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
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
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
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
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
K. Harding and A. Lane - International Express Intermediate, 3rd Edition, Student´s Book OUP
Recommended reading
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Classification of course in study plans
- Programme BKC-EKT Bachelor's 0 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme BKC-MET Bachelor's 0 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme BKC-SEE Bachelor's 0 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme BKC-TLI Bachelor's 0 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Language exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
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.
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