Information on Courses of English Taught at FI

• VB001 - English - syllabus and completion pre-requisites

  This is not a course in the true sense of the word since it, in fact, represents only the examination all the FI students are expected to pass by the end of their sixth term.

  The requirements for the written examination are as follows:
  all the vocabulary, grammar and all the phrases of Angličtina pro jazykové školy I and II + all the lecture materials + all the specialized vocabulary of the texts dealt with in the VB035 and VB036 courses (for further details, please see the VB035 and VB036 syllabi).

  To be considered "passed", the student must reach the average score of at least 60 percent.

  The oral examination requirements:
  The oral exam requirements: a presentation on a computer-related topic (length: at least 5 minutes), all the vocabulary, grammar and phrases contained in Angličtina pro jazykové školy I and II and the specialized computer terminology contained in the teaching materials (specialized texts specified above + lecture materials).

• VB035 - English 1 - syllabus and completion pre-requisites

  Syllabus:

  • Week 1: Introduction, Entrance Test
  • Week 2: Angličtina pro jazykové školy I (Units 1 - 7 - revision (to be, to have; present continuous; tag questions; modal verbs; present simple); Texts and exercises in VB035 - English 1 Textbook (Access Control)
  • Week 3: Synchronization week - conversation on selected topics + areas not dealt with during the Week 2
  • Week 4:Angličtina pro jazykové školy I (Lessons 8 - 11 - revision (ordinals; There is... - There are... constructions); Texts and exercises in VB035 - English 1 Textbook (Audio)
  • Week 5: Angličtina pro jazykové školy I (Lessons 12 - 15 - revision (past simple; irregular verbs; indirect questions); Texts and exercises in VB035 - English 1 Textbook (Data Encryption); Quarter-Term Test 1 submitted in D1, D2, and D3, on Thursday, 8 p.m.
  • Week 6: Angličtina pro jazykové školy I (Lessons 16 - 18 - revision (much - many, little - few, every, each, both; could, should, would; irregular verbs; Texts and exercises in VB035 - English 1 Textbook (Decision Tree Clasification)
  • Week 7: Angličtina pro jazykové školy I (Lessons 19 - 20 - revision (adverbs; irregular verbs; other modal verbs) + Lessons 21 - 22 (that conjunction and infinitive expressing purpose); Texts and exercises in VB035 - English 1 Textbook (Stenography); MID-TERM TEST submitted in D1, D2, and D3, on Thursday, 8 p.m.
  • Week 8: Angličtina pro jazykové školy I (Lessons 23 - 24 - revision (to be going to...; irregular verbs; spelling); Texts and exercises in VB035 - English 1 Textbook (Web Spam Detection)
  • Week 9: Angličtina pro jazykové školy II (Lessons 1 - 2 - revision (present perfect simple; present perfect continuous; pronouns; irregular verbs); Texts and exercises in VB035 - English 1 Textbook (Peer to Peer Overlay Networks: Structure, Routing and Maintenance)
  • Week 10: Angličtina pro jazykové školy II (Lesson 3 - object + infinitive; subject + infinitive; past continuous); Texts and exercises in VB035 - English 1 Textbook (XML) Quarter-Term Test 2 submitted in D1, D2, and D3, on Thursday, 8 p.m.
  • Week 11: Angličtina pro jazykové školy II (Lessons 4 - 5 - past perfect; reported speech; irregular verbs); Texts and exercises in VB035 - English 1 Textbook (Web Advertising)
  • Week 12 and later: The week reserved for the work not done during the preceding seminars.
  • Week 13: FINAL TEST

  
  

  Here you can download all the materials used at the VB035 lectures:

  Lecture 1	Lecture 2	Lecture 3	Lecture 4	Lecture 5
  Lecture 6	Lecture 7	Lecture 8	Lecture 9	Lecture 10

  
  

  Completion pre-requisites:

  Every student attending the seminar has to sit for four tests - two quarter-term tests (Weeks 4 and 9) , one mid-term test submitted on one of the days of the Week 7, and the final VB035 one (submitted during or after the Week 12).

  The requirements for the Quarter-Term Test 1 are as follows: all the vocabulary, grammar and all the phrases of the Units 1-15 of Angličtina pro jazykové školy I + all the specialized vocabulary of the texts read and listening exercises heard up to the Week 4 (inclusive).

  The requirements for the Mid-Term Test are as follows: all the vocabulary, grammar and all the phrases of the Units 1-20 of Angličtina pro jazykové školy I + all the specialized vocabulary of the texts read and listening exercises heard up to the Week 7.

  The requirements for the Quarter-Term Test 2 are as follows: all the vocabulary, grammar and all the phrases of the Units 1-24 of Angličtina pro jazykové školy I and those of the Units 1-3 of Angličtina pro jazykové školy II + all the specialized vocabulary of the texts read and listening exercises heard up to the Week 10 (inclusive).

  The requirements for the final VB035 test are as follows: all the vocabulary, grammar and all the phrases of the Units 1-24 of Angličtina pro jazykové školy I + all the vocabulary, grammar and all the phrases of the Units 1-5 of Angličtina pro jazykové školy II + all the specialized vocabulary of the texts read and listening exercises heard up to the Week 12.

  To complete the course, the student must reach at least 60 percent of the total (maximum) number of points that can be attained for all the tests. The students coming to a seminar without their homework will be considered absent from it.

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  Každý student navštěvující seminář píše čtyři testy - dva čtvrtsemestrální (v průběhu týdnů 4 a 9), jeden půlsemestrální v průběhu sedmého týdne a konečný test předmětu VB035 (v průběhu dvanáctého týdne).

  Požadavky na první čtvrtsemestrální test jsou následující: veškerá slovní zásoba, gramatika a veškeré fráze z kapitol 1-14 učebnice Angličtina pro jazykové školy I + věškerá odborná slovní zásoba všech přečtených odborých textů a poslechových cvičení, se kterými se na seminařích doposud pracovalo.

  Požadavky na půlsemestrální test jsou následující: veškerá slovní zásoba, gramatika a veškeré fráze z kapitol 1-20 učebnice Angličtina pro jazykové školy I + věškerá odborná slovní zásoba všech přečtených odborých textů a poslechových cvičení, se kterými se na seminařích doposud pracovalo.

  Požadavky na druhý čtvrtsemestrální test jsou následující: veškerá slovní zásoba, gramatika a veškeré fráze z kapitol 1-24 učebnice Angličtina pro jazykové školy I + veškerá slovní zásoba, gramatika a veškeré fráze z kapitol 1-3 učebnice Angličtina pro jazykové školy II + věškerá odborná slovní zásoba všech přečtených odborých textů a poslechových cvičení, se kterými se na seminařích doposud pracovalo.

  Požadavky na konečný test jsou následující: veškerá slovní zásoba, gramatika a veškeré fráze z kapitol 1-24 učebnice Angličtina pro jazykové školy I + veškerá slovní zásoba, gramatika a veškeré fráze z kapitol 1-5 učebnice Angličtina pro jazykové školy II + věškerá odborná slovní zásoba všech přečtených odborých textů a poslechových cvičení, se kterými se na seminařích během uplynulých dvanácti týdnů pracovalo.

  Aby student získal zápočet, součet bodů za všechny jeho testy musí činit alespoň 60% maximálního počtu bodů dosažitelného za všechny testy dohromady. Studenti, kteří nebudou mít na semináři vypracovaný domácí úkol, budou považováni za nepřítomné.

• VB036 - English 2 - syllabus and completion pre-requisites

  Syllabus:

  • Week 1: Introduction, information on the new testing system
  • Week 2: Angličtina pro jazykové školy II: Lesson 7 - revision (would + past infinitive; conditionals, irregular verbs); Texts and exercises in VB036 - English 2 Textbook (Access Control)
  • Week 3: Angličtina pro jazykové školy II: Lesson 8 - revision (modal verbs + perfect infinitive); Texts and exercises in VB036 - English 2 Textbook (Client-Server DBMS)
  • Week 4: Angličtina pro jazykové školy II: Lesson 9 - revision (time clauses, Saxon genitive; "So do I", "Neither do I"); Texts and exercises in VB036 - English 2 Textbook (Image Representation)
  • Week 5: Angličtina pro jazykové školy II: Lessons 10 - 11 - revision (participles; use of gerunds I; irregular verbs); Texts and exercises in VB036 - English 2 Textbook (Processor Cache)
  • Week 6: MID-TERM TEST
  • Week 7: Angličtina pro jazykové školy II: Lessons 12, 14 - revision (use of gerunds II; concessions; "have (get) something done"; irregular verbs); Texts and exercises in VB036 - English 2 Textbook (Spatial Data Mining)
  • Week 8: Angličtina pro jazykové školy II: Lessons 14 - revision (infinitive replacing a clause, verbs denoting a change of state); Texts and exercises in VB036 - English 2 Textbook (Stemming)
  • Week 9: Arithmetic 1; Revision; Texts and exercises in VB036 - English 2 Textbook (Storage Devices)
  • Week 10: Angličtina pro jazykové školy II: Lessons 15 - 16 - revision ("I wish...", "If only ...", aspect - perfective and imperfective); Texts and exercises in VB036 - English 2 Textbook (Storage Protection)
  • Week 11: Angličtina pro jazykové školy II: Lesson 16 "... so that ..."; phrasal verbs II; irregular verbs); Texts and exercises in VB036 - English 2 Textbook (Video)
  • Week 12: Studies at University - related terminology
  • Week 13: Arithmetic II; Politeness in Correspondence; Revision; Final Test

  
  

  Here you can download all the materials used at the VB036 lectures:

  Lecture 11	Lecture 12	Lecture 13	Lecture 14	Lecture 15
  Lecture 16	Lecture 17	Lecture 18	Lecture 19	Lecture 20

  
  

  Completion pre-requisites:

  Every student attending the seminar has to sit for two tests - a mid-term test submitted on one of the days of Week 6, and the final VB036 one (submitted during Week 13).

  The requirements for the Mid-Term Test are as follows: all the vocabulary, grammar and all the phrases of Lessons 7 - 11 of Angličtina pro jazykové školy II + all the specialized vocabulary of the texts read and listening exercises heard up to Week 6.

  The requirements for the final VB036 test are as follows: all the vocabulary, grammar and all the phrases of Lessons 7 - 16 of Angličtina pro jazykové školy II + all the specialized vocabulary of the texts read and listening exercises heard up to Week 13.

  To complete the course, the student must reach at least 60 percent of the total (maximum) number of points that can be attained for all the tests. The student is allowed to be absent from classes for up to four times. Two of these must be properly excused (a letter of excuse signed by a person of authority (doctor, judge) and duly submitted to the Office for Studies). The students coming to a seminar without their homework will be considered absent from it.

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  Každý student navštěvující seminář píše dva testy - jeden půlsemestrální v průběhu 6. týdne a konečný test předmětu VB036 (v průběhu 13. týdne).

  Požadavky na půlsemestrální test jsou následující: veškerá slovní zásoba, gramatika a veškeré fráze z kapitol 7 - 11 učebnice Angličtina pro jazykové školy II + veškerá odborná slovní zásoba všech přečtených odborných textů a poslechových cvičení, se kterými se na seminářích doposud pracovalo.

  Požadavky na konečný test jsou následující: veškerá slovní zásoba, gramatika a veškeré fráze z kapitol 7 - 16 učebnice Angličtina pro jazykové školy II + veškerá odborná slovní zásoba všech přečtených odborných textů a poslechových cvičení, se kterými se na seminářích během 13 týdnů pracovalo.

  Aby student získal zápočet, součet bodů za všechny jeho testy musí činit alespoň 60% maximálního počtu bodů dosažitelného za všechny testy dohromady. Studenti smějí být na seminářích nejvýše 4x nepřítomni. 2 z těchto absencí musí být omluveny (řádná omluvenka podepsaná zodpovědnou osobou a řádně podaná na Studijní oddělení). Studenti, kteří nebudou mít na semináři vypracovaný domácí úkol, budou považováni za nepřítomné.

• VB038 - English conversation - syllabus and completion pre-requisites

  The course strives to teach students to give a fluent academic paper on an IT-related subject and increase their potential to readily react to their audience's questions and comments. Special attention is paid to sentence connectors, pronunciation, persuasive force of the message projected, advanced grammar structures typical of academic speech, and other related areas.
  The course is based mainly on the conversation on specialized topics related to computing and informatics. Advanced knowledge of English is required since the whole course is given in this language.

  Syllabus:

  • Week 1: general introduction, examination requirements, presentation-related instructions 1, sentence connectors
  • Week 2: presentation-related instructions 2, students' presentations and their discussion
  • Week 3: tips pertaining to making presentations in public, fighting stage fright, students' presentations and their discussion
  • Week 4: students' presentations and their discussion
  • Week 5: students' presentations and their discussion, conditionals - revision
  • Week 6: students' presentations and their discussion
  • Week 7: students' presentations and their discussion, subjunctives
  • Week 8: students' presentations and their discussion
  • Week 9: students' presentations and their discussion
  • Week 10: students' presentations and their discussion
  • Week 11: students' presentations and their discussion
  • Week 12: students' presentations and their discussion
  • Week 13: seminar reserved for the work undone during the semester

  Completion pre-requisites:

  Every student who wants to take an examination in this subject has to submit a translation (1 page A4, double - spaced) accompanied by their own English résumé of the passage (no longer than 10 lines) and the original English text (remember to enclose the bibliographical information!). The total length of the translation and résumé should not therefore exceed 1 page (A4, double - spaced, reasonable font size) and 10 lines or should not be considerably shorter.
  Both the translation and the original text should be inserted into the envelope titled VB038 Translations hanging on the noticeboard next to the room C507 at least three weekdays prior to the examination proper. The examination of the students failing to meet one or more of the requirements mentioned above will automatically be considered failed and the students will not be allowed to sit for its oral part!!
  The oral part of the examination consists in a discussion of specialized topic (that of the translation) as well as questions pertaining to the grammatical and vocabulary areas dealt with in the seminars.

• VB039 - English I seminar - syllabus and completion pre-requisites

  VB039 is a complementary course to VB035 and its aim is to give students a lot of practice in advanced language and communication skills and to help them communicate more effectively by improving their grammatical knowledge and developing IT-related vocabulary. The broad range of lesson themes includes computer architecture, computer applications, peripherals, operating systems, graphical user interfaces and applications programs. For further details see the VB035 syllabus.

  Syllabus:

  • Weeks 1-2: Oxford English for Information Technology - Data Security 1
  • Week 3-4: Oxford English - Data Security 2
  • Weeks 5-6: Oxford English - The ex-hacker
  • Week 7-8: Oxford English - Software Engineering
  • Week 9-10: Oxford English - People in Computing
  • Weeks 11-13: revision and doing the work not done during the preceding weeks

  Apart from the discussion of the aforementioned topics, the seminars are also dedicated to practicing the grammar dealt with in the VB035 seminars given the same week.

  Completion pre-requisites:

  Pre-requisites for the completion of the course are as follows: seminar attendance, doing homework, colloquium.

• VB040 English II seminar - syllabus and completion pre-requisites

  VB040 is a complementary course to VB036 and its aim is to give students a lot of practice in advanced language and communication skills and to help them communicate more effectively by improving their grammatical knowledge and developing IT-related vocabulary. The broad range of lesson themes includes computer architecture, computer applications, peripherals, operating systems, graphical user interfaces and applications programs. For further details see the VB036 syllabus.

  Syllabus:

  • Weeks 1-2: introduction, revision
  • Week 3-4: Oxford English - Recent Developments in IT
  • Weeks 5-6: Oxford English - The Future of IT
  • Week 7-8: Oxford English - Electronic Publishing
  • Week 9-10: revision, drilling exercises
  • Weeks 11-12: revision, drilling exercises
  • Weeks 13-14: revision and doing the work not done during the preceding weeks

  Apart from the discussion of the aforementioned topics, the seminars are also dedicated to practicing the grammar dealt with in the VB036 seminars given the same week.

  Completion pre-requisites:

  Pre-requisites for the completion of the course are as follows: seminar attendance, doing homework, colloquium.
  The student is allowed to be absent from classes for up to four times. Two of these must be properly excused (a letter of excuse signed by a person of authority (doctor, judge) and duly submitted to the Office for Studies). The students coming to a seminar without their homework will be considered absent from it.