FPF:UCJAU100 The English language system - Course Information

UCJAU100 The English language system

Extent and Intensity

0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: -.

Guaranteed by

Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Secondary School Teacher Training in English (programme FPF, N7504 UcSS)

Syllabus (in Czech)

• 1. The system of vowels in English and in Czech. English diphthongs and triphthongs. The system of consonants in English and in Czech.
  2. The assimilation of voice, manner and place in English and in Czech. Connected speech phenomena.
  3. The word stress in English and the rhythm of the English clause. Strong forms and weak forms.
  4. Relevance of syllable.
  5. Received Pronunciation and English dialects.
  6. Verbs: The primary auxiliary do, have, be. The modal auxiliaries can/could, may/might, shall/should, will/would, must, ought to, and notes on their less frequent uses.
  7. The marginal modal auxiliaries: used, dare, need. The probability and the modals. Time, tense and aspect. Expressing the future.
  8. The mood of the verb.
  9. Nouns. The formal aspect.
  10. Nouns. The semantic aspect.
  11. Pronouns. Characteristics of pronouns. Classification. Specific pronouns: personal, reflexive (in their emphatic and non-emphatic use), reciprocal, possessive, relative, interrogative, demonstrative.
  12. Pronouns. Indefinite pronouns: universal pronouns (all, every, each, both). Partitive pronouns (some, some-, any, any-, no, no-, other-s, either, neither). Quantifying pronouns (many, much, few, little, several, enough, one).
  13. Adjectives.
  14. Adverbs
  15. Numerals
  16. Special uses of numerals. Dates, fractions, multiplicative numerals, arithmetical operations, geometry. Weights and measures.
  17. Prepositions. Conjunctions. Interjections. Imitation of sounds.
  18. Sentence. Simple and Compound Sentence. Complex Sentence and Clause. Clause elements: Subject, (Predicative) Verb (Phrase), Object, Complement, Adverbial.
  19. Noun Phrase. Basic Noun Phrase. Determinatives. Complex Noun Phrase. Premodifiers and Postmodifiers.
  20. Verb Phrase. Verb and the Type of Clause. Verb Classes: Copulas, Transitives (Monotransitives, Ditransitives, Complex Transitives), Intransitives.
  21. Word Order in Statements. Passive Voice Transformation. Statement Tags. Short Answers. Clause Negation and Partial
  22. Broad Modality. Questions, Commands, Exclamations.
  23. Clause elements concord of number, person, and gender. Direct and Indirect Speech (Question). Sequence of Tenses. Pro-forms. Ellipsis.
  24. Coordination and Subordination. Complex Sentence. Syntactic Functions of Subordinate Clauses. Functional Classes of Subordinate Clauses. Finite, Nonfinite, and Verbless Clauses.
  25. To-Infinitive Clauses, -ing Clauses, Bare Infinitive Clauses. Verbless Clauses. Direct Object and Clause (to-infinitive, bare infinitive, -ing participle, -ed participle).
  26. Relative Clauses (Restrictive and Non-restrictive). Coordination and Apposition. Appositive Clauses. Sentential Relative Clauses.
  27. Adverbial Clauses of Time, Place, Cause and Reason, Purpose (Final Clauses), Result of Consequence. Concessive and Conditional-Concessive Clauses.
  28. Clauses of Similarity and Comparison, Proportion, and Preference. Comment Clauses. Clauses of Contrast and Clauses of Exception.
  29. Conditional Clauses.
  30. Principal types of word formation
  31. Minor types of word formation.
  32. Phrasal and prepositional verbs.
  33. Multi-word expressions.
  34. Sense relations.
  35. False friends. Transfer of meaning.
  36. Origin of English word stock.
  37. Text cohesion and coherence.
  38. Irregularities in English word order.
  

Language of instruction

English

Further Comments

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.

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