Course details

Headway Pre-Intermediate 1

BAN1 Acad. year 2013/2014 Winter semester 3 credits

Current academic year

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

Guarantor

Baumgartnerová Alena, PaedDr. (UJAZ)

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Completion

Credit+Examination

Time span

  • 26 hrs exercises

Department

Department of Foreign Languages (UJAZ)

Subject specific learning outcomes and competences

The students will master the basic grammatical structures and new vocabulary, communication in everyday situations and basic writing will be practised and developed, will learn basic skills for specialized text reading comprehension, will acquire basic specialized terminology.

Learning objectives

The course for lower intermediate students is aimed at learning basic vocabulary grammar developing the four language skills, reading, writing, speaking and listening. The students will learn basic technical terminology.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Successful passing of beginner English, e.g. on a secondary school or at the FEEC of the BUT or to acquire the minimum 10 - 20 points in the entrance test.

Syllabus of seminars

1. Introduction to the course; Unit 1 - grammar 2. Unit 1 3. Unit 2 4. Unit 2 5. Unit 3 6. Unit 3 7. Unit 4 8. Unit 4 9. Unit 5 10. Unit 5 11. Unit 6 12. Unit 6 13. Credit test

Syllabus of numerical exercises

  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.

Progress assessment

Credit - semester test: 40p. Examination - listening comprehension: 30p. - specific reading comprehension: 30p. The content of all parts corresponds with material dealt with during the semester.

Teaching methods and criteria

The course uses teaching methods in form of Exercise - 2 teaching hours per week.

Controlled instruction

Seminar attendance of 75%

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