Practical Knowledge of English: Module 2 Field of study: English Philology
Programme code: 02-S1FA12.2018

The module aims at improving the students’ passive and active command of English by broadening their vocabulary and language structures, by inviting them to compose longer texts and utterances. The module revises, expands and consolidates grammar structures related to modal verbs, infinitive structures, gerundial and participial structures. In effect, the students will be able to use the above language structures correctly in various contexts of written and spoken English. The module introduces basic techniques of practical rhetoric, including aspects of political correctness, ways of paraphrasing and summarizing fragments of texts and utterances and correct punctuation in English, all of which are practised by the students. The module also focuses on formal elements of longer non-literary texts, their classification and discursive specificity related to their practical usage. The module’s practical phonetics component includes presentation, discussion and practice of the following issues: diphthongs – oral practice and reading texts; fricative and affricate consonants; places of articulation in English and Polish, dental consonants in consonantal clusters; plosive consonants and their places of articulation; aspiration; partial devoicing; English /h/ and Polish /x/; types of plosion in plosive consonants – unrealized plosion; nasal plosion; lateral plosion, glottal stops; nasal and lateral consonants – distribution of nasal velars; variants of /l/; syllabic consonants; variants of /r/; English and Polish semivowels.

Successful completion of Practical Knowledge of English: Module 1

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