VSFS:B_AJA_4 English Language A 4 - Course Information

B_AJA_4 English Language A 4

Extent and Intensity

0/4. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Eva Arientová (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Pavla Duplinská (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Marcel Ďurica (seminar tutor)
PhDr. Ladislava Knihová, Ph.D., MBA (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Ivona Kuželíková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Dana Langášková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Martina Pagáčová (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Dagmar Sieglová, M.Ed., Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Zuzana Šimonová (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Alena Vacková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Markéta Vaváková (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

PhDr. Ladislava Knihová, Ph.D., MBA
Subdepartment of Languages – Department of Social Sciences – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Ivana Plačková

Timetable of Seminar Groups

B_AJA_4/uMKL: Tue 24. 2. 14:00–15:30 K205, 15:45–17:15 K205, Tue 3. 3. 14:00–15:30 K205, 15:45–17:15 K205, Tue 24. 3. 17:30–19:00 K205, 19:15–20:45 K205, L. Knihová
B_AJA_4/uM11PH: Tue 17. 2. 14:00–15:30 E125, 15:45–17:15 E125, Tue 3. 3. 14:00–15:30 E126, 15:45–17:15 E126, Tue 31. 3. 14:00–15:30 E125, 15:45–17:15 E125, P. Duplinská
B_AJA_4/vMMO: Fri 6. 2. 12:00–13:30 M23, 13:45–15:15 M23, Fri 20. 2. 12:00–13:30 M23, Fri 6. 3. 12:00–13:30 M23, Fri 20. 3. 12:00–13:30 M23, 13:45–15:15 M23, Z. Šimonová
B_AJA_4/vM21PH: Fri 6. 2. 13:45–15:15 E125, 15:30–17:00 E125, Fri 6. 3. 15:30–17:00 E123, 17:15–18:45 E123, Fri 20. 3. 13:45–15:15 E125, 15:30–17:00 E125, M. Vaváková
B_AJA_4/vM22PH: Fri 6. 2. 13:45–15:15 E126, 15:30–17:00 E126, Fri 6. 3. 15:30–17:00 E125, 17:15–18:45 E125, Fri 20. 3. 13:45–15:15 E126, 15:30–17:00 E126, M. Ďurica
B_AJA_4/1MMO: Mon 8:45–9:29 M23, Mon 9:30–10:15 M23, Tue 12:15–12:59 M23, Tue 13:00–13:45 M23, Z. Šimonová
B_AJA_4/1MPH: Thu 8:45–9:29 E123, Thu 9:30–10:15 E123, Thu 10:30–11:14 E123, Thu 11:15–12:00 E123, D. Sieglová
B_AJA_4/2MPH: Mon 8:45–9:29 E122, Mon 9:30–10:15 E122, Thu 10:30–11:14 E122, Thu 11:15–12:00 E122, A. Vacková
B_AJA_4/4MPH: Mon 12:15–12:59 E123, Mon 13:00–13:45 E123, Thu 14:00–14:44 E125, Thu 14:45–15:30 E125, I. Kuželíková
B_AJA_4/5MPH: Wed 8:45–9:29 E128, Wed 9:30–10:15 E128, Thu 10:30–11:14 E126, Thu 11:15–12:00 E126, D. Langášková
B_AJA_4/6MPH: Thu 8:45–9:29 E127, Thu 9:30–10:15 E127, Thu 10:30–11:14 E127, Thu 11:15–12:00 E127, M. Vaváková
B_AJA_4/7MPH: Mon 12:15–12:59 E024, Mon 13:00–13:45 E024, Thu 8:45–9:29 E126, Thu 9:30–10:15 E126, M. Pagáčová
B_AJA_4/8MPH: Mon 12:15–12:59 E122, Mon 13:00–13:45 E122, Thu 8:45–9:29 E122, Thu 9:30–10:15 E122, A. Vacková

Prerequisites

Successful completion of B_AJA_3

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Marketing Communication (programme VSFS, B-EKM) (2)

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 and technical 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 possible threats to our planet, the ageing future, city description, sales and cost, assets, liabilities and balance sheet, the bottom line. Technical English topics focus on research, new product development, and brainstorming.

The course objectives are valid for the part-time study programme as well.

Syllabus

• This sylabus is designed for the full-time study programme. The requirements for part-time study programme are in "study materials" in the IS.
  
  Course book:
  International Express Pre-Intermediate: Units 10–12
  Business Vocabulary in Use Intermediate: Units 26-31
  Professional English in Use - Marketing: Units 7-12
  
  Obsah cvičení:
  
  1-2 IE-PI IE-PI Unit 10: Will our planet survive? BViU-I Unit 26: E-commerce
  3-4 PEiU-M Unit 7: Legal aspects of marketing + exercises
  5-6 PEiU-M Unit 7: Vocabulary revision, Over to you, Students’ Project 1: Protection of intellectual property
  7-8 IE-PI IE-PI Unit 10: Grammar: Future will + infinitive, 1st Conditional, if and when, prepositions of place
  9-10 PEiU-M Unit 8: Research 1 + exercises
  11-12 PEiU-M Unit 8: Vocabulary revision, Over to you, Students’ Project 2: Primary and secondary research/focus group simulation
  13-14 IE-PI Unit 10: Living longer, growing younger, Asking for information, BViU-I Unit 27: Sales and Costs
  15-16 PEiU-M Unit 9: Research 2 + exercises
  17-18 PEiU-M Unit 3: Vocabulary revision, Over to you, Students’ Project 3: Graph description
  19-20 IE-PI Unit 11: Getting around in cities, Grammar: 2nd Conditional
  21-22 PEiU-M Unit 10: New product development 1 + exercises
  23-24 PEiU-M Unit 10: Vocabulary revision, Over to you, Students’ Project 4: Development of an innovative product/role of innovations/presentation of a new product to a group of business angels
  25-26 IE-PI Unit 11: City description file, BViU-I Unit 28: Profitability and unprofitability
  27-28 PEiU-M Unit 11: New product development 2 + exercises
  29-30 PEiU-M Unit 11: Vocabulary revision, Over to you, Students’ Project 5: Designing a microsite for a new/innovative product/students’ work presentations
  31-32 IE-PI Unit 11: The best city to live in, listening, speaking
  33-34 PEiU-M Unit 12: Brainstorming + exercises
  35-36 PEiU-M Unit 12: Vocabulary revision, Over to you, Students’ Project 6: Brainstorming session simulation
  37-38 IE-PI Unit 11. Social responses, BViU-I Unit 29: Getting paid
  39-40 IE-PI Unit 12: The story of cork, Grammar: Passives
  41-42 IE-PI Unit 12: Word building, BViU-I Unit 30: Assets, liabilities and the balance sheet
  43-44 IE-PI Unit 12: Strange but true, Saying goodbye, BViU Unit 31: Share capital and debt
  45-46 Revision of grammar and business and marketing vocabulary
  47-48 Final test

Literature

required literature
• International Express – Pre- Intermediate, Liz Taylor, OUP - Student’s Book Interactive edition , ISBN 0-19-457653-6 (with Pocket Book + MultiROM)
• Business Vocabulary in Use – Intermediate SECOND EDITION, Bill Mascull, CUP, 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-74862-9
• Professional English in Use - Marketing, Cate Farrall & Marianne Lindsley, CUP, 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-70269-0

recommended literature
• English Grammar in Use, Third edition (with answers and CD-ROM), Raymond Murphy, CUP, ISBN 978 0 521 53762 9

Teaching methods

Seminars in full-time study; compulsory seminar participation is 75%.

Assessment methods

The subject is assessed based on the student's results in the Credit Test. It testifies to the fulfilment of study obligations.

1 OBLIGATORY PARTICIPATION IN LESSONS
The extent of obligatory participation in lessons has been stipulated as follows: 75% applies to full-time students, and in the group instructor-led consultations in the part-time study programme it is stipulated at the level of 50%.
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 and he/she can do two 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 “---“ (i.e. failed).
3 INSUFFICIENT ATTENDANCE
In case of insufficient attendance between 75-40%, the assessment “-“ 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 he/she will be assessed as failed “---". In such a case the student will have to transfer the subject into the following term/academic year, and following the purchase of the necessary credits he/she will have again three attempts to pass the subject (to write the test).
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 at the very latest since the beginning of the term in order to agree alternative ways to fulfil their study obligations due to optional attendance. In case the student verifiably neglects this obligation, he/she will be assessed as failed and the code of “---“ will be entered into the IS. The students who were given the status of ISP on the course of the running term are obliged to contact their assigned lecturer in 14 days at the very latest.

Language of instruction

Czech

Follow-Up Courses

• B_AJ_5 English Language 5

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/semestr.

• Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2015, recent)
  
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