Czech

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Institute of Social Sciences (SPV)

Students will improve their knowledge of grammar and vocabulary at Intermediate level and acquire reading, writing, listening and speaking skills required for the BY51 English exam which is an exam to assess the B1 level of the CEF (Common European Framework) established by the Council of Europe.

Students should be able to: use the past and present (including present perfect) tenses to talk about their lives, experience and opinions; use future forms to discuss plans and make appointments, predictions; compare things using adjectives, adverbs and quantifiers, articles and countable/uncountable nouns; use modals to express permission and obligation in connection with rules and behaviour; passives as typically used to describe processes, origins and materials; conditionals to speculate about possible future situations and general theoretical ones; discuss relationships, the family, flat-sharing, daily routines, food, sleep, education, work; ask questions, give personal information, understand clear English related to familiar subjects; manage functional transactions in shops, restaurants and while travelling abroad, such as attending language schools, checking information, apologising, requesting and asking permission.

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Requirements for successful completion of the subject are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

This timetable is only a very rough guideline.

Course book: New English File Intermediate, by C.Oxenden and C. Latham-Koenig, Oxford, used for the first semester (BYA5) and part of the second (BYA6).
Also used: sections from PET Masterclass, by A.Capel and R.Nixon, Oxford University Press.

It is important that students study 3 weeks of exam skills before they finish their course. Therefore, if the credit test is moved to week 12, they should start their exam practice in WEEK 9!

New English File Intermediate
(Plus extra PET Masterclass reading – must be done in class/at home!!)

Lessons 1 and 2
Unit 4B
+ Reading pt 1 p80 and p101 PET M.
+ Reading pt 5 p53

Lesson 3 and 4
Unit 6B
+ Reading pt 2 p34, then p48, then p79 PET M.
+ Reading pt 5 p72 PET M.

Lesson 5 and 6
Unit 6C + revise past perfect
+ Reading pt 3 p8, then p40, then p56, then p90

Lessons 7 and 8 – this may need to be cut to only one class if the course finishes in week 12. It is important that students get three weeks of exam preparation classes.
Unit 6A
+ Reading pt 4 p36, then p96, then p68
+ Reading pt 5 p95 PET M.

PET Masterclass – Exam practice activities

Lesson 9
Unit 5C
+ moodle course revision

PET Masterclass – Exam practice activities

Lesson 10
Listening pt 2 p92
Listening pt 3 p43
Listening pt 4 p14
Speaking pt 3 p54 and p77
Speaking pt 4 p73 and p62
Writing pt 1 p64 Grammar 1
Writing pt 3 – stories: p39, then p63, then p99 – write one of the three stories in class or at home

Lesson 11
Listening pt 1 p50
Listening pt 3 p58
Listening pt 4 p39
Speaking pt 2 p59
Speaking pt 3 and pt 4 p93
Writing pt1 p84 Grammar 1
Writing pt3 (letter) p95 write in class

Lesson 12
Listening pt 2 p74
Listening pt 4 p102
Practice speaking test – teacher’s materials Reading pt5 p85
Writing pt1 p104 Grammar 1
Catching up, revision etc.

Lesson 13 Test

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The aim of this course is to aid students in preparing for the BY51 English exam which is an exam to assess if Master’s students have reached the B1 level of the CEF (Common European Framework) established by the Council of Europe. For a brief summary of what is involved in the B1 level of English see the Anotace. BYA6 provides preparation for the exam by practicing exam task types in the areas of listening, speaking, writing, reading and grammar. It also covers elements of more advanced grammar to help students progress beyond what they have studied in BYA5, improve or revise their abilities in grammar and communicative skills, and build on their vocabulary.

The lessons in the first part of the BYA6 course will be similar in form to those for courses BYA1 – BYA5. The credit test at the end of the semester will also be similar to the BYA5 credit test, aimed at testing what students have learned during the course.

Target level according to the CEFR is B1.

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

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Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig: New English File Intermediate. Oxford: OUP, 2006. (EN)

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26 hours, obligation not entered