Descriptive grammar of English 2510-f1ENG2W-DGE
Ćwiczenia (CW) Semestr zimowy 2024/25

Required reading (selected chapters):

D. Biber, S. Conrad, G. Leech, Longman student grammar of spoken and written English (grammar reference), London 2002.

D. Biber, S. Conrad, G. Leech, Longman student grammar of spoken and written English (workbook), London 2002.

Additional reading:

materials on Moodle

S. Greenbaum, R. Quirk, A student’s grammar of the English language, London 1990.

The student

W1: describes selected aspects of English grammar in a descriptive perspective, using suitable terminology (K_W01, K_W09)

W2: enumerates characteristics and examples of parts of speech, elements of phrases and simple sentences (K_W03)

U1: is able to interpret texts pertaining to selected aspects of English descriptive grammar (K_U02)

U2: is capable of analyzing words, phrases and simple sentences on the basis of selected examples (K_U06)

U3: can select and interactively present information on parts of speech, elements of phrases and simple sentences (K_U05, K_U18)

A graded credit on the basis of in-class and home assignments, a mid-term test as well as one final test assessing the level of achieving particular learning outcomes.

Observation of participation, preparation and homework completion, in-class assignments documented in an individual log of progress - W1, W2, U1, U2, U3 (20% of the final grade)

Mid-term test - W1, W2, U2 (30% of the final grade)

In-class test - W1, W2, U2 (50% of the final grade)

GRADED CREDIT:

fail- below 60 %

satisfactory- 60-69 %

satisfactory plus- 70-74 %

good – 75-84 %

good plus- 85-89 %

very good- 90 and above %

Winter semester (Content distribution):

- Introduction and requirements

- Basic terminology

- Parts of speech

- Phrases and their types

- The simple sentence

- Syntactic elements of the simple sentence

- Semantic elements of the simple sentence

- In-class test

Expository teaching methods:

- interactive lecture

Exploratory teaching methods:

- discussion

- brain storming

- practical