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Terminated in academic year 2014/2015

English Language b/III

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 712-0107/02
Abbreviation Ab/III
Course title English Language b/III
Credits 1
Coordinating department Institute of Languages
Course coordinator Mgr. Zuzana Trawinská

Subject syllabus

Cambridge English for Engineering: Units 6 – 8.7

1. Technical development
2. Suggesting ideas and solutions
3. Assessing feasibility
4. Discussing budget, schedule, capacity, dimensions, layout, looks
5. Describing improvements and redesigns
6. Idioms to describe feasibility
7. Describing health and safety precautions
8. Types of industrial hazards
9. Emphasising the importance of precautions
10. Discussing regulations and standards
11. Common language on safety notices
12. Language style in written instructions
13. Monitoring and control, referring to measurable parameters
14. Credit test

Technology 2: Units 9 - 12 od ZS 2013/2014

1. Petroleum engineering and oil derived products
2. Present tense review
3. Oil platforms
4. Environmental engineering
5. How to save the Earth
6. Reported speech
7. Talking about fully-sustainable eco-city
8. Cleaning water
9. Robotics – how robots work
10. Causing, preventing, and enabling links
11. Talking about domestic appliances
12. Polite requests, responding to requests
13. Global warming, reading figures
14. Credit test

Literature

GLENDING, H., POHL, A. Technology 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008. ISBN 9780194569538.

Advised literature

MCCARTHY, M.,O´DELL, F. English Vocabulary in Use Elementary. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press 2010. ISBN 9780521136174 .

MURPHY, R. Cambridge English Grammar In Use Elementary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007. ISBN 978-0-521-67543-7.

IBBOTSON, M. Professional English in Use Engineering. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009. ISBN 9780521734882.

MURPHY, R. English Grammar in Use 3rd Edition with Answers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2004. ISBN 9780521537629.