Course detail

English Upper-Intermediate 4

FAST-VYA005Acad. year: 2020/2021

The BYA21 course is a UPPER-INTERMEDIATE LEVEL (B2) course which aims to improve students’ ability to:
- communicate fluently and spontaneously with native speakers, on a regular basis if necessary, in such a way that neither party has trouble making themselves clear or understanding the other,
- use the English language with a good degree of accuracy when dealing with familiar topics and using common grammatical forms,
- work with complex texts and generally understand the main points within.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Roger Turland, BA.

Department

Institute of Social Sciences (SPV)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The students will improve their knowledge of English at lower advanced level in all areas: grammar, vocabulary, speaking, listening, reading and writing, and this to the B2 level of the CEF (Common European Framework) established by the Council of Europe.

Prerequisites

Students need to have passed the BY002 (BY51) exam in order to be able to enrol for this course. In other words, they are already able to do the following well:
- 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,
- use English to communicate successfully in most situations encountered when travelling abroad,
- create a simple connected text with a simple context,
- describe experiences and events, ambitions, hopes and plans, and to briefly explain or justify their ideas and statements.

They also are recommended to have taken the following optional courses: BYA7, BYA8 and BYA20.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of the BYA21 course is to increase upper-intermediate level students’ capabilities in English in all areas: grammar, vocabulary, speaking, listening, reading and writing, and this to the B2 level of the CEF (Common European Framework) established by the Council of Europe.

For a brief summary of what is involved in the B2 level of English see the Anotace

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

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B_A+U Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Roger Turland, BA.

Syllabus

Wk 1 7A: General knowledge and learning motivation; prefixes Wk2 7A: Modal verbs (permission, obligation and necessity) Wk 3 7B: Verbs of the senses; colours and art Wk 4 7B: Stress on important words; the oral part of the B2 level exam Wk 5 8A: Medical situations and alternative medicine; similes Wk6 8A: Gerunds and infinitives (complex look) Wk 7 8B: Travel and tourism; homophones Wk8 8B: Expressing future plans and arrangements (complex look) Wk 9 9A: Giving opinions with adverbs; animals and nature Wk10 9A: Ellipsis and substitution Wk 11 9B: Nouns (compound and possessive forms); food and cooking Wk 12 10A: Adding emphasis (cleft sentences); words often confused; emigration Week 13: Revision/catching up/test