Course detail
English for Life
FP-IapePAcad. year: 2022/2023
The course is focused on the development of the students' verbal and written communication skills and their further professional application within the wider framework of both Czech and European job markets. The central elements of the course consist in practising communication in the European cultural, business and legal environment and activities designed to describe and question European cultures in comparison with the Czech Republic (taking the Euro-American cultural context into account). The course provides the overview of the European Union institutions and their functions and presents the English language as the universal tool providing access to education and jobs to the Czech and Moravian university graduates. The coursework is based on the interpretation of written and audio-visual sources, discussion and personal opinion presentation.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
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Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
75% attendance and active participation at classes, test
Exam
Completion of the course for students with individual study plan
Credit: test
Exam
Completion of the course in distance form (applied only when objective external circumstances do not allow the implementation of the study programme in accordance with the granted accreditation)
Credit: test
Specific tasks may be required during semester
Exam
Course curriculum
Professional communication, business
Science and technology
Jobs
Law, crime, justice, legal proceedings
Cultural differences, intercultural communication
Schools and education
Health problems, health care
Euro-American culture
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
McCarthy,M. and O´Dell, F. (2009) Academic Vocabulary in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Sweeney, S. (2003) English for Business Communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Wellman, Guy. The Heinemann English Wordbuilder. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1991. (EN)
Classification of course in study plans