Syllabus
Each session will include a weekly news bulletin prepared by pairs/trios of students (four short "ready-to-teach" news items to be submitted into the shared Google document by Thursday 6PM for Friday seminars and by Sunday 6PM for Monday seminars) - please sign up for a particular date and comply with the schedule to score 10 points towards your winter term credit (minus 10 for failing to meet the deadline).
PRONUNCIATION - International Pronunciation Alphabet (IPA)
LEGACY MEDIA X NEW MEDIA, BROADSHEETS X TABLOIDS, OBJECTIVE X BIASED, DISINFORMATION, MISINFORMATION, FAKE NEWS X TRUSTWORTHY REPORTING, FACT-CHECKING, VERIFIED FROM TWO SOURCES.
ELECTIONS VOCAB
WRITING HEADLINES, DECKS, AND LEADS
WORD STRESS
HEADLINE ENGLISH WORDS
HEADLINESE - TENDENCIES
TRICKY PRONUNCIATION
JOURNALISTIC JARGON: NEWSPAPER LAYOUT TERMS
WINTER TERM REVISION
+ seminar with a guest speaker (Jeremy Druker, TOL.org)
+ Prague Media Point Conference
Annotation
The course is designed for students of journalism studying for their BA or MA degree. It is focused on work with newspaper/mazazine/online articles and audio or video pieces coming from a wide range of mass media. The objective of the course is to expand students' vocabulary in terms of journalistic jargon and terminology related to news reporting, to improve students' speaking and writing skills, and to achieve accuracy in grammatical structures and pronunciation.
The study materials used in the classes are solely for the use of the students of the JLB009 course. Any circulation of the materials is prohibited.
Students who need B2 grammar practice as well as an introduction into the more specialized vocabulary of journalistic English, as well as basic English academic skills, are offered the lower course of English for Social Sciences I (JLB 053) in the winter term and English for Social Sciences II (JLB 054) in the summer term, Thursday 17-18.20 in #20 room of the Hollar building. https://fsv.cuni.cz/studium/vyuka-jazyku/hodnoceni-jazykove-dovednosti