Course detail

Headway Pre-Intermediate 2

FIT-BAN2Acad. 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

To pass the BAN1 course or to acquire "21 - 30" points in the entrance language test (instruction is in Czech only).  

Recommended prerequisite: Headway Pre-Intermediate 1

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Teaching methods include language seminars and homework. Students have to actively participate inclasses.Compulsory seminar are held every week and students are obliged to fulfill achievements as part of theirhomestudy.

Aims

The course for lower intermediate students (BAN2) 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

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, 2010. (EN)

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.   Units 1+2: tense revision;jobs,slovesa: make,do,have;parts of an e-mail.

2.   Units 3+4: past tense, passive;telephoning;asking for and giving advice,describing people and objects.

3.   Unit 5: Nouns - countability,quantity;presentations - basic staging;requests.

4.   Unit 6: Adjectives - comparison;telephoning - answering the phone.

5.   Unit 7: Present pefect; changes and trends.

6.   Unit 7: Presentations and job interviews.

7.   Unit 8: Modals;meetings;invitations and offers.

8.   Unit 9: POast simple and continuous;vocabulary - travelling.

9.   Unit 9: Workskills - e-mails:problems and solutions;making suggestions.

10. Unit 10: Conditional;gerundium and infinitive.

11. Unit 10: Telephoning - checking details;asking for information with indirect questions.

12. Final revision.

13. Credit test.