Subject: Practical English 3 (CAJ3)
Aims of the subject: to improve
students' language skills – speaking, listening, reading, vocabulary and grammar.
Prerequisites: Students
should be interested in English.
Acquired knowledge: Students
will improve all their skills and widen their vocabulary.
Attendance: Students cannot miss more than
two sessions. If they do, they are required to do some additional work, which
will be specified by the teacher.
Requirements: Students
actively participate at lessons and do homework.
Exam: None
Final evaluation: Students sit
for three tests – listening, reading, vocabulary + grammar. In all of them they
have to score at least 50 % of the total number of points.
Syllabus:
1.
Unit 1
Introduction to the course; grammar –
revision (avoiding repetition, synonyms, reduced infinitives)
Hw: Get materials from the Centre of
Services (every week there will be a text or some exercises to be copied and
done – hw revision may also involve listening to a video recording with
questions and a follow-up discussion)
2.
Unit 2
Hw revision
grammar – revision (tense review)
Hw:
Get materials from the Centre of
Services
3.
Unit 3
Hw revision
grammar – revision (adverbs)
Hw:
Get materials from the Centre of
Services
4.
Unit 4
Hw revision
grammar – revision (discourse markers)
Hw: Get materials from the Centre of Services
5.
Unit 5
Hw revision
grammar – revision (adding emphasis,
inversions)
Hw:
Get materials from the Centre of
Services
6.
Unit 6
Hw revision
Test – reading
grammar – revision (distancing the facts,
passive constructions)
Hw: Get materials from the Centre of Services
7.
Unit 7
Hw revision
reading + listening (Letter to a newborn
son) + discussion; grammar (modal auxiliary
verbs)
Hw:
Get materials from the Centre of
Services
8.
Unit 7
Hw revision
listening (Words of wisdom)
Hw: Get materials from the Centre of Services
9.
Unit 8
Hw revision
Test - listening
reading (Walt Disney) + discussion; grammar (real and unreal tense usage)
Hw: Get materials from the Centre of Services
10.
Unit 8
Hw revision
Listening (An interview with an American Painter
Joe Downing)
Metaphors and idioms
Hw: Get materials from the Centre of Services
11.
Revision
Hw revision
Revision of chosen problems
Hw: Get materials from the Centre of Services
12.
Test
Hw revision
Test: grammar and vocabulary
13.
Credit
Compulsory reading:
Soars, Liz and John 2003. New Headway Advanced, OUP.
Student’s Book, Workbook
Further reading:
Travel books in English – the
list on H:\UKAZKY\Kacetl\CAJ
National Geographic – the
original English edition of the monthly magazine
TIME – the weekly magazine