Course detail

Headway Pre-Intermediate 1

FIT-BAN1Acad. year: 2009/2010

The course is focused on the basic knowledge of grammatical tenses and structures. The students' ability to communicate in everyday situations is developed. 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. Šárka Rujbrová

Department

Department of Foreign Languages (UJAZ)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

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.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of English at elementary level or acquisition of at least 11 to 20 points in the entrance test.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Active 75% attendance at classes and continuous work on given assignments. Semester test. Examination.

Course curriculum

1. Unit 1: Present Simple. Frequency adverbs. 2. Unit 1: Organizing vocabulary - topic groups, verb groups etc. Introductions and greetings. 3. Unit 2: Present Continuous versus Present Simple. Work - verb groups. 4. Unit 2: Describing a company. Making contact. 5. Unit 3: Past Simple. Sports and leisure - verb groups. 6. Unit 3: Past Simple - finishing. Conversation topics. 7. Unit 4: Futures: going to+infinitive, Present Continuous. At a hotel. 8. Unit 4: Writing letters, emails, faxes. Staying at a hotel. 9. Unit 5: Mass and count nouns. Expressing quantity. 10. Unit 5: Food. At a restaurant. 11. Unit 6: Comparative and superlative adjectives. Air travel. 12. Unit 6: Making arrangements. Technical text. Revision. 13. Semester test.

Work placements

Not applicable.

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 basic technical terminology.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The contents and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme IT-BC-3 Bachelor's

    branch BIT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Fundamentals seminar

26 hod., optionally

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. Mid-semester test.
  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.