B_AJ_3 English Language 3

University of Finance and Administration
Winter 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Ivona Kuželíková
Subdepartment of Languages – Department of Social Sciences – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Ivana Plačková
Prerequisites
B_AJ_2 English Language 2
The requirement for the completion of this course is completion of the course B_AJ_2.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
Mastering professional language and its practical use is the main objective of the course with a special focus on lexical and fraseological units in professional English, deeper fixing of grammar structures, comprehension of spoken language, both direct and recorded, communication in business environment and improvement in written English.
The key topics are carrer paths, start-up companies and future development. The practical skills include invitations and offers, telephoning, meetings, writing emails etc.

The course objectives are valid for the part-time study programme as well.
Learning outcomes
After finishing the course successfully, students will be able:
- to use modal verbs
- to form and use past continuous
- to distinguish between past simple and continuous
- to form and use zero and first conditional
- to use vocabulary concerning marketing, 4Ps - product, price, place and promotion, sales and costs (Faculty of Economics) - to use vocabulary concerning criminal law (Faculty of Law and Public Administration)
Syllabus
  • Course content:
    International Express Pre-Intermediate: Units 8-10
    Business Vocabulary in Use - Intermediate: Units 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27
    Angličtina pro právníky

    Seminar´s content:

    1-2 IE-PI Unit 8: Doing the right thing - Modals and related words
    3-4 IE-PI Unit 8: Vocabulary - Career paths; Work skills - Meetings 2
    5-6 IE-PI Unit 8: Functions - Invitations and offers; Review
    7-8 BViU: Unit 21 - Marketing and market orientation, Unit 22 - Products and brands (Faculty of Economics), ApP: Criminal Law - Classification of Crimes (Faculty of Law and Public Administration)
    9-10 IE-PI Unit 9: Start-ups - Past Continuous, Past Simple
    11-12 IE-PI Unit 9: Vocabulary - Staying in and going out, Work skills - Emails
    13-14 IE-PI Unit 9: Functions: Making suggestions; Review
    15-16 BViU: Unit 23 - Price, Unit 24 - Place (Faculty of Economics), ApP: Criminal Law - Offenders (Faculty of Law and Public Administration)
    17-18 IE-PI Unit 10: What next? - Will, Zero and First Conditional
    19-20 IE-PI Unit 10: Vocabulary - Gerunds and infinitives, Future phrases, Work skills: Telephoning
    21-22 IE-PI Unit 10: Functions - Asking for information with indirect questions, Farewells; Review
    23-24 BViU: Unit 25 - Promotion, Unit 27 - Sales and costs (Faculty of Economics), ApP: Criminal Law - Crimes against Property, Criminal Law - Crimes against Person (Faculty of Law and Public Administration)
Literature
    required literature
  • HARDING, Keith a Rachel APPLEBY. International Express Pre-Intermediate Third Edition: Student's Book with Pocket Book and DVD-Rom. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 9780194597852.
  • MASCULL, Bill. Business Vocabulary in Use Intermediate SECOND EDITION, CUP, 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-74862-9
    recommended literature
  • English Grammar in Use, Third edition (with answers and CD-ROM), Raymond Murphy, CUP, ISBN 978 0 521 53762 9
  • MURPHY, Raymond. Essential Grammar in Use: a self-study reference and practice book for elementary students of English. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 319s. ISBN 978-0-521-67580-2
  • HANKOVÁ, Lucie, Angličtina pro právníky, Aleš Čeněk, 2013, ISBN 9788073804169
Teaching methods
Seminars in full-time study; compulsory seminar participation is 75%.
Assessment methods
1 OBLIGATORY PARTICIPATION IN LESSONS The extent of obligatory participation in lessons has been stipulated as follows: 75% applies in full-time study, 50% in part-time study programme.The subject is assessed based on the student's results in the Credit Test. The test testifies to the fulfilment of study obligations. 2 CREDIT TEST Reaching the result of minimum 60 points out of 100 points (maximum) is the precondition to gain the credit. The student is entitled to one regular attempt (sit) and further resits to pass the Credit Test with the lecturer assigned to him. Note: The students who will be convicted of fundamental violation of the Study and Examination Code while writing the Credit Test (namely the forbidden use of mobile phones, spy pen cameras etc.) will automatically get the assessment “fraud incident“ (i.e. failed). 3 INSUFFICIENT ATTENDANCE In case of insufficient attendance between 75-40%, the assessment “administrative - “ will be entered into the IS and the person concerned automatically loses one attempt to sit the test. The seminar attendance less than 40 % means that the student didn't meet the minimum required study obligations and the credit rating to the notepad in IS reads as follows: “absolutely insufficient attendance“ and the student will be entitled to one sit only. 4 STUDENTS WITH INDIVIDUAL STUDY PLAN The students with the approved Individual Study Plan (ISP) are obliged to get in touch with their lecturer in three weeks’ time since the beginning of the term at the very latest in order to agree alternative ways of fulfilling their study obligations due to optional attendance. In case the student verifiably neglects this obligation, the credit rating to the notepad in IS reads as follows "non-contact ISP" and the student will lose one sit to pass the test. The students who were given the status of ISP on the course of the running term are obliged to contact lecturer assigned to them in 14 days at the very latest.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin KS/semestr.
Teacher's information
In case of additional emergency measures with regard to the situation associated with the dissemination of COVID-19, or, as the case may be, due to other verifiable objective facts, the Department of Languages introduces the following rules for the completion of English language subjects (B_AJ_1, B_AJ_3, B_AJ_5, B_AJA_1, B_AJA_3, B_AJA_5, N_AJ_1 and N_AJ_3) in the winter semester of the Academic Year 2020-21. If it is not possible for the students or employees of The University of Finance and Administration to enter the university buildings or premises, an alternative fulfilment to written or electronic tests in the winter semester 2020 across all disciplines will be an oral examination of students' knowledge in the online environment (e.g. MS Teams, ZOOM, Skype, Whatsapp, etc.) in the length of about 10-15 minutes. The required knowledge and skills for each subject are specified in the Information System (IS) in the section of information on the course. The specific dates of the oral online exams will be agreed upon between teachers and the students of the full-time and part-time study programmes groups, and the oral test dates will be announced in the IS. For students of those part-time study programmes without lessons of English language in their study programmes, the dates of the oral online exam will be announced by the Department of Languages and students will register for a particular date in the Information System.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2012, Winter 2013, Winter 2014, Winter 2015, Winter 2016, Summer 2017, Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023.
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