Course detail

English 1

FSI-A1Acad. year: 2025/2026

The course gives an overview of the English grammar corresponding to secondary school curriculum. It can be useful for students who need to revise the grammar skills needed in compulsory courses or for General English Exam.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Zuzana Wolná

Department

Institute of Foreign Languages (ÚJ)

Entry knowledge

Course is intended for students who need to revise secondary school English during their studies in compulsory courses or before the General English Exam.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Course-unit credit is conditioned by active work in the course by meeting specific requirements of the teacher.


Students' performance in the course is systematically checked by the teacher.

Aims

The aim of the course is to revise secondary school English grammar and help students feel more confident in compulsory courses.


Students will revise grammar for everyday communication at the A2-B1 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

SCRIVENER, Jim. Visual Grammar 2. Richmond: Richmond, 2014. ISBN 9788466815666.
SWAN, Michael. Practical English usage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN 0194311856.
ALEXANDER, L. G. Longman English grammar. London: Longman, 1991. ISBN 0582558921. (EN)
GREPL, Miroslav. Příruční mluvnice češtiny. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 1995. ISBN 80-7106-134-4.
MURPHY, Raymond. Essential grammar in use: a self-study reference and practice book for elementary students of English with answers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN 0521357705.
SCRIVENER, Jim. Visual Grammar 1. Richmond: Richmond, 2014. ISBN 9788466812283.

Recommended reading

Hollet, V. Tech Talk. Elementary. Student's Book. OUP 2003 (EN)
MURPHY, Raymond. Essential Grammar in Use. With Answers. A self-study reference and practice book for elementary students of English. 2nd ed. Cambridge: CUP, 2001. ISBN 0-521-55928-6 (EN)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-OBN-P Bachelor's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
  • Programme N-OBN-P Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Language exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Zuzana Wolná

Syllabus

- revision of English tenses

- present simple and adverbs of frequency, present continuous

- state and dynamic verbs

- questions, subject and object questions

- past simple and past continuous

- present perfect simple

- past perfect simple and narrative tenses

- the future  expressed by will, going to and present continuous

- the future expressed by might, may and could, the future in time clauses and in the first conditional

- modal verbs

- expression used to and a modal verb would in narration

- passive voice