Course detail

English - Beginner Level

FA-BA1Acad. year: 2016/2017

Grammar: present simple (2), wh-questions, present simple or continuous, past simple, comparative and superlative adjectives, countable and uncountable nouns, some/any, a lot of/many/much, future forms.
General Vocabulary: personal information file, professional lifestyles, jobs, exchanging information, describing things and persons, word formation, writing an email, interview, filling a form, storytelling, time expressions, dicussions, expressing feelings, culture in the city.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

1

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. arch. Jan Kratochvíl

Department

Faculty of Architecture (FA)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Target level according to CEFR is A2-.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of grammar rules and the basic vocabulary at the pre-intermediate level.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Lessons of a foreign language

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Course-unit Credit based on student´s presence and activity during lessons

Course curriculum

1. 1A/D Word order in question, relative clauses, classroom languaguage
2. 1B Present simple,family, personality adjectives
3. 1C Present continuous, the body, prepositions of place
4. 2A Past simple regular and irregular, holidays
5. 2B Past continuous, preposition of time and place
6. 2C Question with and without auxiliary, music
7. 3A Going to, present continuous (arrangements), look after, for
8. 3B/C Will, won´t p. 33, verbs
9. 3D Review of tenses, verbs + preposition
10. 4A Present perfect, ever/never, Clothes
11. 4B Present perfect , yet, already, just, verb phrases
12. 4C/D Comperatives, time expressions, Superlatives, opposite adjectives, directions
13. Revision, (test)

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Students will command the basic vocabulary from general English, the basic grammar rules, they will be able to communicate in everyday life situations, to write both formal and informal letter, fill in a form.

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

1 semester, 2 lessons a week

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

: C.Oxenden, Ch. Latham-Koenig: New English File Pre-intermediate, Oxford University Press 2009 (EN)

Recommended reading

aktuální literatura a texty související s tématem (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme ARCHURB Bachelor's

    branch ARCH , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Language exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. arch. Jan Kratochvíl

Syllabus

Language study introduction, pronunciation, L12. L 1, 23. L 24. L 35. L 3, 46. L 47. Revision 8. L 59. L 5, 610. L 611. L 712. L7, revision 13. Test.