Course detail

English Intermediate 1

FAST-BYA5Acad. year: 2011/2012

The B1 (or Threshold) level, and so the BY51 exam, is an INTERMEDIATE LEVEL exam which requires a student to:
-generally understand information about familiar topics and situations, such as those met at work, in school, in free time etc. providing they are expressed in a clear and straightforward manner.
- be able to use English to communicate successfully in most situations encountered when travelling abroad.
- be able to create a simple connected text with a simple context.
- be able to describe experiences and events, ambitions, hopes and plans, and to briefly explain or justify their ideas and statements.
- successfully complete intermediate level grammar exercises.

Language of instruction

Czech

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Social Sciences (SPV)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The student shall during the course of study both in class and online (in moodle) revise and improve their knowledge of and ability to use the key grammar and vocabulary needed to communicate effectively at B1 (intermediate) level, as well as improve their listening and speaking skills. After completing the following course (BYA6) they should be ready to take the BY51 exam successfully.

Prerequisites

Entry level A2+ or B1. Students should be able to use the past and present (including present perfect) tenses to talk about their lives, and some future forms for plans. They should be able to ask questions, give personal information, understand clear English related to familiar subjects. They should also be able to compare things using adjectives, make 1st conditional structures, use countable/uncountable nouns and some modal verbs. They should also be able to manage simple functional transactions in shops, restaurants and while travelling. They should be able to use: the present perfect to express experience, as well as describe long - lasting or temporary situations in their life; modals to express permission and obligation in connection with rules and behaviour; passives as typically used to describe processes, origins and materials; future forms to predict and plan actions in the future; conditionals to speculate about possible future situations and general theoretical ones.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Requirements for successful completion of the subject are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Course curriculum

1. 1A present simple and continuous / food and restaurants
2. 1B past simple and continuous / sport
3. 1B past simple, continuous and perfect / narratives
4. 1C future forms /family
5. 1C personality / reflexive pronouns
6. 2A present perfect / numbers
7. 2A present perfect and past simple/ money
8. 2B present perfect continuous / strong adjectives
9. 2C comparatives and superlatives
10. 2C transport and travel
11. 3A must, have to and should/ manners
12. 3B must, may, might, can’t (deduction) / describing people
13. 3C can, could, be able to/ -ed and –ing adjectives

Test: Moodle

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

This B1 (intermediate) level course focuses on revision of most of the key grammar covered in BYA1 – BYA4. This grammar is tested in the BY51 exam, both directly and in the speaking and writing parts. Students also work on their listening and speaking skills, and build their vocabulary, all of which are important for BY51. However, practice of specific BY51 exam tasks is left until BYA6, and the lessons in BYA5 will be similar in form to those for courses BYA1 - BYA4. If you are satisfied with your level of grammar, and your main interest is in preparing for the BY51 exam, you should probably go to BYA6. BYA5 focuses on the revision of what you need to know at intermediate level, and on increasing accuracy.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig: New English File Intermediate. OUP, 2006.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-P-C-GK Master's

    branch G , 1 year of study, winter semester, recommended course

  • Programme B-K-C-GK Bachelor's

    branch G , 3 year of study, winter semester, recommended course

  • Programme B-P-C-GK Bachelor's

    branch G , 3 year of study, winter semester, recommended course

  • Programme B-P-C-SI Bachelor's

    branch E , 3 year of study, winter semester, recommended course
    branch K , 3 year of study, winter semester, recommended course
    branch M , 3 year of study, winter semester, recommended course
    branch S , 3 year of study, winter semester, recommended course
    branch V , 3 year of study, winter semester, recommended course

  • Programme B-P-C-ST Bachelor's

    branch E , 3 year of study, winter semester, recommended course
    branch K , 3 year of study, winter semester, recommended course
    branch M , 3 year of study, winter semester, recommended course
    branch S , 3 year of study, winter semester, recommended course
    branch V , 3 year of study, winter semester, recommended course

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer