Course title: Contemporary English Language I
Lecturers: Majerovic, Zgaga, Zubak Pivarski
ECTS credits: 5
Semester: 1st (winter)
Status: mandatory
Form of instruction: language classes, 4 classes a week
Enrolment requirements: enrolment in the undergraduate English language and literature program
Course requirements: written and oral exam
Course description:
This course focuses on normative grammar of the contemporary English language, placing special emphasis on syntactic units and their features, as well as on the reading of texts in order to expand vocabulary and develop written and oral communication skills.
Objectives:
The objective of the course is for students to develop their abilities of comprehension, as well as written and oral expression in English through various reading, writing, listening and speaking exercises, and through the individual study of grammatical patterns. Students are also taught how to use various reference books, especially dictionaries and grammar handbooks.
Reading:
TEXTS:
– A Reader for Students of Contemporary English Language 1 and 2
– Bašić, Ivana; Zubak Pivarski, Marina: A Reader for Contemporary English Language 1 and 2, Zagreb: FF press, 2013
– Bašić, Ivana; Majerović, Marko; Zubak Pivarski, Marina: Grammar Workbook for Contemporary English Language 1, Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada, Zagreb, 2016
GRAMMAR BOOKS:
– Eastwood, John (2005). Oxford Learner’s Grammar: grammar finder, Oxford: Oxford University Press
– Swan, Michael (2005). Practical English Usage, Oxford: Oxford University Press
– Biber, Douglas; Susan Conrad; Geoffrey Leech (2002). Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English, Harlow: Longman, (Chapters 2, 3)
– Eastwood, John (1994). Oxford Guide to English Grammar, Oxford: Oxford University Press (out of print)
– Karlovčan, Vjekoslav (2002). A Survey of English Grammar, Zagreb: Profil International
– Grammar Exercises for Students of CEL 1 (exercise book/workbook)
DICTIONARIES:
Students are required to use on a regular basis at least one monolingual dictionary of the English language:
e.g. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Seventh edition. Oxford University Press. Oxford, 2005
Week by week schedule:
1. INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH GRAMMAR
– linguistic levels (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics)
2. INTRODUCTION TO READING TEXTS
– the use of dictionaries, phonological transcription
– cultural background in texts, vocabulary
3. GRAMMATICAL UNITS: WORD, PHRASE, CLAUSE, SENTENCE
– word classes
– phrases
– sentence elements
4. ENGLISH MORPHOLOGY AND SINTAX
– English compared with Croatian – word formation, word order, sequence of tenses
5. 1st TEXT FROM THE READER
– comprehension and vocabulary
6. VERBS
– VERB: word class, verb phrase, sentence element
– Verb classes: transitive, intransitive, linking
– Verb phrase: finite, non-finite (infinitives, participles, gerunds)
7. 1st TEXT FROM THE READER
– vocabulary
8. SENTENCE ANALYSIS
– sentence elements – S, V, O, C, A
– types of clauses
9. VERB CATEGORIES
– voice, tense, modality, aspect
– auxiliary verbs, ordinary verbs
10. 2nd TEXT FROM THE READER
– comprehension and vocabulary
11. TIME, TENSE, ASPECT
12. 2nd TEXT FROM THE READER
– vocabulary
13. TEST – grammar and vocabulary
14. TENSES – introduction, PRESENT TENSES
15. 3rd TEXT FROM THE READER
– comprehension and vocabulary
16. PRESENT TENSES – exercises
PAST TENSES – introduction
17. 3rd TEXT FROM THE READER
– vocabulary
18. PAST TENSES – exercises
19. 4th TEXT FROM THE READER
– comprehension and vocabulary
20. EXPRESSING THE FUTURE
21. 4th TEXT FROM THE READER
– vocabulary
22. MODAL VERBS – introduction
23. MODAL VERBS – exercises
24. MODAL VERBS – revision
25. 5th TEXT FROM THE READER
– comprehension and vocabulary
26. ACTIVE/PASSIVE VOICE
27. NON-FINITE VERB FORMS
– infinitives, gerunds, participles
– non-finite clauses
28. GRAMMAR – revision
29. GRAMMAR – revision; VOCABULARY – revision
30. REVISION
