Students will consolidate general vocabulary and grammar structures for everyday communication at B1 level. A student who successfully completes the A4K course understands the main ideas of comprehensible input on topics that he/she regularly encounters in everyday situations, in the workplace, while studying or visiting places where English is used as the main language of communication. They can engage in conversation, describe facts, events and goals, and can briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans. 

Course is intended for students within the combined study programmes who are familiar with the language at the pre-intermediate level (A2+) as minimum. It follows up on vocabulary and grammar learnt in course A3K.

To complete the course successfully it is necessary, apart from active participation in the class and individual home preparation, to achieve a mark of 60% or higher in the credit test. The credit test is focused on testing grammar and vocabulary. In case of failure, there is a possibility for the student to resit the test. The exam has a written and an oral part and tests the knowledge of General English at B1 level. The written part tests the knowledge of grammar and vocabulary, while the oral part tests the ability to engage in conversation spontaneously without prior preparation. It also assesses fluency of speech, pronunciation and the ability to use grammar and vocabulary covered in the compulsory literature. The student is required to score at least 50% in both parts of the exam.

The aim of the course is to equip students for real-life tasks and everyday communication. It is intended to consolidate the knowledge obtained at secondary school and practise all four language skills.

• compulsory co-requisite
  • English 3 for Combined Type of Study

1. Self-study plan. U5 self-study: Technology, information. Comparatives and superlatives. Question tags.
2. U5 self-study: Polite requests. Present and answer questions on your area of expertise. Explain and solve problems.
3. U5 self-study: Talk about inventions. Advantages/disadvantages.
4. U6 self-study: Real conditionals. Hypothetical conditional: present/future. Giving news.
5 U6 self-study: -ing/-ed adjectives. Verb-noun collocations. Life events.
6. U6 self-study: Talk about emotions, discuss what you would do in different situations.
7. U7 self-study: Success. Verb phrases. Present perfect simple versus continuous.
8. U7 self-study: Present and past ability. Qualifications.
9. U7 self-study: Give/clarify opinions. Describe an achievement.
10. U8 self-study: Communities, social situations.
11. U8 self-study: Articles and quantifiers. Relative clauses.
12. U8 self-study: Internet, real-world/online activities.
13. Credit test.