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CESA-SEESAcad. year: 2022/2023
The course is intended to teach English for Specific Purposes. However, general English is also included.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
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Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Students will consolidate general vocabulary and grammar structures for the workplace at the intermediate level and extend them in the context of academic topics.
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Language instruction as an extension of basic professional curriculum.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
To pass this course it is necessary, apart from active participation in the class and individual home preparation, to pass the final test (at least 60%) and oral part. There is a possibility for the student to resit the test. Fill in quizzes and presentation, 60% pass mark.
Course curriculum
Topic 1: Introduction- study materials, learning strategies conserning foreign languages. studying at BUT
Topic 2: Science - laws of science (listening: making inferences, vocabulary: word forms, critical thinking: distinguishing between similar words, grammar: present perfect, present perfec continuos)
Topic 3: Education - road to success (listening for contrasting ideas, critical thinking: ranking options, grammar: coumpound and complex sentences)
Topic 4: Anthropology - accidental discoveries (listening for signal words and phrases, critical thinking: combining ideas, vocabulary: collocations, grammar: indirect speech)
Topic 5: Engineering - consequences of progress/technology (listening for couses and effects, critical thinking: making appraisals, vocabulary: idioms, grammar: conditionals)
Topic 6: Evaluation, testing
Work placements
Aims
The course will develop students' language skills they have acquired at secondary schools and in the course English Skills and extend them in the context of academic topics. Also dealt with is ESP. It is focused on practical, everyday communication for the international workplace. /"intermediate" level/
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Attendance at seminars is systematically checked by the teacher. Students are allowed to miss 2 seminars. As long as the number of missed seminars is higher, additional condition may be set up by the teacher in justified cases in order to meet the course credit requirements.
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
eLearning
Classification of course in study plans
Language exercise
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