Universität Wien

340070 UE Grammar in Context: English (2016S)

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 31st March 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.

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

  • Tuesday 08.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 6 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 EG
  • Tuesday 15.03. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 6 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 EG
  • Tuesday 05.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 6 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 EG
  • Tuesday 12.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 6 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 EG
  • Tuesday 19.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 6 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 EG
  • Tuesday 26.04. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 6 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 EG
  • Tuesday 03.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 6 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 EG
  • Tuesday 10.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 6 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 EG
  • Tuesday 24.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 6 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 EG
  • Tuesday 31.05. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 6 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 EG
  • Tuesday 07.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 6 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 EG
  • Tuesday 14.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 6 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 EG
  • Tuesday 21.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 6 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 EG
  • Tuesday 28.06. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 6 Franz-Klein-Gasse 1 EG

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Improvement of skills needed to interpret and produce grammatically correct texts in English.

The language of instruction is English.

Assessment and permitted materials

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

Grading: 90% 1
80% 2
70% 3
60% 4
59% 5 (fail)

No materials permitted

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

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

Reading list

Recommended Reading:

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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