UCP:JAE20 English language II - Informace o předmětu

JAE20 English language II

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Vyučující

Bc. Lenka Muschová (přednášející)
Mgr. Julie Orlow (cvičící)

Předpoklady

JAE10 English language
JAE20 - English language is the follow-up course to JAE10 in which there is a general development of knowledge of the language as well as a focus on the individual fields of study offered at the school. Knowledge and skills are further developed and revised in the subsequent course - JAE30 English language for HOE.

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Mateřské obory/plány

• Hospitality Management (program UCP, BC)

Cíle předmětu

The goal of the course is to expand students’ knowledge of general English at levels B1+ - B2+ according to CEFR and to continue to build on the students’ understanding of specialized language for the hospitality industry and business environment. Students will expand on their ability to produce extended forms of oral and written communication. JAE20 also aims to help students develop and improve academic skills and strategies for in studying in English.

JAE20 is the follow-up course to JAE10 in which there is a general development of knowledge of the language as well as a focus on the individual fields of study offered at the school. Knowledge and skills are further developed and revised in the subsequent course - JAE30 English language for HOE.

Knowledge: Upon successful completion of the course, students of JAE20 will have a deeper and broader knowledge of general language skills, professional language terminology, and general communication for the work environment. They will have learned the most commonly used communication patterns to be able to respond correctly in certain situations. Students will have a broader understanding of idioms and their use, as well as being able to understand and produce select grammatical structures including future forms such as will, going to, present continuous, and future perfect, modal verbs for the past and future, the passive voice.

Competencies: Upon successful completion of the course, students of JAE20 will have learned the language to be able to communicate appropriately in situations that may occur in both professional and everyday life. They will be able to use vocabulary related to health and medicine and be able to discuss the importance of these terms as related to spas, as well as health and medical tourism. They will be able to discuss and debate issues and make predictions from clues. Students will know vocabulary related to transport and safety and be able to discuss different methods of transport. Students will also be able to use language for persuading and recommending action. They will have learned basic vocabulary for architecture and be able to describe buildings and bridges. They will be able to talk about requirements and describe facilities in a hotel. They will be able to identify fact and opinion, and use different language to avoid repetition in oral and written discourse.

Skills: Upon successful completion of the course, students of JAE20 will have learned the skills to evaluate resources on the internet, write short reports, and make recommendations. They will be able to describe, compare and contrast information in graphs, tables, and charts. Students will have learned to improve their listening skills with strategies for guessing and predicting using clues in the text. Students will have gained skills to write short opinion essays on topics related to hospitality.

Osnova

• 1. Revision of topics, structures, and vocabulary covered in JAE10
• 2. Discussion - what makes people/ companies successful
• 3. Listening: An interview with the MD of a technology development company
• 4. Using the internet for research; evaluating resources on the internet; writing short reports; making recommendations
• 5. Prefixes Present and past tenses
• 6. Writing: press release/ letter
• 7. Synonyms and word-building Passives
• 8. Scenario – making an action plan; language for persuading, recommending action
• 9. Describing graphs, charts, tables; comparison and contrast
• 10. Improving listening skills, guessing meanings of words; writing a travel blog; adverbs of degree
• 11. Architecture; passive voice, discourse uses; newspaper articles about hotels in space, bridges
• 12. Discussing and describing buildings; identifying facts and opinion

Literatura

• COTTON, D, D FALVEY a S Pearson KENT. Market Leader Upper Intermediate. 3rd Edition. Essex: Pearson, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4082-3709-0. info

Výukové metody

Class instruction is based on active student participation in dealing with select communicative situations both orally and in writing. Practical training takes the form of simulations of real-life scenarios focusing on situations in every-day life and professional environments. Simulations develop language skills and the ability to choose appropriate means of communication with respect to the specific situation and intercultural differences.

Metody hodnocení

Written test - 85% of student's grade (minimum 70% needed to pass) Assignments and class participation - 15% of grade Special conditions and details - Min. 80% attendance

Vyučovací jazyk

Angličtina

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• JAE10 English language I

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