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English V D

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

Course Description

Further development of basic language skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking), acquisition and development of both 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 surroundings.

Study Programmes

undergraduate
Military Leadership and Management - study
(5. semester)

Learning Outcomes

  1. understand a spoken text even if it is not in standard English
  2. understand extended texts on complex topics
  3. analyse a text (identify the point of reference, the purpose of the text, identify the main ideas and infer implicit meanings)
  4. noticing stylistic characteristics of various text types
  5. extract logical arguments from the text and apply them to support one’s own opinion
  6. speak accurately and fluently using common collocations and idiomatic expressions
  7. clearly and articulately present one’s own opinions and ideas in discussions and negotiations
  8. write an argumentative essay showing controlled use of linkers and grammar structures

Forms of Teaching

Lectures

Exercises

Week by Week Schedule

  1. Lectures: Introductory session Exercises: Introductory class
  2. Lectures: LEADERS AND LEADERSHIP (1) (LEADERSHIP STYLES), relative clauses Exercises: LEADERS AND LEADERSHIP (1) (LEADERSHIP STYLES), listening exercises, describing people, using relative clauses
  3. Lectures: LEADERS AND LEADERSHIP (2) (LEADERS IN THE PAST), relative clauses Exercises: LEADERS AND LEADERSHIP (2) (LEADERS IN THE PAST), revision of past tenses, use of relative clauses
  4. Lectures: LEADERS AND LEADERSHIP (3) (MILITARY HISTORY), text analysis (explicit and implicit meaning) Exercises: LEADERS AND LEADERSHIP (3) (MILITARY HISTORY), revision of conditional sentences
  5. Lectures: COMMAND DILEMMAS, finding arguments in a text Exercises: COMMAND DILEMMAS, discussion, expressing one’s opinion
  6. Lectures: DECISION MAKING (1), stylistic analysis Exercises: DECISION MAKING (1), steps in decision making, decision briefing, listening exercies
  7. Lectures: REVISION Exercises: REVISION - group discussion
  8. Lectures: CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT EXAM Exercises: CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT EXAM
  9. Lectures: FEEDBACK ON CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT EXAM AND DISCUSSION Exercises: FEEDBACK ON CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT EXAM AND DISCUSSION
  10. Lectures: WOMEN IN THE ARMY 1, subordinate clauses (clauses of reason, purpose and result) Exercises: WOMEN IN THE ARMY 1,reading strategies for longer texts, use of subordinate clauses
  11. Lectures: WOMEN IN THE ARMY 2, introduction into writing an argumentative essay Exercises: WOMEN IN THE ARMY 2,reading strategies for longer texts, use of subordinate clauses
  12. Lectures: WOMEN IN THE ARMY 3, punctuation in English Exercises: WOMEN IN THE ARMY 3, writing an argumentative essay
  13. Lectures: REVISION Exercises: peer assessment of argumentative essays
  14. Lectures: Project assignment ( writing an argumentative essay) Exercises: CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT EXAM
  15. Lectures: CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT EXAM Exercises: FEEDBACK ON CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT EXAM AND DISCUSSION

Literature

(.), 1. Advanced Military Modules (2006), MORH, Zagreb.,
(.), 2. READER WITH EXERCISES,
(.), 3. Swann, M. (2007): Practical English Usage, Third Edition, Oxford University Press,

For students

General

ID 282179
  Winter semester
2.0 ECTS
L0 English Level
L1 e-Learning
15 Lectures
15 Seminar