Course details
Headway Pre-Intermediate 2
BAN2 Acad. year 2014/2015 Summer semester 3 credits
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 writing of letters, CV and filling in forms. The students will work with technical texts to get acquainted with basic technical terminology.
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- 26 hrs exercises
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Subject specific learning outcomes and competences
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. - use a specific and general vocabulary (job/career, business, character traits, graph description, food, leisure time) - apply grammar rules to common situations (present tenses, past tenses, the present perfect tense, the future tense, making questions, making comparatives and superlatives) - communicate fluently and effectively in different contexts with certain error tolerance (job/career, travelling, business, sports, hobbies, social situations) and express his/her opinion, agreement, disagreement - read technical and general articles when using basic reading techniques (skimming, scanning, selection of relevant information, accurate comprehension) - understand English instructions and classes taught in English, and take notes; understand natural spoken English in a certain context - write a formal letter or an informal e-mail, fill in an application form, describe a person and a place
Learning objectives
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 basic technical terminology.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
To pass the BAN1 course or to acquire "21 - 30" points in minimum in the entrance test (instruction is in Czech only).
Fundamental literature
- Liz Taylor:International Express Pre-Intermediate. New edition. Student's Book.Units 7-12.
- Samostatná domácí příprava:materiály v IS
- Soubor technických odborných textů:materiály v IS
Syllabus of seminars
- Unit 7: Present Perfect Simple in contrast with Past Simple. Agreeing and disagreeing.
- Unit 7: Present Perfect Simple - practice. Description of graphs. Characteristics of companies.
- Unit 8: Modal verbs, explanation and basic practice. Word formation and work with a dictionary.
- Unit 8: Modal verbs, practice. Nationalities and different cultures. Reactions to invitations.
- Review: Units 5 - 8.
- Unit 9: Present Perfect Simple and Continuous. Word collocations. Offers and requests.
- Unit 10: Present Perfect and Continuous, practice. Future, revision. Asking for information.
- Unit 10: 1st Conditional. Prepositions of place. The age and population.
- Unit 11: 1st Conditional, practice. 2nd Conditional. Description of cities.
- Unit 11: 2nd Conditional, practice. Social responses.
- Unit 12: Passives: Present Simple, Past Simple, Present Perfect, Future. Word building.
- Unit 12: Passives, practice. Thanking for hospitality, saying goodbye. Review, summary.
- Semester test.
Progress assessment
A credit test - 40 points. Examination: listening - 30 points reading comprehension - 30 points
Teaching methods and criteria
Exercises promote the practical mastery of the subject presented in lectures or assigned for individual study with the active participation of students.
Controlled instruction
There is checked study.
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