Syllabus
ENGLISH FOR IMS II – SUMMER SEMESTER – SYLLABUS
Please submit all your assignments via Moodle 1 (English for IMS II) – sign up with passwords available in SIS syllabus for a correct parallel class held either on Monday or Thursday
Also remember to regularly send filled-out Vocabulary sheets via Moodle 1
Poster Presentation sign-up – deadline February 25 – through the link available in our SIS syllabus
My Own Glossary – deadline March 26 – A CONTINUOUS INDEPENDENT WORK
Glossary of Declaration of Independence – deadline May 7
News Overview – deadline May 10 - A CONTINUOUS INDEPENDENT WORK
Check other deadlines in the syllabus below
!!! Students can miss the deadline for any assignment no more than 3 times. Students failing the deadline more than 3 times may not proceed to the final test.
TOPIC no.
TOPIC
DATES OF THE CLASSES
ACADEMIC GRAMMAR
WRITING ASSIGNMENT
(more info in corresponding worksheets) 1
Dictatorship and undemocratic regimes
February 19 and 22
Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing (deadline – March 1) 2
Gender in politics
February 26 and 29
Referencing 3
Diplomacy and foreign policy
March 4 and 7
Commonly confused words/academic style – formal vs. informal language 4
Representation, election and voting
March 11 and 14
Connectors/ -ic and –ical adjectives 5
War stories
March 18 and 21
Complex prepositions/Using quotations
Use of quotations (deadline - April 1) 6
Corruption and controversies/Crime and punishment
March 25 and April 4
Academic prefixes
MID-TERMS
NOTE: no regular classes are held
April 8 and 11 (students’ last names A-K)
April 15 and 18 (students’ last names L-Z) 7
Political ideologies/Populism/Nationalism
April 22 and 25
Referring to figures and tables/Referring backwards and forwards 8
Free speech and human rights
April 29 and May 2
Nominalization II 9 + 10
Constitution
Global Challenges
May 6 and 9
Restrictive /defining) and Non-restrictive (non-defining) relative clauses
PRE-TERMS
NOTE: no regular classes are held
May 13 and 16
Annotation
This course is designed for students of International Relations. A prerequisite for this course is a required minimum knowledge of upper-intermediate level (B2). This course will provide students with the crucial vocabulary from the study field of international relations. In summer semester, the course results in an exam. Grading will be based on the assessment scale with the grades A-F - see the Exam Requirements below.
A successful completion of the course English for International Studies JLB007 is a pre-requisite for enrolment in this course.
MOODLE MANUAL for the first signing in: (in English) https://dl.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/studenti-prihlaseni-navod-aj.pdf
Register through „Zápis do skupin“ (registration for groups) and enter one of the following passwords, depending on your group:
Password for Monday groups: monday1 (the group of 8-9.20), monday2 (the group of 9.30-10.50), monday3 (the group of 11-12.20)
Password for Thursday groups: thursday1 (the group of 2-3.20), thursday2 (the group of 3.30-4.50), thursday3 (the group of 5-6.20)