Course detail
English for Life
FP-IapePAcad. year: 2024/2025
The course is focused on the development of the students' verbal and written communication skills and their further professional application within the wider framework of both Czech and European job markets. The central elements of the course consist in practising communication in the European cultural, business and legal environment and activities designed to describe and question European cultures in comparison with the Czech Republic (taking the Euro-American cultural context into account). The course provides the overview of the European Union institutions and their functions and presents the English language as the universal tool providing access to education and jobs to the Czech and Moravian university graduates. The coursework is based on the interpretation of written and audio-visual sources, discussion and personal opinion presentation.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
75% attendance and active participation at classes, test
Exam
Completion of the course for students with individual study plan
Credit: test
Exam
Completion of the course in distance form (applied only when objective external circumstances do not allow the implementation of the study programme in accordance with the granted accreditation)
Credit: test
Specific tasks may be required during semester
Exam
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 ability to find one's way in the European (and world) cultural and professional environment. The ability to use English in a wide range of everyday situations. Improved ability to understand spoken English. The student is able to describe EU institutions and knows the basic facts about their functioning, understands the relationships of the Euro-American cultural context, is able to discuss economic and political problems, the questions of employment, jobs, science and technology, discusses the problems of the legal system and environment, compares cultural environment of different countries and understands cultural differences, is able to discuss the problems of education.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
McCarthy,M. and O´Dell, F. (2009) Academic Vocabulary in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Sweeney, S. (2003) English for Business Communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Wellman, Guy. The Heinemann English Wordbuilder. Praha: Státní pedagogické nakladatelství, 1991. (EN)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme MGR-IM Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective