SAVREMENI ENGLESKI JEZIK 8

After passing the exam, students will be able to do the following: 1. Understand the core information and recognize specific - explicitly and implicitly given- information in conversations, news, etc. in standard and non-standard English on a variety of general and more specific topics. Furthermore, a student should be able to easily recognize attitude and mood of a speaker, as well as conditions of interaction. 2. Participate in a conversation/debate/presentation in English with a native-like pronunciation and intonation, using an appropriate register, vocabulary, and grammar. 3. Understand the essence of a complex written text, as well as its tone and register, whether it is about general or field-specific topics (morpho-syntax, phonetics and phonology, semantics, and methodology), and recognize its specific - explicitly and implicitly provided facts. 4. Explain/translate semantic fields of a wide grammatical corpus 5. Solve lexical issues, which include analyzing the use of individual words, appropriate collocations, phrases and idioms upon translation of literary and non-literary texts from and into English. 6. Correctly write and structure a dissertation/thesis/article, while using an appropriate academic language style; properly structure an essay on general and academic topics clearly connecting ideas and using appropriate: o register o linguistic/grammatical structure o vocabulary o correct punctuation, and o orthography 7. Identify and/or explain and/or translate grammatical features in specific and general contexts within the fields of word classes, subject-verb agreement, and finite and non-finite nominal, relative and adverbial clauses.