English

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The student should be able 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

Entry level B1. Students should be able to use the past and present (including present perfect) tenses to talk about their lives, and some future forms to discuss 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.

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Exercises promote the practical mastery of subject presented in lectures or assigned for individual study with the active participation of students.

The BY51 exam is conducted orally with pairs of students and lasts up to 25 minutes. It may be shorter for students who have clearly not yet reached the correct level.
The exam tests speaking skills such as interaction, pronunciation and the ability to construct connected sentences to give information or opinions on a certain topic. It also tests listening and reading ability, as well as grammar and vocabulary.


Classification scale
Grade Point assessment (in %) Numerical classification Verbal assessment
A 100 - 90 1 excellent
B 89 - 80 1,5 very good
C 79 - 70 2 good
D 69 - 60 2,5 satisfactory
E 59 - 50 3 sufficient
F 49 - 0 4 unsatisfactory

- There are no lectures for this subject.

- The lessons will consist of grammar presentations/revision and exercises, listening practice and most importantly, speaking activities to practice grammar, activate vocabulary and build fluency. The emphasis is on developing the general ability of students to communicate effectively using the language they have.

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The subject Foreign Language - English to Pre-Intermediate Level aims to bring students’ knowledge of English up to intermediate level CEF B1 level.

The homework will be set and monitored within the MOODLE e-learning system, the contents of which are continuously updated and supplemented.
Tuition of the subject takes place in accordance with the Directive of the Rector No. 34/2005 and the instruction of the Dean No. 13/2006 on the tuition of languages.

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Zkouška BY01 a předměty BYA1 -4 jsou založeny na učebnicích New English File Elementary od autorů Clive Oxenden a Christina Latham-Koenig, Oxford, 2004 a New English File Pre-Intermediate od autorů Clive Oxenden a Christina Latham-Koenig, Oxford, 2005. (CS)

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