Prerequisites: relevant both general and professional knowledge of English adequate to knowledge of second year students

Aims of the subject: Students get acquainted with the essentials of translations of various styles and functions. Authentic material presented in each seminar will help them to improve their lexis in the following areas: travel and tourism, transport, political, social and culture life. Students get familiar with the basic rules of consecutive interpreting, will practise immediate reactions, estimating relevant and redundant information. By the end of the semester each student presents a file with 12 pieces of news or articles [30 lines] with new phrases, idioms and lexis.

1. Introduction, tasks for semester, needs analysis Ethics of interpreting and translation
2. Artistic translation - comparison; W.Shakespeare (As You Like it)
3. Tourism and Euro Lexicology: synonyms, homophones, homonyms
4. Telecommunications, New words in English
5. Authentic reading; phenomena of modern tourism
6. Language of advertisements and commercials, history
7. Practical impact, authentic listening
8. Czech Made - Czech professional magazines and their styles
9. Foreign companies in Czech Republic- English professional magazines, Business and Tourism
10. English contemporary literature; Roald Dahl: Revolting Rhymes
11. Film
12. Evaluation of the semester and needs analysis
13. Final consolidation

Assessment strategy and method:

active participation
80% attendance
12 texts with vocabulary and phrases


English newspapers and magazines, Internet materials
(Time-Life, Development,Central European Economic Review...)
Audio cassettes (The Listening File, Speaking Effectively)
Czech magazines on tourism COT
Video cassettes
Levy J.: Historie českého překladu
Sloukova G.: Úvod do teorie tlumočení
Knittlova H.: Úvod do teorie překladu
Various dictionaries on Idioms