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This document outlines the timetable and topics for an English usage course at the Faculty of Humanities at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. The course is designed to improve students' critical thinking and exposure to English through discussions of topics like movies, culture, advertising, technology, and relationships. Students' grades will be based 50% on presentations and 50% on a final vocabulary and grammar test.

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Lektorske Cvicenia - Sylaby

This document outlines the timetable and topics for an English usage course at the Faculty of Humanities at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. The course is designed to improve students' critical thinking and exposure to English through discussions of topics like movies, culture, advertising, technology, and relationships. Students' grades will be based 50% on presentations and 50% on a final vocabulary and grammar test.

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Fakulta humanitných vied UMB, Ružová 11, 975 53 Banská Bystrica

Katedra anglických a amerických štúdií


Oddelenie prekladu a tlmočenia

LEKTORSKÉ CVIČENIA
Časovo-tematický plán

Školský rok: 2008/2009


Vyučujúci: PhDr. Ľ. Brenkusová
Semester: zimný
Forma štúdia: externá
Počet kreditov: 4

English Usage in Practice


The class is designed primarily to improve students´ critical thinking and creativity while
analyzing and discussing various interesting issues. Through the variety of interactive
activities, exercises, and debates a student is exposed to new words and views. The course
serves as a bridge between secondary grammar school and university level.

1. Introduction to the course


2. The Moving Image
• Presentation of your favourite movie
• What makes a good movie?
• The book and the book made into movie
Use of English: emphasis, inversion, dependent prepositions
3. Aspects of Culture
• What is the problem with (Hispanic) soap operas
• Authentic art versus Kitchy design
• What do you think best represents Slovak contemporary culture?
Use of English: comparison, multiple-choice questions
4. Advertising and Consumerism
• Consumers´ way of life
• The impact of media on individuals
• Seeing is believing
• Synergy of music, colour and word in advertisements
Use of English: language of advertising, pronouns
5. The Mind and the Unconscious
• To what extent do our dreams reflect reality
• Freud´s interpretation of dreams
• Jung´s symbols
Use of English: verb patterns, emphasis, cleft sentences
6. Technology and Progress
• Does new technology always mean a progress?
• Is technology a means of alienation?
• The impact of technology on peoples´ values
Use of English: future forms with modal verbs, idiomatic expressions
7. People and Relationships
• The value of friendship
• Marriage or living together
• Ways of involving the disabled into society
Use of English: past tenses, present perfect tenses
8. Adventure Holidays
• A sense of adventure
• Adrenaline sports
• Drugs in sport, sport ethics
Use of English: collocating prepositions, sporting idioms
9. 21st Century Problems
• Slovakia´s accession to EU
• Poverty – world problem
• War against terrorism
Use of English: newspaper vocabulary, reporting verbs
10. Environment
• Industrial pollution
• Genetic enegineering
• How do Slovaks protect environment?
Use of English: conditionals, environmental vocabulary
11. Places
• If I had the chance to change my nationality/citizenship I would choose…
• Less developed countries
Use of English: adverbs describing place, adjectives of atmosphere
12. Slovakia
• Ten things I like about my country
• Ten things I dislike about my country
Use of English: indirect speech, fixed phrases
13. Final test

Your final grade will be based on the following:


• Presentation 50%
• Final test (vocabulary, grammar) 50 %

Evaluation system for presentations:


• Vocabulary
• Grammar
• Ability to express ideas/fluency
• Leading the discussion with your classmates
• Visual aids

Recommended literature:
Proficiency Gold: coursebook, London: Pearson Education-Longman, 2000
In Advance: coursebook

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