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English for International Studies II

Class at Faculty of Social Sciences |
JLB008

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)