Czech

Institute of Social Sciences (SPV)

Intermediate knowledge of English, B1 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference.

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Students will extend their language skills and vocabulary and grammar knowledge beyond the level of Cambridge PET exam or B1 level of the CEF (Common European Framework) established by the Council of Europe.
The target level according to the CEFR is B1+.
Students will be able to speak about the following topics: personality, illness and treatment, clothes and fashion, air travel. They will also be proficient in the following grammar: question formation, auxiliary verbs, comparative phrases, present perfect (simple and continuous), adjective order and narrative tenses.

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Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig: New English File Upper-Intermediate. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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26 hours, compulsory

Week 1: Introducing yourself; indirect questions; polite intonation Week 2: My university, faculty; getting around the campus; my study programme Week 3: Present perfect simple and continuous, illnesses and treatment Week 4: Health, insurance, first aid Week 5: Adjectives as nouns and their word order; clothes and fashion Week 6: Studying civil engineering/architecture at university abroad Week 7: Air travel; narrative tenses, past perfect simple and continuous; so/such…that Week 8: Future tenses, future perfect; climate, weather, expecting and predicting future Week 9: Writing: comparing your study in the Czech Republic and a study abroad; experience and expectations Week 10: Real and unreal conditionals; feelings, taking risks Week 11: How to address teachers at universities, e-mail communication and conversation with professors Week 12: Usage of the verb "wish", -ed, -ing adjectives Week 13: Revision and credit test