Gary Rostock              Prakt cv z ang 8            Summer Semester 08

 

My part of this course will focus purely on speaking. Each lesson will use a theme as a starting point for speaking groupworks. You will be expected to have researched the ´theme´ which will be posted each week here and be ready to contribute to the dialogue in class. Exam grades will be based upon a speaking activity in which you will interact in pairs and evaluate a selection of photos or/and a scenario, the date for this exam will be published here later.

 

My marks will be thus:

 

Excellent (A1)              19 – 20 points
Very good (B 1.5)       17 –18 points

Good (C 2)                 15 – 16 points

Satisfactory (D 2.5)     13 – 14 points

Sufficient (E 3)             12 points

Unsatisfactory  (F)       11 points and less

 

 

Lectures will include the subjects below but specific dates for them will be published here every week.

 

L1 `Dumbing down in Czech universities: fact or fiction?` 

>L2 `America our saviour?` 

>L3  `Abortion: whose choice?`

>L4 `Michel Houellebecq and Martin Amis  have referred to Islam as the

most stupid of all religions: why?` 

>L5 `Genetics mean man will soon be able to create man, are we not then

immortal?`

>L6 `IT is beginning to invade all our private spaces?`

>L7 `Work is becoming focused on soft skills, do you agree?`

>L8 `Racism in the Europe: culture or colour?`

>L9 `Intellectualism: snobbery and elitism wrapped up in a nice book

cover?`

>L10 `Communism: can the hammer and sickle rise again?`

>L11 `Political corruption in the Cz Rep: will there ever be clean

politics here?`

>L12 `Nuclear power: power in our hands?`

>L13 `Feminism in the Cz Rep: are there disparities between the

 genders?`

>L14 `The new kinder capitalism of the last ten years essentially means

old capitalism with a nicer car in your driveway?`

>L15 `Green politics: the end of our lives as we know them?`