge Advanced and Proficiency. Harlow: Longman, 2002.  ISBN 978-0-582-51821-6.

VINCE, M. Language Practice for Advanced: Macmillan: 2014.  ISBN 1 405 00762 1.

 

 

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D. (22.02.2023)

1. active participation in seminars

2. completion of all assigned tasks (home preparation, self-study)

3. written test

- the test comprises two parts

a. reading and listening

b. the vocabulary and grammar discussed in the seminars

- there is one re-sit

- in order to pass the test, the students have to achieve the minimum of 70% in both parts (a, b above) 

- the completion of the essay is a pre-requisite for taking the written test

Syllabus -
Last update: PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D. (23.01.2023)

The syllabus is based on the selected chapters from the student’s book Cambridge English Proficiency Masterclass (Gude et al. 2012) and covers the following units:

WEEK 1 -3

Unit 1 People and places

WEEK 4-6

Unit 2 Environment 

WEEK 7 - 9

Unit 3 Language and culture 

WEEK 10-12

Unit 5 Safety and danger

Course completion requirements -
Last update: PhDr. Zuzana Nádraská, Ph.D. (23.01.2023)

1. a mid-term essay (the deadline and other information regarding the essay will be announced at the beginning of the course)

2. there is one re-sit

3. the completion of the essay is a pre-requisite for taking the written test

 
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