Headway Pre-Intermediate 1

• 26 hrs exercises

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.