Subject: History of Literature II (American Literature)
Contents: /
  1. Literature of Colonial America: poetry of Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor and Michael Wigglesworth; historians William Bradford, John Winthrop and Cotton Mather; diaries, journals and personal narratives; sermons
  2. Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin and J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur – representatives of the 18th century in American literature
  3. American Renaissance – the Romantic period in American literature .Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper – literature of the NewRepublic. Transcendentalism -- Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
  4. The poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson
  5. Edgar Allan Poe –a poet, an author of short stories and a literary critic
  6. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville – short story writers and novelists
  7. Realism in American literature. Mark Twain as its chief representative
  8. Naturalism – Stephen Crane, Jack London and Frank Norris

Bibliography: / PRIMARY
Norton Anthology of American Literature pod red. Niny Baym. New York: W.W. Norton&Company, 1998.
SECONDARY
1. Columbia Literary History of the United States pod red. Emory Elliott. New York: ColumbiaUniversity Press, 1988.
2. A New Literary History of America. pod red. Greil Marcus, Werner Sollors. Cambridge, Mass.HarvardUniversity Press, 2009.
Subject: History of Literature I (British Literature)
Contents: / The aim of this subject is to introduce historical background to British Literature from its very beginning to the Age of Enlightenment.
  1. Anglo – Saxon and Anglo–Norman Period (1066-1340)
  2. Geoffrey Chaucer, late medieval literature (1340-1400).
  3. The beginning of Renaissance
  4. Elizabethan and Jacobean eras
  5. Elizabethan Theatre and Drama
  6. Shakespeare and his works
  7. Metaphysical poets
  8. Johan Milton and his era
  9. Puritan literature
  10. The Restoration: drama
  11. The Restoration: poetry and prose
  12. 18th century literature
  13. The beginnings of a novel
  14. Sentimentalism in poetry and prose

Bibliography: / Alexander, M., A History of English Literature. Houndmills, 2007
Carter, R.J., ed. The Penguin Guide to Literature in English, Penguin, 2001.
Barnard, R., A Short History of English Literature. Oxford, 1994
Drabble, M., red. The Consise Oxford Comanion to English Literature. Oxford, 2007.
Fordonski, K., red. History of English Literature: vol. 1-2. Poznań: 2005
Mazur , Z and T. Bela, ed., The College Anthology of English Literature. Kraków, 2004.
Rogers, P., The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature. Oxford, 2001.
Sikorska, L., An Outline History of English Literature, Oxford, 2002
Sikorska, L., and J. Fabiszak, An Anthology of English Literature—From Beowulf to John Milton, Poznan, 1998
Subject: Descriptive grammar - syntax
Contents: / 1. Cognitive vs. linguistic/ grammatical category
2. Simple sentence structure – syntactic and semantic categories, the notion of distribution describing the category of an element
— verb phrase– verbal categories: tense, mood, modality, group structure
— noun phrase– nominal categories: number, gender
— adjectival phrase — comparative and superlative forms of adjectives
—adverbial phrase—prepositional phrase
3. Types of verb complement
Bibliography: / PRIMARY
Langacker. R.W. (2008) Cognitive Grammar: A basic introduction.OxfordUniversity Press
Quirk R., Greenbaum S., Leech G., Svartvik J. (2002) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. Longman
SECONDARY
Fromkin, V and Rodman, R. (2002) An Introduction to Language. HarcourtBraceCollege Publishers.
Yule, G. (2004) The Study of Language. An Introduction. CambridgeUniversity Press
Subject: Descriptive grammar – Phonetics and phonology
Contents /
  1. Introduction – basic terms
  2. Articulation and speech organs, manner of articulation
  3. Basic types of English sounds
  4. Phonetic transcription
  5. Word stress and sentence stress, assimilation, elision, vowel reduction, weak forms.
  6. Classification of sounds
  7. English vowels vs. cardinal vowels
  8. English consonants
  9. Allophones
  10. Syllable structure, syllabic consonants
  11. Rhythm and intonation

Bibliography / PRIMARY
Roach P., (2000) English Phonetics and Phonology, CambridgeUniversity Press..
Sobkowiak W., (1995) English Phonetics for Poles, Bene-Nati
materiały autorskie we współpracy z prof. nadzw. Kamilą Turewicz, w oparciu o Ronald W. Langacker. R.W. (2008) Cognitive Grammar: A basic introduction.OxfordUniversity Press
Quirk R., Greenbaum S., Leech G., Svartvik J. (2002) A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. Longman
SECONDARY
Fromkin, V and Rodman, R. (2002) An Introduction to Language. HarcourtBraceCollege Publishers.
Gimson A.C., (1994) Gimson’s Pronunciation of English, Edward Arnold.
Ladefoged, P., (1993) A Course in Phonetics, Philadelphia: Harcourt Brace Yovanovich.
Wells, J. C., (2000), Pronunciation Dictionary, Longman.
Yule, G. (2004) The Study of Language. An Introduction. CambridgeUniversity Press
Subject: History and Culture of English Speaking Countries
Contents / 1 History and the past as elements of contemporary culture
2 Bristish Monarchy
3 Political life in Great Britain and the USA
4 Geoghraphy and identity
5 Religions
6 Media and their influence on the society of 21st century
7 International relations
8 Legal system of Great Britain and the USA
Bibliography / PRIMARY
O’Driscoll James, Britain, (Oxford: OUP, 1995)
Falk, Randee, Spotlight on the USA, (Oxford: OUP, 1993)
SECONDARY
Bhabha, Homi, The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 1994).
Cashmore, Ellis, Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations [1984] (London: Routledge, 1996)
Subject: History of English Language
Contents: / 1 The origins of English language
2 Old English – from the mid-5th century to the mid-11th century
3 Middle English – from the late 11th to the late 15th century
4 Early Modern English – from the late 15th to the late 17th century
5 Modern English – from the late 17th century to the present
6 Phonological changes, Great Vowel Shift
7 Grammatical changes , Evolution of English pronouns
8 Language varieties
Bibliography /

PRIMARY

1. Baugh A. C., Cable T. A history of the English language. Fifth edition. London, New York: Routledge. 2002
2. Fisiak J. A short grammar of Middle English. Part 1. Orthography, phonology and morphology.Wydanie 7. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. 1996
3. Nagucka R. A Late Middle English reader. Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo
Naukowe. 1977
4. Reszkiewicz A. A diachronic grammar of Old English. Wydanie 2. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. 1996
SECONDARY
1. Reszkiewicz A. Synchronic essentials of Old English. Wydanie 3. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. 1998
2. Wełna J. A brief outline of the history of English. ditio ditio. Warszawa:
Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. 2003
Subject: Introduction to linguistics
Contents /
  1. The origins of language
  2. Development of written language
  3. Human language and its properties
  4. history of linguistic – chosen aspects
  5. Language analysis. Grammar and levels of grammatical description
  6. Phonetics – sounds, speech
  7. Phonology – phonemes and allophones, syllable
  8. Morphology – word building
  9. Syntax – traditional grammar and prescriptive approach, structural grammar, generative-transformational grammar andcognitive grammar.
  10. Semantics, lexical relations
  11. Pragmatics and discourse

Bibliography / PRIMARY
Yule, G. (2004) The Study of Language. An Introduction. CambridgeUniversity Press
SECONDARY
Fromkin, V and Rodman, R. (2002) An Introduction to Language. HarcourtBraceCollege Publishers
Crystal D. (1995) The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language, CambridgeUniversity Press
Subject: Introduction to literary analysis
Contents: /
  1. Classical theory of literature – Platon, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus
  2. Philip Sydney An Apology for Poetry
  3. Edmund Burke and William Wordsworth (language really spoken by men, the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, emotion recollected in tranquility)
  4. Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry
  5. John Keats
  6. Thomas Stearns Elliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent
  7. Formalism
  8. Structuralism
  9. R. Wellek and A. Warren Theory of Literature
  10. Attempts to define literature
  11. An issue of literary canon, Dennis Walder Literature in the Modern World

Bibliography: / PRIMARY:
Baldick, CH, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, OUP, 1990
Barry, P, Beginning Theory. An Introduction to Literary and Cultural theory, Manchester University Press, 2002
Culler, J. Literary Theory. A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 1997)
SECONDARY:
Eagleton, T. Literary Theory. AN Introduction, Blackwell Publishers, 1997
Harland, R., Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes. AN Introductory History, Macmillan Press, 1999.
Subject: Monographic lecture (literature)
Contents: / E. A. Poe: "The Fall of the House of Usher"
N. Hawthorne: "Young Goodman Brown"
H. Melville: "Billy Budd"
M. Twain: " The Notorious Jumping Frog"
H. James: "Daisy Miller"
E. Hemingway: "Hills Like White Elephants"
W. Faulkner: "A Rose for Emily"
L.M. Silko: "Lullaby:
Bibliography: / PRIMARY
Norton Anthology of American Literature pod red. Niny Baym. New York: W.W. Norton&Company, 1998.
SECONDARY
1. Columbia Literary History of the United States pod red. Emory Elliott. New York: ColumbiaUniversity Press, 1988.
2. A New Literary History of America. pod red. Greil Marcus, Werner Sollors. Cambridge, Mass.HarvardUniversity Press, 2009
Subject: Practical English 1 year Winter semester
Contents / Integrated skills
Daily routine, work and leisure
Food and restaurants.
Sport
Family, personality
Money
Transport and travel
Modern manners
Education
Health and lifestyle
Houses
Friendship
Work
Shopping
Cinema
Television
Reading books
Practical grammar
Articles
Nouns; compound nous, kinds and function, gender, plurals, countable and uncountable nouns
Adjectives; kinds of adjectives, comparison, constructions with comparison, adjectives with infinitives
Adverbs; kinds of adverbs, form and use, formation of adverbs, comparative and superlative forms of adverbs, position
Possessives, personal and reflexive pronouns
Relative pronouns and clauses; defining relative clauses, non-defining relative clauses, cleft sentences
Prepositions; time and date, travel and movement, place, prepositions used with adjectives and participles
Verbs and tenses
Classes of verbs, auxiliary verbs, modal verbs
Tenses;
present simple, present continuous
present perfect, present perfect continuous
past simple, past continuous
past perfect
future simple
to be going to
Phonetics
Vowels: short and long
Consonants
Diphthongs
Word stress
Sentence stress
Phonetic transcription
Bibliography / PRIMARY
Baker, A. Ship or sheep, Cambridge, 1992
Graver, B. D. Advanced English Grammar
Intermediate communication games. [Cz. 1], A collection of games and activities for low to mid-intermediate students of English. - Wyd. [4]. - Edinburgh Gate ; Harlow : Longman, 1996.
Oxeden, Clive, Latham-Koenig, Christina. 2006. NewEnglish File : intermediate: student's book.- Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.
Roach, Peter. 2000. English phonetic and phonology : a practical course . - 3 ed. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
Sobkowiak, Włodzimierz. 2004 English phonetics for Poles : a resource book for learners and teachers /. - Wyd. 3. - Poznań : Wydaw. Poznańskie.
Vince, Michael. 1998. Intermediate language practice. - Oxford : Macmillan Heinemann.
SECONDARY
Alexander, L.G. 2006. Longman English grammar practice for intermediate students - 19th impression. - New York : Longman.
Berestowska, Anna. Sumera, Adam. 2000. English in Puzzles - Warszawa ; Łódź : Wydaw. Naukowe PWN.
Bradford, B. Intonation in context, Cambridge, 1994
Coe, Norman. 1997. Grammar Spectrum. [Cz. 3], Intermediate with answers;. - Wyd. [3]. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press.
Eastwood, John. 1999. Oxford practice grammar : with answers - [2nd ed.]. - Oxford [etc.]: Oxford University Press
Evans, Virginia. 2009. Successful writing : intermediate. - 2nd impression. - Newbury : Express Publishing.
Gołębiowska, Lucyna. 2000. A book czy the book : o przedimkach w języku angielskim. - Warszawa : "Prószyński i S-ka".
Kavka, Stanislav J. 1994. Modern English phonemics. - Łódź : Wydawnictwo Akademii Humanistyczno-Ekonomicznej, 2009.
Krzeszowski, Tomasz P. 1992. Gramatyka angielska dla Polaków - [Wyd. 2]. - Warszawa : Wydaw. Naukowe PWN.
Ladefoged, Peter. 1993. A Course in Phonetics . - [3th ed.]. - Fort Worth etc : Harcourt Brace College Publishers.
Laver, John. Principles of phonetics - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
Subject: Practical English 1 year Spring semester
Contents / Integrated skills
Personality
Illness and treatment
Clothes and fashion
Air travel
Crime and punishment
Feelings
Music
The media
Town and city
Science
Business and advertising
Practical grammar
Tenses:
Past perfect continuous
Future perfect
Future continuous
Future perfect continuous
Passive Voice
Conditional sentences – type 1 and 2
Reported Speech
Conditional sentences – type 3
Question tags
Indirect questions
Bibliography / PRIMARY
Alexander L. G., Longman Advanced Grammar.
Graver, B. D. Advanced English Grammar
Oxeden, Clive, Latham-Koenig, Christiana, 2008 English File : upper-intermediate : student's book - Oxford : OxfordUniversity Press.
Swan, Michael. 2001. Practical English Usage, Oxford
Thomson, A. J; Martinet, A.V. 1992. A Practical English Grammar, Oxford Univeristy Press.
Thomson, A. J; Martinet, A.V. 1992. A Practical English Grammar, Exercises 1, Oxford Univeristy Press.
Thomson, A. J; Martinet, A.V. 1992. A Practical English Grammar, Exercises 2, Oxford Univeristy Press.
Vince, Michael. 1998. Intermediate language practice. - Oxford : Macmillan Heinemann.
SECONDARY
Alexander, L.G. 2006. Longman English grammar practice for intermediate students - 19th impression. - New York : Longman.
Berestowska, Anna. Sumera, Adam. 2000. English in Puzzles - Warszawa ; Łódź : Wydaw. Naukowe PWN.
Eastwood, John. 1999. Oxford practice grammar : with answers - [2nd ed.]. - Oxford [etc.]: Oxford University Press
Evans, Virginia. 2009. Successful writing : intermediate. - 2nd impression. - Newbury : Express Publishing.
Krzeszowski, Tomasz P. 1992. Gramatyka angielska dla Polaków - [Wyd. 2]. - Warszawa : Wydaw. Naukowe PWN.
Subject: Practical English 2 year Winter semester
Contents / Speaking
1. Death
Talking about death, funerals, home burials
2. Nudity
Wearing no clothes is natural. Why do people get so upset about this?
3. Politically incorrect jokes
Is it OK to joke about disabled people, religion, deatb?
4. Taboo conversation topics
Questions you couldn't ask. For example: How much do you weigh /earn?
5. lt should be banned!
Bullfighting, human cloning, boxing, the Ku Klux Klan - ban them all!
6. Not my type
Bad breath, bites his nails, thin legs - what do you avoid in a partner?
7. Sex for sale
Prostitution - can we stop it? Should we stop it?
8. Swearing
Is it OK to swear? What swear words do/could you use?
9. Torture
Does torture happen in your country? Is torture always wrong?
10. Sexual harassment
What's wrong with telling a colleague she has nice legs?
11. Bribery and corruption
Rewards, gifts, bribes, perks- is there any difference?
12. Designer babies
Blonde hair, blue eyes - would yow like to design your children?
13. Children who kill
When a child kills someone, who is responsible - the child, the parents, society?
14. Gays and jobs
Does it matter that a doctor, teacher, or the Prime Minister is gay?
15. Animal rights
We eat them, we do experiments on them, we keep them as pets. Do you object?
16. Marriage - for better or for worse
What's the point of marriage these days?
What's wrong with divorce?
17. Nobody needs a gun
Gun massacres in schools.
Why do people carry guns?
'Would you ever use a gun?
18. The sale of human organs
Would you let doctors remove your organs?
What about people who sell their organs?
19. AIDS
What do you know about AIDS? Would you treat a friend differently if (s)he he had HIV?
20. Telling lies
How honest are you?
Practical grammar
Revision of Tenses;
present simple, present continuous
present perfect, present perfect continuous
past simple, past continuous
past perfect, past perfect continuous
future simple, future continuous
future perfect simple, future perfect continuous
Passive Voice – prepositions with passive verbs, infinitive constructions after passive verbs
Verb patterns with –ing forms, infinitives and “that” clauses
Modal verbs
Reading / Vocabulary
Modern technologies
Crime and punishment
Sport and healthy lifestyle
Politics
Media
Advertising
Mystery
Feelings and beliefs
Religion
Literature
History
Fame
Bibliography / PRIMARY
Graver, B. D. 1991. Advanced English Practice, OxfordUniversity Press.
MacAndrew Richard, Martinez Ron, Taboos and Issues, Thomson, Heinle.
Swan, Michael. 2009. Practical English usage - 3rd ed. - Oxford : Oxford University Press.
Thomson, A. J; Martinet, A.V. 1992. A Practical English Grammar, Oxford Univeristy Press.
Thomson, A. J; Martinet, A.V. 1992. A Practical English Grammar, Exercises 1, Oxford Univeristy Press.
Thomson, A. J; Martinet, A.V. 1992. A Practical English Grammar, Exercises 2, Oxford Univeristy Press.
SECONDARY
Alexander, L.G. 2006. Longman English grammar practice for intermediate students - 19th impression. - New York : Longman.
Biber, Douglas [et al.]; forew. by Randolph Quirk. 2000. Longman grammar of spoken and written English - 3rd impr. - Edinburgh Gate ; Harlow : Pearson Education Limited.
Carter, Ronald, McCarthy, Michael. 2006- Cambridge grammar of English : a comprehensive guide spoken and written English grammar and usage. Cambridge [etc] : Cambridge University Press.
Chalker, Sylvia. 1999 A student`s English grammar workbook / - [7th ed.]. - Edinburgh Gate ; Harlow : Longman.
Downing, Angela and Locke, Philip 1992. A university course in English grammar - New York : Prentice Hall.
Evans, Virginia. 2009. Successful writing : upper-intermediate - 4th impression. - Newbury : Express Publishing.
Greenbaum, Sidney, Quirk, Randolph1999. A student`s grammar of the English language- [13th impr.]. - Edinburgh Gate ; Harlow : Longman.
Greenbaum, Sidney. 1996.The Oxford English grammar. - New York : Oxford University Press.
Huddleston, Rodney. 2005. English grammar : an outline . - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
Huddleston. Rodney, Pullum, Geoffrey K. 2002. The Cambridge grammar of the English language. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
Ladousse, Gilian Porter. 2000. Role Play. - [12. ed.]. - Oxford : Oxford University Press.
Leech, Geoffrey, Svartvik, Jan. 1994. A communicative grammar of English - 2nd. ed. - London ; New York : Longman
Murphy Raymond. 1994. English Grammar in Use : A self-study Reference And Practice Book For Intermediate Students. - 2nd. ed. - New York : Cambridge University Press.
Quirk, Randolph [et al.]. 2005. A comprehensive grammar of the English language; index by David Crystal. - [20th impr.]. - London ; New York : Longman.
Robinson, Carole, Parker, Helen. 1991. Themes for listening and speaking. - 5th impression. - Oxford : Oxford University Press.
FCE exams
Countdown : to First Certificate : student's book / Michael Duckworth, Kathy Gude. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999.
FCE use of English 1 : student's book / Virginia Evans. - 2nd impression. - Newbury : Express Publishing, 2009.
FCE use of English 1 / Virginia Evans. - Newbury : Express Publishing, 2000.
FCE use of English 2 : student's book / Virginia Evans. - 2nd impression. - Newbury : Express Publishing, 2009.
FCE use of English 2 / Virginia Evans. - Newbury : Express Publishing, 2001.
First Certificate gold : coursebook / Richard Acklam, Sally Burgess. - Harlow : Longman, 1998.
First Certificate gold : coursebook / Richard Acklam, Sally Burgess. - Harlow : Longman, 1998.
First Certificate gold : coursebook / Richard Acklam, Sally Burgess. - New Edition. - Harlow : Longman, 2000.
First Certificate gold with key : exam maximiser / Sally Burgess, Richard Acklam. - Harlow : Longman, 1996.
First Certificate gold with key : exam maximiser / Sally Burgess, Richard Acklam. - Polish Edition. - Harlow : Longman, 2000.
First Certificate practice tests plus : with key / N. Kenny, L. Luque-Mortimer. - Harlow : Pearson Education Limited, 2000.
First Certificate star : student's book / Luke Prodromou. - Oxford : Macmillan Heinemann English Language Teaching, 1998.
Focus on First Certificate : practice tests with guidance for the revised exam / Sue O'Connel. - Harlow : Longman, 1999.
New First Certificate gold : coursebook / Jacky Newbrook, Judith Wilson, Richard Acklam. - Harlow : Longman, 2004.