Praktický jazyk: gamatika a slovná zásoba
Practical Language: grammar and vocabulary
Jela Kehoe, PhD.
Aim of the course: This course allows students to improve their practical command of English language at B2 level while incorporating selected aspects of descriptive and contrastive grammar theory with emphasis on terminology and various taxonomies related to English grammar.
Evaluation: at least 60% success in practical tests (Mid-term and End-of-the-Term), at least 60% success in the oral exam (informal interview)
Course topics:
Session 1 – Prescriptive vs. descriptive linguistics, affixes, derivational vs. inflectional suffixes, sentence (declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamative), tenses, the parts of speech, the parts of a sentence.
Session 2 – Nouns – countable vs non-count, number (regular, irregular, collective nouns), gender,
Session 3 – Nouns - noun clause, determination (focusing on indefinite, definite and zero article)
Session 4 – Pronouns (basic classification); 12 English tenses from structural point of view; infinitives; present participle, past simple and past participle;
Session 5 – Adjectives, Perfect tenses usage
Session 6 – Adverbs, Expressing future events
Session 7 – Lexical vs. modal verbs; imperatives, Tenses – mix/all
Session 8 – Mid-Term Test (content: any/all above)
Session 9 – Be, Have, Do, Modal auxiliaries (present)
Session 10 - Modal auxiliaries (past)
Session 11 – Passive voice
Session 12 – Conditional sentences
Literature:
L. G. Alexander: Longman English Grammar, Longman, 1998 (2003)
Michael Vince: First Certificate Language Practice, Macmillan, 2003
Michael Vince: Advanced Language Practice, Macmillan, 2003
Geoffrey Leech: A Glossary of English Grammar, Edinburgh University Press, 2006
- Učiteľ: Kehoe Jela