B_AJ_4 English Language 4

University of Finance and Administration
Summer 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Slavěna Brownová (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Pavla Duplinská (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Marcel Ďurica (seminar tutor)
PhDr. Ladislava Knihová, Ph.D., MBA (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Vanda Kopalová (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Ivona Kuželíková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Dana Langášková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Denisa Mari (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Martina Pagáčová (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Martina Pospíšilová (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Zuzana Šimonová (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Alena Vacková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Markéta Vaváková (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Denisa Mari
Subdepartment of Languages – Department of Social Sciences – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Ivana Plačková
Timetable of Seminar Groups
B_AJ_4/uA1KL: Tue 24. 2. 17:30–19:00 K205, 19:15–20:45 K205, Tue 24. 3. 14:00–15:30 K205, 15:45–17:15 K205, Tue 14. 4. 14:00–15:30 K203, 15:45–17:15 K203, L. Knihová
B_AJ_4/vA1MO: Fri 6. 2. 15:30–17:00 M23, Fri 20. 3. 15:30–17:00 M23, 17:15–18:45 M23, Fri 3. 4. 12:00–13:30 M23, 13:45–15:15 M23, Fri 17. 4. 12:00–13:30 M23, Z. Šimonová
B_AJ_4/vA1PH: Fri 27. 2. 12:00–13:30 E125, 13:45–15:15 E125, Sat 14. 3. 8:00–9:30 E123, 9:45–11:15 E123, Fri 10. 4. 12:00–13:30 E124, 13:45–15:15 E124, M. Pagáčová
B_AJ_4/1APH: Mon 12:15–12:59 E304, Mon 13:00–13:45 E304, M. Vaváková
B_AJ_4/1BPH: Mon 8:45–9:29 E027, Mon 9:30–10:15 E027, I. Kuželíková
B_AJ_4/1PPPH: Tue 8:45–9:29 E024, Tue 9:30–10:15 E024, D. Langášková
B_AJ_4/1PVVPH: Wed 15:45–16:29 E305, Wed 16:30–17:15 E305, M. Ďurica
B_AJ_4/1RMO: Thu 10:30–11:14 M23, Thu 11:15–12:00 M23, Z. Šimonová
B_AJ_4/1RPH: Mon 12:15–12:59 E227, Mon 13:00–13:45 E227, V. Kopalová
B_AJ_4/1VMO: Mon 12:15–12:59 M23, Mon 13:00–13:45 M23, Z. Šimonová
B_AJ_4/2BSPPH: Mon 8:45–9:29 E305, Mon 9:30–10:15 E305, S. Brownová
B_AJ_4/2RPH: Mon 12:15–12:59 E129, Mon 13:00–13:45 E129, M. Pospíšilová
B_AJ_4/4RPH: Wed 10:30–11:14 E304, Wed 11:15–12:00 E304, D. Mari
B_AJ_4/5RPH: Tue 8:45–9:29 E225, Tue 9:30–10:15 E225, M. Pospíšilová
B_AJ_4/6RPH: Tue 8:45–9:29 E304, Tue 9:30–10:15 E304, M. Ďurica
Prerequisites
B_AJ_3 English Language 3
The requirement for the completion of this course is completion of the course B_AJ_3.
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 possible threats to our planet, the ageing future, city description, sales and cost, assets, liabilities and balance sheet, the bottom line.

The course objectives are valid for the part-time study programme as well.
Syllabus
  • Course content:
    International Express Pre-Intermediate: Units 10–12
    Business Vocabulary in Use Intermediate: Units 26-31

    Seminar´s content:

    1-2 IE-PI Unit 10: Will our planet survive? BViU Unit 26: E-commerce
    3-4 IE-PI Unit 10: Grammar: Future will + infinitive, 1st Conditional, if and when, prepositions of place
    5-6 IE-PI Unit 10: Living longer, growing younger, Asking for information, BViU Unit 27: Sales and Costs
    7-8 IE-PI Unit 11: Getting around in cities, Grammar: 2nd Conditional
    9-10 IE-Pi Unit 11: City description file, BViU Unit 28: Profitability and unprofitability
    11-12 IE-PI Unit 11: The best city to live in, listening, speaking
    13-14 IE-Pi Unit 11. Social responses, BViU Unit 29: Getting paid
    15-16 IE_PI Unit 12: The story of cork, Grammar: Passives
    17-18 IE-PI Unit 12: Word building, BViU Unit 30: Assets, liabilities and the balance sheet
    19-20 IE-PI Unit 12: Strange but true, Saying goodbye, BViU Unit 31: Share capital and debt
    21-22 Revision of grammar and business vocabulary
    23-24 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, Bill Mascull, CUP 2010, ISBN 0-521-77529-9
    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.
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
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2013, Summer 2014, Summer 2016, Winter 2016, Summer 2017, Winter 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024, Summer 2025.
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