Zagadnienia Na Egz Lic 3
Zagadnienia Na Egz Lic 3
Zagadnienia Na Egz Lic 3
ZESTAW I
Gramatyka opisowa (I)
1. Articulatory, acoustic, and auditory phonetics: Subject matter and practical applications
2. The production of speech: The articulators of the supraglottal vocal tract
3. Description of speech sounds: Consonants (obstruents and sonorants)
4. Consonants of English (British and American model)
5. Description of speech sounds: Vowels and diphthongs
6. Vowels of English (British and American model)
7. Phoneme: Definitions and functions
8. Types of allophonic processes of English
9. Suprasegmental features of speech: syllable, stress, intonation
10. Fast speech processes
Gramatyka opisowa II (skadnia i morfologia)
1. Define the term morpheme and give examples of derivational and inflectional
morphemes.
2. Analyse in the form of the diagram the internal composition of: incompatibilities
3. Discuss three major types of subordinate clauses and provide your own examples.
4. Define the notion subject of the clause.
5. Discuss various types of irregular plural formation in English nouns.
6. Discuss seven basic types of lexical verbs in English and provide your own examples.
7. How to distinguish di-transitive verbs from complex-transitive verbs?
8. How to distinguish mono-transitive phrasal verbs from mono-transitive prepositional
verbs?
9. What is the distinction between the rules of the base (Phrase Structure Rules) and
Transformations in the generative model of grammar?
10. Define the notion of the principle and the parameter of UG; provide relevant
examples.
Gramatyka kontrastywna
1. Types of language universals.
2. Types of language transfer.
3. Word order in Polish and English.
4. Tertium comparationis.
5. Compare the Polish and English vowel and consonant systems.
6. Inflection and derivation in English and Polish.
7. Types of semantic change.
8. Terms of address in Polish and English; T/V distinction.
9. Linguistic sexism in Polish and English.
10. Genetic, typological, areal classification of languages.
Wstp do jzykoznawstwa
1. Properties of human language
2. Levels of linguistic description of language
3. Origins of human language
4. Causes of language change
5. Language transfer and language acquisition
6. Linguistic relativity
7. Language as a social phenomenon
8. Pidgins and creoles
9. Linguistic borrowing
10. Typology of non-verbal communication
Historia jzyka angielskiego
1. The Indo-European family of languages
2. First Germanic Consonant Shift (Grimm's Law)
3. Phonological tendencies in the history of English language
4. The development of the English nominal system
5. The development of the English verbal system
6. The development of the English pronominal system
7. Old English dialects origins and distribution
8. The Great Vowel Shift
9. Scandinavian influences in the history of English
10. French influences in the history of English
Dydaktyka jzyka angielskiego
1. Discuss some differences among foreign language learners.
2. Discuss the major guidelines for the learner-centered approach.
3. Eclectic teaching vs. teaching by means of using one method. Discuss advantages and
disadvantages of either way.
4. Evaluate one of the theories of first language acquisition on the basis of what we
know about the process today.
5. Humanistic psychology and its influence on the theory and practice of language
teaching.
6. What is communicative competence? Can we teach it?
7. Input and interaction. How do they relate to language learning/teaching?
8. Discuss the concept of learner language (interlanguage) and its significance for
language teachers.
9. Strategy-based instruction in the foreign language classroom.
10. Keeping up to date as an EFL Professional.
ZEESTAW II
Historia literatury angielskiej
1. Different forms of drama in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
2. Great heroes in medieval literature and Renaissance drama.
3. Representation of love in romantic comedies, sonnets and metaphysical poetry.
4. Representation of nature in Renaissance, Augustan and romantic literature
5. Novelistic genres in the 18th century
6. Representation of reality in Victorian and modernist fiction.
7. Colonialism and postcolonialism in British literature from the Renaissance until now.
8. Victorian world and values in poetry and fiction of the period.
9. Representation of post-war reality in poetry and drama of the twentieth century.
10. Compare and contrast modernist and postmodernist narrative techniques.
Historia literatury amerykaoskiej
1. Literature of the colonial period: general characteristics; Puritan literature (major writers,
genres and themes, impact on American literature).
2. Ideas of the Enlightenment in texts by Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards.
3. The literature of the early Republic (poetry and the novel): authors, dominant genres and
themes, general characteristics.
4. Masters and masterpieces of American Romanticism.
5. Transcendentalism as the epitome of American Romanticism: characteristics; major
writers and works; influence.
6. American realism and naturalism: major characteristics, writers, works.
7. Modernist novel and drama: authors, themes and experiments.
8. Modernism in American poetry: from Imagism to e.e. cummings.
9. Postmodernism and its literary varieties in the U.S. (prose, poetry, drama).
10. American literature and ethnicity: from Frederick Douglass to Louise Erdrich.
Wstp do literaturoznawstwa
1. Discuss the concept of fallacy in literary studies.
2. Explain the terms hamartia, hubris, catharsis.
3. Define iamb and iambic pentameter.
4. Explain foreshadowing and frame narrative.
5. Explain the notion of suspension of disbelief.
6. Discuss the concept of dramatic structure.
7. Discuss the concept of objective correlative.
8. Explain the terms blank verse and free verse.
9. Discuss the general idea of the epic.
10. Discuss the general idea(s) of deconstruction.
Wiedza o krajach angielskiego obszaru jzykowego
1. Discuss the concept of British constitution.
2. Discuss the process of devolution in the present-day UK.
3. Describe British daily press.
4. Describe the structure and role of the Church of England in the United Kingdom.
5. What is the political division of the British Isles?
6. Compare the position, influence and powers of the American President and the British
Prime Minister.
7. Describe the system of checks and balances as it functions in the United States.
8. Describe different types of institutions of higher education in the United States.
9. What is the position of religion in the U.S. state and society?
10. Discuss the U.S. territorial expansion in history.