VSFS:B_AJ_6 English Language 6 - Course Information

B_AJ_6 English Language 6

Extent and Intensity

0/2. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: SoZk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Ivona Kuželíková (seminar tutor)

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_5 English Language 5
The requirement for the completion of this course is completion of the course B_AJ_5.

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

• Law and Public Administration (programme VSFS, B-PRS) (2)
• Law and Business (programme VSFS, B-PRS) (2)
• Sociology (programme VSFS, B-SOC) (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 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 business ethics, time and time management, stress and stress management, leadership and management styles, business across culture.

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

Syllabus

• Course content:
  Selection of grammar (English Grammar in Use, 3rd Edition, Raymond Murphy)
  Business Vocabulary in Use Intermediate: Units 40-46 + Global issues
  
  1-2 Narrative tenses – Past simple x continuous: EGiU Units 5,6, BViU Unit 40: Wrongdoing and curruption
  3-4 Past Perfect: EGiU Units 15,16 BViU Unit 41: Business Ethics
  5-6 Countable and Uncountable nouns: EGiU Units 69,70, BViU Unit 42: Time and time management
  7-8 Countable nouns: EGiU Unit 71 BViU Unit 43: Stress and stress management
  9-10 Passive: EGiU Units 42,43,44 BViU Unit 44: Leadership and management styles
  11-12 Passive: EGiU Units 45,46
  13-14 Time Clauses: EGiU Unit 25 BViU Unit 45: Business across cultures 1
  15-16 Conditional Clauses: EGiU Units 38,39 BViU Unit 46: Business across cultures 2
  17-18 Modals: EGiU Units 26,27,28,29,30
  19-20 Modals: EGiU Units 31,32 Global issues (teacher´s materials)
  21-22 Revision of grammar and business vocabulary
  23-24 Final test

Literature

required literature
• Business Vocabulary in Use – Intermediate SECOND EDITION, Bill Mascull, 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

Teaching methods

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

Assessment methods

ASSESMENT
OBLIGATORY PARTICIPATION IN LESSONS
The extent of obligatory participation in lessons has been stipulated as follows: 75% applies to full-time students.
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).
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.

FINAL EXAMINATION
WRITTEN PART
Reaching the result of minimum 60 points out of 100 points (maximum) is the precondition to sit for the oral part. The student is entitled to one regular attempt and he/she can do two resits to pass the written part of the final examination.
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).
ORAL PART
Student draws one of the twenty oral topics and fulfils given commuinication tasks.The student is entitled to one regular attempt and he/she can do two resits to pass the oral part of the final examination.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

• Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2016, recent)
  
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