Course detail

Headway Pre-Intermediate 1

FIT-BAN1Acad. year: 2025/2026

The course is focused on the basic knowledge of grammar: tenses, time and conditional clauses, infinitive, reported statements, articles, etc. The students' ability to communicate in everyday situations is developed as well as the writing of letters, CV and filling in forms. The students will work with technical texts to get acquainted with basic technical terminology.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Pavel Sedláček

Department

Department of Foreign Languages (UJAZ)

Entry knowledge

Successful passing of beginner English, e.g. on a secondary school or at the FEEC of the BUT or to acquire "11 - 20" points in the entrance test (instruction is in Czech only).

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Credit test: 24 - 40 points.

Examination:  

  • listening comprehension: 15 - 30 points,
  • reading comprehension: 15 - 30 points.

75% attendance, fulfilling the tasks.

Aims

The course for lower intermediate students is aimed at learning basic vocabulary and grammar and at developing the four language skills, reading, writing, speaking and listening. The students will learn the basic technical terminology.
The students' ability to communicate in everyday situations will be developed. They will master the basic grammatical structures and new vocabulary, both general and technical.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

K.Harding and R.Appleby: International Express Pre-Intermediate. Third edition. Student´s book.OUP 2014 (EN)

Recommended reading

Murphy, R.: Essential Grammar in Use. With answers. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BIT Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme BIT Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Fundamentals seminar

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Pavel Sedláček

Syllabus

  1. Unit 1: First meetings. Tenses, parts of speech, questions and social expressions.
  2. Unit 2: The world of work. Present tenses-simple and continuous. Verb groups. Making contact.
  3. Unit 2: Finishing-collocation, describing a company.
    Unit 3: Challenges. Past tense-explanation and exercises.
  4. Unit 3: Finishing-past simple and past continuous, nouns, verbs and adjectives, making negatives, making connections. Sports and leisure file.
  5. Unit 4: Plans and arrangements. Expressing future - exercises. Hotel file.
  6. Unit 4: Finishing-words and symbols. Emails faxes and letters. Staying at a hotel. Units 1-4 revision.
  7. Review Unit A: Units 1-4 revision. 
  8. Unit 5: How healthy is your lifestyle? Mass and count nouns, expressing quantity. Food file.
  9. Unit 5: Word groups. Living in different environment-comparison of lifestyles. At a restaurant.
  10. Unit 6: Flying gets cheaper. Comparative and superlative adjectives, synonyms and antonyms. Travelling.
  11. Unit 6: Word groups, air travel file. Transformations.
  12. Unit 6: Finishing-making arrangements. General revision.
  13. Semester test.