Course detail

English Upper-Intermediate I

FAST-BYA7Acad. year: 2024/2025

Grammar: question formation, auxiliary verbs, comparative phrases, present perfect (simple and continuous), adjective order, narrative tenses.
Vocabulary: personal questions, health, illness and treatment, clothes and fashion, travelling, weather, feelings, adjectives, my university/faculty/campus, my study programme, e-mail communication with professors
Reading: civil engineering / architecture course at a university abroad
Writing: comparing your study in the Czech Republic and a study of architecture /civil engineering abroad

Language of instruction

Czech

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Marian Nevrlý

Department

Institute of Social Sciences (SPV)

Entry knowledge

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

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

Aims

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.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

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

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Marian Nevrlý

Syllabus

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