English for Students of Film 1

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Subject guarantor

Hana BARTŮŇKOVÁ, Klára BICANOVÁ, Zdeněk KRÁL

Name of lecturer(s)

Hana BARTŮŇKOVÁ, Klára BICANOVÁ, Zdeněk KRÁL

Contents

Week 1: Introduction + Studying at University, Present simple and continuous, non-action verbs, frequency adverbs

Week 2: Studying at the Film and TV Faculty (FAMU), Present perfect simple x past simple, present perfect continuous, time expressions

Week 3: Film School or Not?, Comparatives, superlatives of adjectives and adverbs

Week 4: Learning to Make Films by Watching Films, Past simple, past continuous, past perfect, used to

Week 5: Basic Filmmaking Vocabulary 1, Anybody, nobody, everybody, none, neither of

Week 6: Basic Filmmaking Vocabulary 2, Future forms – will, going to, present continuous

Week 7: Countable and uncountable nouns, quantifiers

Week 8: Filmmaker’s Army: All the Jobs in Film, Articles

Week 9: Screenplay, Passive

Week 10: Pitching and Pre-Production, Modals 1: must, have to, should, ought to, be supposed to

Week 11: Cinematography and Editing, Modals 2: Can, could, be able to, be allowed to

Week 12: Sound, Time prepositions, words with get

Week 13: Paweł Pawlikowski's Ida: The Journey from Script to Film 1, Zero + first conditional, Future time clause

Week 14: Paweł Pawlikowski's Ida: The Journey from Script to Film 2, Verbs + -ing / to ...

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is for students to consolidate and develop language skills - both receptive, i.e. reading and listening, and productive, i.e. speaking and writing - while acquiring field-specific vocabulary (film and film-making process).

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

• to understand and discuss main ideas of intermediate-level texts, related to film and fim-making process
• to communicate using the areas of grammar covered by the course (see the detailed course outline below)

Prerequisites and other requirements

Approx. B1 level (based on the Common European Framework of Reference) at the start of the course.

Literature

Online course (Moodle e-learning platform): https://moodle.amu.cz/course/view.php?id=1217

Evaluation methods and criteria

• compulsory attendance (min. 60% = max. 6 absences per semester, a non-negotiable pre-requisite for the final test, not compulsory for students in group 99)
• active participation in class (emphasis on speaking) 30% (not compulsory for students in group 99)
• vocabulary journal 30% (deadline set by teacher, compulsory for all students): min: 30 words (15 general English + 15 study-related), for instructions and example see: https://moodle.amu.cz/course/view.php?id=1217#section-1
• final test 40% (compulsory for all students)

Assessment scale:

•A = 100-90%

•B = 89-80%

•C = 79-73%

•D = 72-66%

•E = 65-60%

•F = 59% and less

When writing your work, you will understandably use documents (i.e. books and articles, etc.) by other authors. It is important, however, to make it clear what is your own text and what has been borrowed from others, i.e. you should always duly reference the source you have used in the form of a bibliographic citation. The obligation to uphold the ethics of citations is set out in the Copyright Act No. 121/2000. Failure to cite sources used is considered plagiarism.

Plagiarism is thus considered to be:

appropriating someone else’s manuscript and its publication under one’s own name appropriating the ideas or results of someone else’s work without specifying the real author appropriating part of a text or paragraphs without providing a bibliographic citation the appropriation of an original text and merely making stylistic adjustment.

For more information please go to: https://www.amu.cz/en/study/bachelors-masters-and-doctoral-theses-vskp/drafting-and-submitting-theses/ethics-writing-scholarly-text-and-how-cite-sources-used/?

Course web page

https://moodle.amu.cz/course/view.php?id=1217

Note

Students in group 99:

• are exempt from the attendance and the activity in class
• must submit writing assignment and vocabulary journal and take the final test in order to pass the course.

Contact person: PhDr. Zdeněk Král (zdenek.kral@amu.cz)

Schedule for winter semester 2023/2024:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2023/2024:

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The subject is a part of the following study plans

• Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Bc (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
• Film Directing_Bachelor_2021 (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
• Documentary Film - Bachelor - 1920 - 1year (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
• Documentary Film - Bachelor_2020 (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
• Cinematography - Bachelor - 1920 - 1year (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
• Cinematography Bachelor_2021 (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
• Produkce - Bakalářské studium - 2023 (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
• Production - Bachelor-1920-1year (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
• Editing - Bachelor-1920-1year (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
• Editing - Bachelor_2021 (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
• Photography CZ - bachelor_2022 (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
• Photography CZ - Bachelor - 1920-1year (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
• Conservation and restoration of photography – bachelor 2023 (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
• Sound Design - Bachelor_2020 (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
• Animation - Bachelor - 1920-1y (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
• Animation - Bachelor_2020 (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)
• Audiovisual Studies - Bachelor_2020 (required subject with the possibility of repeat registration)