Course detail

Preparatory Course for CFC.

FEKT-CJA1Acad. year: 2012/2013

This is a course for more advanced students which prepares them for the FCE exam and the state exam in English. The course focuses on life in Britain and the USA using original audio and video material, practising conversation, understanding correspondence and writing short compositions, etc. Students will receive 8 credits in English after passing the exam (to be able to sit for the exam students have to get their credits for both the winter and summer semesters).The other possibility is to pass the FCE exam at the British Council or to get credits for the state exam in English passed at the State Language School. Note: It is a two-semester course, it includes 4 lessons a week.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

8

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. PhDr. Milena Krhutová, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Foreign Languages (UJAZ)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will learn how to converse more fluently, write short compositions, CVs and letters, and be able to read texts and understand special inferences from them. Finally, students learn to appreciate inferences from recordings too.

Prerequisites

The subject knowledge on the secondary school level is required.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Students are assessed according to their activities in seminars during semesters and according to the results of the final tests.

Course curriculum

1. Revision of tenses, meaning from context
2. Making comparisons, word formation
3. "like, as", modifiers, intensifiers
4. Countable and uncountable nouns, multiple choice questions
5. Indirect speech, Reporting verbs
6. Certainty and possibility, Passives
7. Relative clauses, Conditionals, Technology
8. Gerunds and infinitives, Phrasal verbs
9. Present and past habit, participle clauses, word formation
10. Obligation, necessity, permission. Phrasal verbs
11. Ability and possibility. Expressions with "mind"
12. "So, such, too, enough", Multiple maching
13. Semestrální test

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

This course helps the students to pass the First Cambridge Certificate in English in all four areas: reading, writing,listening and speaking. Students also gain knowledge on life in Britain and other English-speaking countries.

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

The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

J.and L. Soars: Headway Upper-Intermediate, , 0
Robert O Neill: Success at First Cambridge Certificate, , 0
Robert O´Neill: New Success at First Cambridge Certificate, Oxford University Press, 1997

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme EECC Bc. Bachelor's

    branch BC-MET , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective general
    branch BC-TLI , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective general
    branch BC-SEE , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective general
    branch BC-EST , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective general
    branch BC-AMT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective general

Type of course unit

 

Language exercise

52 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. PhDr. Milena Krhutová, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Unit1: say,tell,talk or speak?; questions with who;stop doing vs.stop to do; composition(argument 1);word building (verb to noun)
Unit2: travel,journey,voyage or trip?; may, should,must and will; verb and noun combinations:give and take; informal letter 1
Unit3: phrasal verbs; word bulding (noun to adjective/adverb); requests and intentions; formal letter
Unit1/2/3: revision
Unit4: small words with big meanings:few,little etc.;phrasal verbs with take,look and run; review of verb forms
Unit5: ways of asking for permission; phrasal verbs; structure and language for a report
Unit6: I wish and If only; describing films; word combinations(compond nouns); complaining
Unit4/5/6: revision
Unit7: conditionals; fault,mistake,error,defect,blame; still,yet or already?; expressing an opinion
Unit8: three types of past action; so or such?; ache or pain?; used to do or be used to doing?; adjective order
Unit9: although and despite; phrasal verbs; let or make?; adjectives describing character; writing article 1
Unit7/8/9: revision
Unit10: comparisons; describing feelings; phrasal verbs; informal letter 2
Unit11: question structures; gerund or infinitive; infinitive with or without to; use of tenses to tell a story
Unit12: have something done; lie or lay?; verb and noun combinations: make and do; planning a letter of application
Unit10/11/12: revision
Unit13: leaving out relative pronouns; words with different meanings; phrasal verbs; the passive; forming opposites with prefixes
Unit14: should have, must have or might have?; writing transactional letter; asking for information
Unit15: suggest doing or suggest that...should do; cost,value,expense,price or worth; presenting the results of a survey/writing report; further forms of the future; four types of infinitive
Unit13/14/15: revision
Unit16: talking about impressions and facts; words with similar meanings; positive and negative advice
Unit17: could or managed to?; two meanings of must; discussing different points of view; modals
Unit18: in case and if; phrasal verbs with make; if or whether?; had better/had better not; organizing information
Unit19: between or among?; prefixes; use of link words and time expressions for a sequence of events/writing story
Unit20: review of phrasal verbs; describing a city or town
Unit16/17/18/19/20: general revision