Course: Foreign Language - English 2

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Course title Foreign Language - English 2
Course code KCJ/A2S
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Hastrdlová Šárka, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
UNIT 7: REPORTS - reporting incidents and progress, a report writing, electrical vocabulary UNIT 8: PROJECTS - dscribing a method, purpose and stages, vocabualry for constructions and civil engineering UNIT 9: DESIGN - describing appearance, technical drawings, vocabulary for technical and architectural drawings UNIT 10: DISASTERS - speculating about causes, investigation interview and report, structural engineering UNIT 11: MATERIALS - material properties (specification and description), writing a proposal, discussing and suggesting UNIT 12: OPPORTUNITIES - predicting, decision-making, comparing and contrasting, graphs and charts, vocabulary for aerodynamics

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogue metods(conversation,discussion,brainstorming), Self-study (text study, reading, problematic tasks, practical tasks, experiments, research, written assignments)
  • Class attendance - 28 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
- to develop and strengthen lexical and phraseological units of the general language - to develop basic language competence, mainly listening and text comprehension - to develop different forms of the spoken performance - discussions, presentations - to continue with systematic strengthening of the specific vocabulary
Students will acquire the threshold level of B1 - B2 as defined in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Prerequisites
The student obtained the required language skills from the previous semester according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
KCJ/A1S

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Written exam, Essay

participation in seminars - the successful completion of a test during the course of study - a fully developed oral presentation - the successful completion of a written and oral exam
Recommended literature
  • BONAMY, David. Technical english. 2nd impression. Harlow, Essex: Pearson Longman, 2008. ISBN 9781405845540.
  • BONAMY, David. Technical English 3. 3th impression. Harlow, Essex: Pearson Longman, 2013. ISBN 9781408229477.


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