Course details

Headway Pre-Intermediate 2

BAN2 Acad. year 2009/2010 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, 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.

Guarantor

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Completion

Credit+Examination

Time span

  • 26 hrs exercises

Department

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.

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.

Recommended prerequisites

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

To reach 21 - 30 points in the entrance test.

Syllabus of seminars

1.Unit 7: Present Perfect Simple in contrast with Past Simple. Agreeing and disagreeing. 2. Unit 7: Present Perfect Simple - practice. Description of graphs. Characteristics of companies. 3. Unit 8: Modal verbs - explanation and basic practice. Word formation and work with a dictionary. 4. Unit 8: Modal verbs - practice. Nationalities and different cultures. Reactions to invitations. 5. Review Unit B: units 5-8. 6. Unit 9: Present Perfect Simple and Continuous. Word collocations. Offers and requests. 7. Unit 10: Present Perfect and Continuous - practice. Future - revision. Asking for information. 8. Unit 10: 1st Conditional. Prepositions of place. The age and population. 9. Unit 11: 1st Conditional - practice. 2nd Conditional. Description of cities. 10. Unit 11: 2nd Conditional - practice. Social responses. 11. Unit 12: Passives: Present Simple, Past Simple, Present Perfect, Future. Word building. 12. Unit 12: Passives - practice. Thanking for hospitality, saying goodbye. Review Unit C: units 9-12. Summary. 13. Semester test.

Syllabus of numerical exercises

  1. Unit 7: Present Perfect Simple in contrast with Past Simple. Agreeing and disagreeing.
  2. Unit 7: Present Perfect Simple - practice. Description of graphs. Characteristics of companies.
  3. Unit 8: Modal verbs, explanation and basic practice. Word formation and work with a dictionary.
  4. Unit 8: Modal verbs, practice. Nationalities and different cultures. Reactions to invitations.
  5. Review: Units 5 - 8.
  6. Unit 9: Present Perfect Simple and Continuous. Word collocations. Offers and requests.
  7. Unit 10: Present Perfect and Continuous, practice. Future, revision. Asking for information.
  8. Unit 10: 1st Conditional. Prepositions of place. The age and population.
  9. Unit 11: 1st Conditional, practice. 2nd Conditional. Description of cities.
  10. Unit 11: 2nd Conditional, practice. Social responses.
  11. Unit 12: Passives: Present Simple, Past Simple, Present Perfect, Future. Word building.
  12. Unit 12: Passives, practice. Thanking for hospitality, saying goodbye. Review, summary.
  13. Semester test.

Progress assessment

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

Teaching methods and criteria

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

Controlled instruction

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

Course inclusion in study plans

  • Programme IT-BC-3, field BIT, 2nd year of study, Compulsory-Elective
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