Praktický jazyk: gamatika a slovná zásoba

Practical Language: grammar and vocabulary

Jela Kehoe, PhD.

jela.kehoe@ku.sk

 

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