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English III

Data is displayed for the academic year: 2025./2026.

Course Description

Course objectives: further development of four basic language skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking), acquisition and expansion both of general and specific vocabulary, as well as the development of intercultural competence with the aim of preparing students for successful fulfillment of professional duties in international environments. The focus is placed on the use of complex sentence structures and text organization. Students will practice communication in various profession-related communicative situations (a military briefing, a formal meeting, delivering a talk).

Study Programmes

undergraduate
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defence - course
(3. semester)
Group of Courses Armour, Field Artillery, Engineers and Technical Support - course
(3. semester)
Group of Courses Signals, Monitoring and Guidance and Air Defence - course
(3. semester)
Military Leadership and Management - study
(3. semester)

Learning Outcomes

  1. understand a wide range of complex and extended texts and infer implicit meaning in a text
  2. process information from various sources
  3. produce a clear, well structured text showing controlled use of conjunctions and cohesive devices
  4. communicate accurately and fluently about a wide range of general and profession-related topics
  5. paraphrase parts of a text
  6. distinguish various language registers
  7. take part in a formal meeting

Forms of Teaching

Lectures

Exercises

Week by Week Schedule

  1. Lectures: Introductory session Exercises: Introductory class
  2. Lectures: MILITARY PROTOCOL, verbs in subordinate clauses, use of infinitive and gerund Exercises: MILITARY PROTOCOL, verbs in subordinate clauses, use of infinitive and gerund
  3. Lectures: MILITARY BRIEFING 1, types of briefings, language of briefings Exercises: MILITARY BRIEFING (1), note-taking while listening
  4. Lectures: MILITARY BRIEFING 2, press briefing and information briefing Exercises: MILITARY BRIEFING (2), role-play (press briefing)
  5. Lectures: HISTORY OF MILITARY DIPLOMACY, linkers and cohesion devices Exercises: HISTORY OF MILITARY DIPLOMACY, techniques of information gathering while reading,delivering a talk, making generalizations
  6. Lectures: WELCOMING A FOREIGN DELEGATION, the language of formal meetings Exercises: WELCOMING A FOREIGN DELEGATION, phrases, a formal meeting (role-play)
  7. Lectures: CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT EXAM Exercises: CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT EXAM
  8. Lectures: FEEDBACK ON CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT AND DISCUSSION Exercises: FEEDBACK ON CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT AND DISCUSSION
  9. Lectures: MILITARY PEDAGOGY, text analysis, revision of tenses Exercises: MILITARY PEDAGOGY, text analysis, revision of tenses
  10. Lectures: MILITAR PSYCHOLOGY (1), linkers and cohesion devices, organizing a narrative Exercises: MILITAR PSYCHOLOGY (1), linkers and cohesion devices, writing a narrative essay
  11. Lectures: MILITARY PSYCHOLOGY (2), vocabulary acquisition and collocations Exercises: MILITARY PSYCHOLOGY (2), feedback and discussion on narrative essays
  12. Lectures: DEFENSE ECONOMICS 1, text analysis, recognizing implicit meaning Exercises: DEFENSE ECONOMICS 1, text analysis, recognizing implicit meaning, information gathering techniques
  13. Lectures: EKONOMIKA OBRANE 2, analiza teksta, prepoznavanje implicitnog značenja Exercises: DEFENSE ECONOMICS 2, preparing a fact-sheet
  14. Lectures: REVISION Exercises: REVISION
  15. Lectures: CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT EXAM Exercises: Second continuous assessment exam

Literature

(.), 1. Advanced Military Modules (2006), MORH, Zagreb,
(.), 2. Defense Language Institute (2001): Army Topics, Book 1, Texas: DLIELC,
(.), 3. READER with exercises (u pripremi),
(.), 4. Mellor-Clark, S. Baker de Altamirano, Y. (2004): Campaign 2, Oxford: Macmillan Education (Student's Book + Workbook),
(.), 5. Murphy, R. (2012): A self-study reference and practice book for intermediate learners of English, Fourth edition, Cambridge University Press,

For students

General

ID 282176
  Winter semester
2.0 ECTS
L0 English Level
L1 e-Learning
15 Lectures
15 Seminar