Practical Knowledge of English: Module 3 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 short non-fiction texts and by improving their ability to communicate in various registers of spoken English. The module revises, expands and consolidates grammar structures related to the composition of correct relative clauses, adverbial and nominal clauses. In effect, the students will be able to use the above language structures correctly in various contexts of written and spoken English. The module emphasises abilities to plan and conduct argumentation and it expands students’ knowledge of the forms in which argumentation may be conducted as well as the dependencies between the argumentative method and the aim of the argumentation. The module introduces students to the contexts of language registers and the rules regarding their use in written compositions. The module also teaches basic techniques of control over the course of one’s utterance, autopresentation techniques, body language and it builds awareness of the ways in which the said techniques influence the reception of one’s utterance depending on a communicative situation. The module’s practical phonetics component includes presentation, discussion and practice of the following issues: fluency exercises (accent, weak forms, rhythm, basic intonation contours); phonetic transcription (practical exercises in primary and secondary stress and sentence stress); pragmatic and suprasegmental phonetics.

Successful completion of Practical Knowledge of English: Module 2.

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