Course detail

Reading Skills.

FEKT-SJA2Acad. year: 2005/2006

The course is focused on efficient reading and reading comprehension,mostly in combination with other skills.Different types of general and professional texts are used,as well as different reading techniques,such as scanning,skinning,intensive reading,and reading for problem solving.Both general and professional vocabulary is enriched.
The course is suitable for the PGS exam and for other exams organized outside the faculty.
It is a two-semester course.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

PhDr. Marcela Borecká, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Foreign Languages (UJAZ)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students improve their reading skills,comprehension of English texts and they enrich their general and specialized vocabulary.

Prerequisites

It is a course of the non-structured ending study program

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Credit
Examination

Course curriculum

Winter semester
1.Introduction, needs analysis questionnaire,programme
2. evaluation of the questionnaire, reading techniques
3. to 11.scanning, skimming, intensive reading, vocabulary work,technical texts related to environment, safety, IT, communications, CV, job interview
12. revision
13. semester test

Summer semester
1. Introduction, programme of the semester, theory of reading
2. to 11. vocabulary work, British press, mathematical expressions, comprhension reading, reconstruction of incomplete texts, a complete cloze
12. revision
13. semester test

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Improvement of reading skills and reading comprehension.
Mastering different types of texts and different reading techniques.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

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.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

T.Hutchinson:English for Technical Communication,Longman
E.Glendinning:Electrical and Mechanical Engng.,Oxford University Press
S.Greenall:Effective Reading,Cambridge University Press
K.Boeckner:Computing,Oxford University Press
BBC English Magazine
Autentické materiály z tisku a internetu
E.H.Glendinning: Oxford English for IT

Type of course unit

Language exercise

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Marcela Borecká, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Course organization
Needs analysis questionnaire,evaluation
Examples of different reading techniques and types of texts
Reading for survival and for gist
Scanning a text for a piece of information
Jumbled sentences and paragraphs
Opposites
Refrigeration, Air-conditioning
Bluetooth technology
Cloze tests
Branches of engineering
Revision
Semester test
Repairs and safety at work
Corrections of texts
Examples - British newspapers
Individual parts of British newspapers
Looking for synonyms in a technical text
Renewable energy sources
Complete cloze
Databases
Peripheries
Practising reading mathematical expressions
Practising reading mathematical formulae
Revision
Semester test

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

Reading Skills.

Type of course unit