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Lecturer(s)
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Vejvoda Honza, Mgr.
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Tylšarová Helena, Mgr.
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Ramešová Andrea, Mgr.
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Dančová Markéta, Mgr.
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Rusnok Kristina, Mgr.
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Course content
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The aim of the course is to discuss in greater detail problematic points of English grammar and practise them. Students will be using English language corpora and other databases to compare easily confused structures and expressions. Syllabus: Week 1: Introduction: How to use corpora and other databases Week 2: Past tenses I Presentation: Articles with proper nouns Week 3: Past tenses II Presentation: Punctuation: how to read punctuation marks, commas in sentence complexes (compound and complex sentences, adverbial clauses, relative clauses), commas and connectors Week 4: Non-past tenses Presentation: Dependent clauses: conditional clauses, mixed conditionals; other types of DC (time, concession, etc.) Week 5: Revision: English system of tenses Presentation: The category of countability: nouns which are always uncountable (news, information, etc.), nouns both countable and uncountable (chocolate, tea, glass, etc.); partitive constructions (a piece of news) Week 6: Modal verbs I Presentation: Number and agreement: singularia and pluralia tantum (mumps, cattle, police, etc.), notional concord (singular subjects with plural verbs and vice versa: audience, public, team, etc.) Week 7: Modal verbs II Presentation: Pronouns, determiners and quantifiers: they vs. he or she (Everybody should mind their own business), reflexivity and reciprocity in Cze and En (smát se, umýt se, etc.; each other and one another); some and any, each and every, all and whole, both, half, few, little, many etc. Week 8: Reported speech I Presentation: Numerals: how to read and write dates (in BrE and AmE); mathematical operations; how to give weight/price/temperature etc.; "nula" in English, numerals in premodifiers (a two-year-old child x ten minutes, walk) Week 9: Reported speech II Presentation: Word order in English I: Indirect questions; two objects (sequence of objects: give sb sth vs. give sth to sb; obligatory prepositional object: explain sth to sb etc., prepositions to and for, etc.) Week 10: Infinitives and -ing forms Presentation: Word order in English II: Position of adverbials, sequence of adjectives etc.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
- Homework for Teaching
- 25 hours per semester
- Attendace
- 26 hours per semester
- Preparation for the Course Credit
- 24 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to discuss in greater detail problematic points of English grammar and practise them. Students will be using English language corpora and other databases to compare easily confused structures and expressions.
Students will be able to discuss in greater detail and practice problematic points of English grammar.
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Prerequisites
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1st year English Philology students
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam
attendance (3 absences maximum), active participation in class, home study, oral presentation, final test.
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Recommended literature
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Aarts, Bas. (2011). Oxford Modern English Grammar. Oxford: OUP.
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Biber, Douglas, et al. (1999). London Grammar of Spoken and Written English. London: Longman.
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Carter, Ronald, and Michael McCarthy. (2006). Cambridge Grammar of English. Cambridge: CUP.
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Hewings, Martin. (2015). Advanced Grammar in Use. Cambridge: CUP.
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Huddleston, Rodney, and Geoffrey K. Pullum. (2002). The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: CUP.
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Leech, Geoffrey N. (2004). Meaning and the English Verb. London: Pearson Education.
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Murphy, Raymond. (2012). English Grammar in Use. Cambridge: CUP.
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Swan, Michael. (2005). Practical English Usage. Oxford: OUP.
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