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Spoken production
The final exam verifies that a course graduate:
- Can give clearly developed presentations on subjects related to his/her professional field, can develop particular points and conclude appropriately.
- Can present his/her qualifications and experience.
- Can react on questions raised by members of the audience.
- Can actively participate in discussions.
- Can verbalise numerical expressions and describe graphs, charts and trends.

Listening
The final exam verifies that a course graduate:
- Can understand lectures, talks and reports in his/her field of academic interest even when they are linguistically complex; can follow conversations between speakers.
- Uses listening strategies for gist and specific information.

Writing
The final exam verifies that a course graduate:
- Can write a text in an appropriate style.

Reading
The final exam verifies that a course graduate:
- Can understand long semi-technical texts oriented to electrical engineering and information technology and can summarise them orally.
- Can extract information, ideas and opinions from specialized texts from his/her own field.
- Can understand long instructions, for example for the use of a new piece of equipment, provided he has enough time to reread them.
- Can read any correspondence with occasional use of a dictionary.

Grammatical and stylistic competence
The final exam verifies that a course graduate:
- Is able to distinguish various writing styles.
- Is aware of difficult words and expressions in scientific/technical writing.
- Is aware of grammatical and stylistic categories widely used for obtaining formality and matter-of-factness in the scientific prose style.

Before the electronic registration of the subject HPA5, a student has to pass successfully the exam of the subject Practical English 4 (subject code HPA4). This exam corresponds to the level C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. A student at this level:
- Can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognise implicit meaning.
- Can express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions.
- Can use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes.
- Can produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.

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The methodology of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is applied to the subject Practical English 5 (HPA5). This methodology is closely linked with communicative and learning-centred approaches, and it entails the adoption of four essential principles: authenticity, relevancy and appropriacy in language and materials, and tolerance of errors to the extent of communication adequacy. Next to improving the communication skills and specialist language knowledge, this methodology also includes development of autonomous learning and students' self-assessment.
The organizational forms of tuition include class, pair work, group work, or individual work with accessible on-line materials for this subject at home.
Activities used in ESP include discussion, problem-solving, case studies, oral presentations or role-play. Communicative tasks/exercises/techniques include information transfer, information gap, reformulation, questionnaire, cloze.
ESP methodology is supported by educational aid: on-line materials for the subject, original recordings, computer-based teaching and learning.

Semester test and exam.
A semester test has a written form and it includes three parts:
- a terminology multiple choice test,
- creating appropriate forms of given words that fit suitably in the blank spaces of the text,
- filling in missing words into a semi-technical text.
The semester is assessed by max. 40 marks. To be able to register for an exam, a student has to obtain 60% at least, i.e. 24 marks. The semester test can be repeated only once. Time for a semester test: 35 minutes.

An exam has a written form. It is assessed by max. 60 marks. It consists of two parts:
- reading comprehension assessed by max. 30 marks and
- listening comprehension assessed by max. 30 marks.
A student has to obtain 50% at least out of each exam part in order to pass successfully the exam. Time for reading comprehension: 30 minutes.

1. Oral presentations: key words and phrases for introduction, main parts and conclusion. Listening comprehension.
2. The level of formality vs. informality in the text. Scientific style and popular scientific style. Grammatical and stylistic categories used for obtaining objectivity and matter-of-factness in the scientific prose style. Reading comprehension of texts oriented to electrical engineering and information technology. Listening comprehension.
3. Making notes for future reference. Revising grammatical and stylistic categories and processes widely used in scientific/technical writing (passive voice, nominalisation, relative sentences, complex sentences, neutral and formal expressions etc.); matter-of-factness and objectivity in the scientific prose style. Students’ presentations. Reading comprehension of texts oriented to electrical engineering and information technology. Listening comprehension.
4. Language functions: emphasising; presenting an argument. Reading comprehension of texts oriented to electrical engineering and information technology. Students' presentations. The video Stuff of genius: Kevlar (Specifying and Describing Properties).
5. Language functions: describing a process. Reading comprehension of texts oriented to electrical engineering and information technology. Students' presentations. The video How Can We Build a Lift into Space? (Explaining How Technology Works).
6. Numbers. Articles in technical English. Reading comprehension of texts oriented to electrical engineering and information technology. Students' presentations. The video: Le Mans Disaster 1955 (Describing Types of a Technical Problem).
7. Describing trends, charts and graphs. Reading comprehension of texts oriented to electrical engineering and information technology. Students' presentations. The video: High Power Line Workers (Emphasising the Importance of Precautions).
8. Academic vocabulary: key nouns; key verbs; key adjectives; key adverbs. Reading comprehension of texts oriented to electrical engineering and information technology. Students' presentations. Listening comprehension.
9. Word formation. Difficult words. Reading comprehension of texts oriented to electrical engineering and information technology. Students' presentations. The video: How to Make a Water Rocket (Comparing Results with Expectations).
10. Employment: Writing a letter of job application. Writing academic curriculum vitae. Being interviewed. Reading comprehension of texts oriented to electrical engineering and information technology. Students' presentations. Listening comprehension.
11. E-mail English concentrated on knowledge of communication styles: formal and informal, direct and indirect, ways of seeming more friendly. Reading comprehension of texts oriented to electrical engineering and information technology. Students' presentations. Listening comprehension.
12. Reading comprehension of texts oriented to electrical engineering and information technology. Students' presentations. Video: How to choose the right energy saving bulb (Describing Specific Materials).
13. Semester test.

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Goals
Development of academic skills and knowledge oriented to the language of electrical engineering and computer technologies on the level C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Objectives:
- Understanding specific technical information in spoken and written forms.
- The ability to communicate in specific situations related to the development, production and presentation of devices and their parts and components. The ability to communicate in different situations according to the production process requirements.
- Ability to distinguish various writing styles: formal and informal styles, scientific style, popular scientific style.
- The knowledge of specific terminology.

The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.

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39 hours, compulsory