Course detail

Conversation through Hot Current Issues

FIT-JA3Acad. year: 2024/2025

  • The conversation class opens opportunity to talk about social and scientific controversial issues occurring daily on TV and in newspapers, and makes students think more deeply about these matters.
  • The aim is to bridge the gap between the artificial classroom conversation and the natural, real-life discussion, and encourage students to talk about things which really matter to them on a personal, political and moral level.
  • Students are expected to give presentations providing basic information on the topic. They are intended to be used as springboards for the discussions.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Entry knowledge

The student signed up for the class is expected to be able:

  • To use general vocabulary from all common areas (family, home, food, jobs and career, health and sickness, travelling and transport, sports, hobbies),
  • to apply carefully grammar rules during conversation (grammar tenses, relative clauses, time clauses, conditionals, passive voice, modal verbs),
  • to speak clearly with certain error tolerance,
  • to understand very well classes taught in English
Recommended prerequisite: New Headway Intermediate 2

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

  • Semester tests ... 40 points. 
  • Final exam ... 60 points. 

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.

Aims

  • The aim of the English conversation class is to involve students effectively and in a stress-free way in discussions so they could feel more confident when engaged in more sophisticated debates.
  • We want students to practise a range of speaking skills such as negotiating, persuading, expressing and defending opinions, giving presentations, and also proper using stress and intonation.
  • Vocabulary including slang and idiomatic expressions will be constantly extended and revised.
  • The key aspect is to motivate students to create the content of the classes by themselves.

Active participation in classes along with passing a written exam will show that a student is able:

  • To communicate with greater confidence when engaged in more sophisticated debates,
  • to use wider vocabulary based on the topics discussed including slang, phrasal verbs and idioms, 
  • to apply smoothly and carefully all common grammar rules during conversation (grammar tenses, relative clauses, time clauses, conditionals, passive voice, modal verbs)
  • to use proper stress and intonation,
  • to give well-structured, attractive presentation
  • to negotiate, persuade, express and defend opinions.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading


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Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BIT Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
  • Programme BIT Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective

  • Programme MITAI Master's

    specialization NGRI , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
    specialization NADE , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
    specialization NISD , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
    specialization NMAT , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
    specialization NSEC , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
    specialization NISY up to 2020/21 , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
    specialization NNET , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
    specialization NMAL , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
    specialization NCPS , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
    specialization NHPC , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
    specialization NVER , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
    specialization NIDE , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
    specialization NISY , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
    specialization NEMB , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
    specialization NSPE , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
    specialization NEMB , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
    specialization NBIO , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
    specialization NSEN , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
    specialization NVIZ , 0 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Language exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

  • FINANCE: Shaking the Magic Money Trees.
  • CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND (FAKE) NEWS: Secrets and Lies.
  • FUTURE: Next Giant Leaps.
  • LAW: The Code of Silence.
  • GENDER ISSUES: Can We Go Gender Free?
  • IMMIGRATION AND  RACISM: We All Bleed the Same Colour
  • SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Mastering a Servant
  • RELIGION: Who Controls the Clicker?
  • NOVEL VIEWPOINTS:  Forget the Box. Think.
  • MARKETING: Hacking the Unconscious.

 

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