Course detail

English for Bachelors 2

FEKT-BKC-AN4Acad. year: 2024/2025

A standard course of English for intermediate students orientated on both general and technical English. An integrated approach is applied during teaching this course. After a grammar section with many tasks highlighting the new grammar, there is at least one activity for speaking, listening, reading and writing in every unit. There is a strong lexical component in the course. Technical texts are subject specific but the teacher's objective is teaching language, not subject knowledge.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Pavel Sedláček

Department

Department of Foreign Languages (UJAZ)

Entry knowledge

Knowledge of all language skills on at least A2 CEFR level is required prior enterring the course. For more detailed specifications please refer to Common European Framework of Refference for Languages (CEFR) and a compulsory entry test (AN0 course).

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

75% attendance and active participation at classes, fulfilment of given assignments.

40% - semester test - evaluates the level of knowledge one has acquiered during the semester
Final exam:
30% - reading - evaluates and asseses the abilities to work with a written text, abilities to analyze, synthetize, paraphrase, organize and reproduce information from the text
30% - listening - evaluates and asseses the abilities to understand spoken English, abilities to analyze, synthetize, paraphrase, organize and reproduce information from the listening

The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.

The course is not scheduled. 

Aims

The course provides students not only with knowledge of general English, but also with the vocabulary, grammar, and functions necessary to become operational in professional and social situations.
Students will be able to:
- Use a wide range of vocabulary
- Apply newly acquired knowledge of grammar
- Understand, analyze, translate, paraphrase texts
- Understand, analyze, translate, paraphrase listenings
- Understand, follow and actively participate in simple conversations

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Elektronické texty k předmětu.
K. Harding and A. Lane - International Express Intermediate, 3rd Edition, Student´s Book OUP

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BKC-EKT Bachelor's 0 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme BKC-MET Bachelor's 0 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme BKC-SEE Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme BKC-TLI Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Language exercise

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Pavel Sedláček

Syllabus

1. Modal verbs. Differences between British and American English.
2. Giving presentations. Reading: International Outsourcing.
3. Future arrangements and intentions. Collocations.
4. Present Continuous and 'going to'. Business communication.
5. Temporal clauses. Writing e-mails.
6. 1st and 2nd Conditionals. Phrasal verbs.
7. Present Perfect Simple and Present Perfect Continuous. Job descriptions.
8. Describing a process. Interviewing techniques.
9. 3rd Conditional. Confusing words.
10. Business correspondence. 'Should' + perfect infinitive.
11. Reported speech. Collocations.
12. Technical text. Social responses.
13. Semester test.