Course detail
New Headway Intermediate 2
FIT-BAN4Acad. year: 2019/2020
A standard course of English for intermediate students orientated on both general and technical English. An integrated approach is applied during teaching this course. After a grammar section with many tasks highlighting the new grammar, there is at least one activity for speaking, listening, reading and writing in every unit. There is a strong lexical component in the course. Technical texts are subject specific but the teacher's objective is teaching language, not subject knowledge.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
- Use a wide range of vocabulary
- Apply newly acquired knowledge of grammar
- Understand, analyze, translate, paraphrase texts
- Understand, analyze, translate, paraphrase listenings
- Understand, follow and actively participate in simple conversations
Prerequisites
- recommended prerequisite
- New Headway Intermediate 1
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Exam prerequisites:
75% attendance and active participation at classes, fulfilment of given assignments.
40% - semester test - evaluates the level of knowledge one has acquired during the semester.
Course curriculum
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Final exam:
30% - reading - evaluates and assesses the abilities to work with a written text, abilities to analyze, synthesize, paraphrase, organize and reproduce information from the text.
30% - listening - evaluates and assesses the abilities to understand spoken English, abilities to analyze, synthesize, paraphrase, organize and reproduce information from the listening.
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
- recommended prerequisite
New Headway Intermediate 1 - recommended prerequisite
New Headway Intermediate 1
Basic literature
Recommended reading
K. Harding and A. Lane - International Express Intermediate, 3rd Edition, Student´s Book OUP, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014. -- 167 s.
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Fundamentals seminar
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Introduction, Revision
- Past sp., past cont., Past perf.
- Giving presentations, describing problems and finding solutions
- Conditionals: Zero, 1st and 2nd
- Money and finance, emails, discussing and reaching agreements
- Passives: Present sp., present cont. present perf sp., past sp., will
- Product journey vocab., Time management, Checking to understand and clarifying
- Relative clauses
- Job interviews, describing personal qualities at work, changing plans
- 3rd Conditional, should have/shouldn´t have
- Gerund VS. Infinitive, Changing careers, teleconferencing
- Technical text, revision
- Semester test