Course: Language - English 1

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Course title Language - English 1
Course code KCJ/A1S
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 1: SYSTEMS - describing a system, incident report, safety equipment, operating anual UNIT 2: PROCESSES - describing a process, future shapes, hollow shapes, solid shapes, diagram descripiton UNIT 3: EVENTS - sequence of events, mechanics UNIT 4: CAREERS - planing, job-seeking process, job interviews, CV, cover letters UNTI 5: SAFETY - giving instructions, manuals, incidents, prevention, control and warning systems, vocabularty for automotive and maintenance UNIT 6: PLANNING - cause and effect, process planning

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 initiate systematic strengthening of the specific vocabulary
Students will acquire the fully developed level of A2 - B1 as defined in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Prerequisites
Students entry level is such as to enable them to acquire the CEFR level required at the end of the semester.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student's performance analysis, Didactic test, Systematické pozorování studenta

- participation in seminars - a fully developed oral presentation - the successful completion of a test during the course of study
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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