Course detail
English for Bachelors - Intermediate 1
FEKT-XAN3Acad. year: 2017/2018
- a standard course for intermediate students focused on both general and technical English
- it includes a grammar section with communicative tasks highlighting new grammar rules
- it covers reading, listening, speaking and writing
- it extents current vocabulary
- it develops grammar knowledge
- it includes work with technical texts putting emphasis on language
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
- use a specific and general vocabulary (job/career, business, character traits, graph description, food, leisure time)
- apply grammar rules to common situations (present tenses, past tenses, the present perfect tense, the future tense, making questions, making comparatives and superlatives)
- communicate fluently and effectively in different contexts with certain error tolerance (job/career, travelling, business, sports, hobbies, social situations) and express his/her opinion, agreement, disagreement
- read technical and general articles when using basic reading techniques (skimming, scanning, selection of relevant information, accurate comprehension)
- understand English instructions and classes taught in English, and take notes; understand natural spoken English in a certain context
- write a formal letter or an informal e-mail, fill in an application form, describe a person and a place
Prerequisites
- use a basic general vocabulary (job/work, leisure time, food, the environment, graphs, everyday use objects)
- apply grammar rules to common situations (making questions, the present tense, the past tense, the future tense, the present perfect tense, modal verbs, conditionals, passive voice)
- speak clearly in a given context with error tolerance
- read and understand easier general and technical texts
- understand classes taught in English and easier spoken English in given contexts
- write formal and informal texts with certain error tolerance
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Final written exam (60 points), it contains listening and reading a technical text
Course curriculum
2.Reading: National branding. Functions: introductions and greetings, welcoming a visitor.
3.Past Simple and Pres. Perfect Simple review, used to + infinitive, subject and object questions. Vocab: work file, dictionary skills.
4.Reading: company and job profile. Functions: answering the phone, making and changing appointments. Pronunciation: /s/, /z/. Saying dates.
5.Comparative and superlative adjectives, relative clauses. Vocab: adjectives, personal attitudes and qualities. Techn. text: From dumb pipes to smart sensors
6.Reading: Past, present and future languages. Functions: giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing, participating in a meeting or discussion. Pronunciation: sounding polite
7.Present and past trends: Pres. Continuous and Past Simple, adjectives and adverbs. Vocab: food file, word groups.
8.Reading: ethical consumerism. Functions: advice and suggestions. Pronunciation: /š/, /č/ Techn. text: Data with a human touch
9.Passives: Pres. Simple, Pres. Continuous, Past Simple, Pres. Perfect Simple, Will future. Vocab: leisure and fitness activities, word combinations
10.Reading: Fit to work. Functions: leaving recorded messages, using mobile phones. Pronunciation: stressing important information
11.Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect. Vocab: gerunds file, personal management
12.Reading: Gap year for adults. Functions: requests and offers, exchanging information. Pronunciation: contrastive stress. Techn. text: Electronic paper (mock exam)
13.Semester test
Work placements
Aims
- acquisition of new vocabulary
- developing grammar knowledge.
- developing the language skills (reading, speaking, listening and writing)
- introducing and revising common phrases of spoken English
- work with semi-technical texts
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Sada technických textů
Samostatná domácí příprava:www.feec.vutbr.cz/et
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme BTBIO-A Bachelor's
branch A-BTB , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective general
branch A-BTB , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective general
branch A-BTB , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective general - Programme EECC Bc. Bachelor's
branch B-SEE , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective general
branch B-SEE , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective general
branch B-SEE , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective general
branch B-TLI , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective general
branch B-TLI , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective general
branch B-TLI , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective general
branch B-EST , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective general
branch B-EST , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective general
branch B-EST , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective general
branch B-AMT , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective general
branch B-AMT , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective general
branch B-AMT , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective general
branch B-MET , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective general
branch B-MET , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective general
branch B-MET , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective general - Programme AUDIO-J Bachelor's
branch J-AUD , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective general
branch J-AUD , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective general
branch J-AUD , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective general - Programme IBEP-T Bachelor's
branch T-IBP , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective general
branch T-IBP , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective general
branch T-IBP , 3 year of study, summer semester, elective general - Programme EEKR-CZV lifelong learning
branch EE-FLE , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective general
Type of course unit
Language exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2.Reading: National branding. Functions: introductions and greetings, welcoming a visitor.
3.Past Simple and Pres. Perfect Simple review, used to + infinitive, subject and object questions. Vocab: work file, dictionary skills.
4.Reading: company and job profile. Functions: answering the phone, making and changing appointments. Pronunciation: /s/, /z/. Saying dates.
5.Comparative and superlative adjectives, relative clauses. Vocab: adjectives, personal attitudes and qualities. Techn. text: From dumb pipes to smart sensors
6.Reading: Past, present and future languages. Functions: giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing, participating in a meeting or discussion. Pronunciation: sounding polite
7.Present and past trends: Pres. Continuous and Past Simple, adjectives and adverbs. Vocab: food file, word groups.
8.Reading: ethical consumerism. Functions: advice and suggestions. Pronunciation: /š/, /č/ Techn. text: Data with a human touch
9.Passives: Pres. Simple, Pres. Continuous, Past Simple, Pres. Perfect Simple, Will future. Vocab: leisure and fitness activities, word combinations
10.Reading: Fit to work. Functions: leaving recorded messages, using mobile phones. Pronunciation: stressing important information
11.Past Simple, Past Continuous, Past Perfect. Vocab: gerunds file, personal management
12.Reading: Gap year for adults. Functions: requests and offers, exchanging information. Pronunciation: contrastive stress. Techn. text: Electronic paper (mock exam)
13.Semester test