Universität Wien

340304 UE Grammar in Context: English (2016W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 34 - Translationswissenschaft
Continuous assessment of course work

Handouts: Students should download the handouts each week and bring them to the lesson.

Attendance: If you do not attend the first lesson (without good reason), you will be deregistered from the course and your place will be given to the next person on the waiting list.

Deregistration: If you wish to deregister from this course, please do so by 31 October 2016 at the latest. After this time, it will not be possible for you to leave the course.

If you are absent from the course more than twice during the semester, without good reason, you will receive a semester grade of 5.
Moodle

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 30 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 14.10. 12:30 - 14:00 Hörsaal 4 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 3.OG
  • Friday 21.10. 12:30 - 14:00 Hörsaal 4 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 3.OG
  • Friday 28.10. 12:30 - 14:00 Hörsaal 4 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 3.OG
  • Friday 04.11. 12:30 - 14:00 Hörsaal 4 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 3.OG
  • Friday 11.11. 12:30 - 14:00 Hörsaal 4 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 3.OG
  • Friday 18.11. 12:30 - 14:00 Hörsaal 4 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 3.OG
  • Friday 02.12. 12:30 - 14:00 Hörsaal 4 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 3.OG
  • Friday 09.12. 12:30 - 14:00 Hörsaal 4 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 3.OG
  • Friday 16.12. 12:30 - 14:00 Hörsaal 4 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 3.OG
  • Friday 13.01. 12:30 - 14:00 Hörsaal 4 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 3.OG
  • Friday 20.01. 12:30 - 14:00 Hörsaal 4 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 3.OG
  • Friday 27.01. 12:30 - 14:00 Hörsaal 4 ZfT Gymnasiumstraße 50 3.OG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Improvement of skills needed to interpret and produce grammatically correct texts in English.
Exercises in class and on Moodle.
Tense review, conditionals, affixes, gerunds & infinitives, modal verbs, reported speech, relative clauses, the passive
The language of instruction is English.

Assessment and permitted materials

Mid-semester test (40%), end-of-term test (40%), two mini tests (10% each). No materials permitted.
Grading: 90% 1
80% 2
70% 3
60% 4
59% 5 (fail)

Exam dates: Mini-test I: 4 Nov, Mid-term: 2 Dec, Mini-test II: 16 Dec, Final: 27 Jan

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Participation is required.
Mid-semester test (40%), end-of-term test (40%), two mini tests (10% each).

Examination topics

Mid-term and final exam: Tenses, conditionals, affixes and word formation, collocations, gerunds & infinitives, modal verbs, reported speech, relative clauses, the passive
Mini-test 1: Articles, dependent prepositions, linking words
Mini-test 2: Inversion, nouns, unreal time

Exam dates: Mini-test I: 4 Nov, Mid-term: 2 Dec, Mini-test II: 16 Dec, Final: 27 Jan

Reading list

Advanced Language Practice with key (Macmillan) ISBN: 1 405 00762

Advanced Grammar in Use, 3rd edition (Cambridge University Press) ISBN: 13: 978-1107697386

Destination C1 & C2 (Macmillan) ISBN: 13: 978-3190629558

Recycling Advanced English (Georgian Press) ISBN: 9780 521 4073 7

Association in the course directory

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