Czech

Institute of Social Sciences (SPV)

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Students should be able to: use the past and present (including present and past perfect) tenses and reported speech to talk about events in their lives, experience and opinions; use future forms to discuss plans and make appointments, predictions; compare things using adjectives, adverbs and quantifiers, articles and countable/uncountable nouns; use modals to express permission, recommendation and obligation; passives for processes, origins and materials; conditionals to speculate about possible future situations, current and past theoretical ones; discuss relationships and other aspects of daily life like tourism, traffic, sport, culture; ask questions, give personal information: deal with situations in shops, restaurants and while travelling abroad, such as making arrangements, complaints, apologising, requesting, asking permission.

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This schedule is dependant on the speed at which material is covered in the class; it may not be possible to cover all of what is written below.
1.1A phrasal verbs, topic: names, national stereotypes
2. 1B subject/object/indirect questions, agreeing/disagreeing, topic: the media
3. 1C adverbs, topic:jokes
4. 2A zero, 1st and 2nd conditionals, giving your opinion, topic: health and medicine
5. 2B future continuous/perfect, topic: the future, time
6. 2C adjectives+prepositions, (be/get) used to, topics: addictions, perfectionism
7. 3A Narrative tenses, including past perfect, topic: stories
8. 3B 3rd conditional, strong adjectives, topic: surviving hostile conditions
9.3C modals of deduction, topic: history, Henry 8th and his wives
10. 4A adjectives, topic: history of dangerous fashions
11. 4B wishes and regrets, topic: men and women
12. Revision/catching up
13. written test (not for 2Eng1 and 3Eng1 students)

During the exam period there will be speaking tests for all students.

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The aim of this course is to further revise and develop students ability to: use phrasal verbs, adverbs, advanced future forms, narrative tenses; ask indirect questions for politeness; discuss theoretical possibilities in the present, future and past; express obligation or deduction of information; describe and compare.
Vocabulary will be expanded on the topics of music, humour, health and medicine, time, addiction, history and politics, the media, names, perfectionism, the future, survival and danger, clothes, men and women.

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

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Clive Oxenden and Christina Latham-Koenig: English File Upper-Intermediate. Oxford University Press 2001

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26 hours, compulsory