Course detail

English for Bachelors - Intermediate 2

FIT-BAN4Acad. year: 2023/2024

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

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Pavel Sedláček

Department

Department of Foreign Languages (UJAZ)

Entry knowledge

To pass the BAN3 course or to acquire at least 41 points the entrance language test (instruction is in Czech only).

Recommended prerequisite: New Headway Intermediate 1

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The course takes over 13 weeks in the form of language exercises. Attendance at seminars is compulsory (75 %). Absence must be properly apologized.

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.

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. 

Aims

The course provides students not only with knowledge of general English, but also  with the vocabulary, grammar, and functions necessary to become operational in professional and social situations.
Students will be able to:
  • 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

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

e-learning (Moodle) k předměru (CS)
K. Harding and A. Lane - International Express Intermediate, 3rd Edition, Student´s Book OUP, Oxford University Press, 2014 (EN)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BIT Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme BIT Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

  • Programme IT-BC-3 Bachelor's

    branch BIT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Language exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

PaedDr. Alena Baumgartnerová
Mgr. Agata Walek, Ph.D.
PhDr. Milan Smutný, Ph.D.
Mgr. Pavel Sedláček

Syllabus

  1. Introduction, Revision
  2. Past sp., past cont., Past perf.
  3. Giving presentations, describing problems and finding solutions
  4. Conditionals: Zero, 1st and 2nd
  5. Money and finance, emails, discussing and reaching agreements
  6. Passives: Present sp., present cont. present perf sp., past sp., will
  7. Product journey vocab., Time management, Checking  to understand and clarifying
  8. Relative clauses
  9. Job interviews, describing personal qualities at work, changing plans
  10. 3rd Conditional, should have/shouldn´t have
  11. Gerund VS. Infinitive, Changing careers, teleconferencing
  12. Technical text, revision
  13. Semester test