Czech

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Spoken production: giving presentations on a range of subjects related to the students' field of study, oral presentations on students' own qualifications and experience. Verbalising numerical expressions. Describing graphs, charts and trends.
Spoken interaction: indicating non-comprehension, interpretation check, agreeing and disagreeing, explaining a viewpoint on a topical issue related to students' field of study, developing an argument supporting his/her point of view, participation in the discussion. Being interviewed.
Listening: understanding conversations between speakers, taking notes on the basis of a heard text, following a talk within students' field as a member of live audience. Listening for gist and listening for specific information.
Writing activities: writing an abstract and summary, a letter of job application, curriculum vitae and e-mail messages.
Reading comprehension: work with adapted technical texts oriented to electrical engineering and information technology is mainly connected with writing and abstract and a summary.
Grammatical competence: revising grammatical categories and processes widely used in scientific/technical writing (passive voice, nominalisation, complex sentences); matter-of-factness in the scientific prose style.

Knowledge of the intermediate level of English is required.

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Communicative methods of teaching.

Course-unit credit and final exam.
A course-unit credit has a form of a written semester test assessed by max. 40 marks. To be able to pass an exam, a student has to obtain 50% at least, i.e. 20 marks.
A final exam consists of an oral part assessed by max. 20 marks, a written part of a final exam assessed by max. 20 marks and listening comprehension assessed by max. 20 marks. A student has to obtain 50% at least out of each exam part in order to pass successfully a final exam.

1. Oral presentations: key words and phrases for introduction, main parts and conclusion.
2. Oral presentations: content, language, body language, visual aids, question time. Teaching/learning vocabulary.
3. Seminar skills: indicating non-comprehension, interpretation check, agreeing and disagreeing, explaining a viewpoint on a topical issue related to students' field of study, developing an argument supporting his/her point of view.
4. Verbalising numerical expressions (fractions, decimals, percentages, formulae and equations). Giving students' individual presentations.
5. Describing graphs, charts and trends. Listening for gist.
6. Making notes for future reference. Revising grammatical categories and processes widely used in scientific/technical writing (passive voice, nominalisation, complex sentences); matter-of-factness in the scientific prose style.
7. Reading comprehension of adapted semi-technical texts oriented to electrical engineering and information technology. Writing a summary.
8. Writing an abstract. Basic information on translation activities and on recurrent language errors.
9. Formal and informal correspondence. Writing a letter of job application.
10. Writing professional curriculum vitae. Telephoning.
11. Being interviewed. Listening for specific information.
12. E-mail English. Increasing cultural awareness on the basis of listening.
13. Semester test. Course evaluation questionnaire.

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Development of academic skills and knowledge oriented to the language of electrical engineering and computer technologies

The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.

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Neuwirthová, L.: Study Materials for Academic Language Skills of Electrical Engineering and Communication Course (XAJD)

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