Course detail
First Certificate Level English IV
FAST-BYA23Acad. year: 2024/2025
The BYA22 course, is a ADVANCED (B2-C1) LEVEL course which aims to improve students’ ability to:
- communicate fluently and spontaneously with native speakers, on a regular basis if necessary, in such a way that neither party has trouble making themselves clear or understanding the other
Language of instruction
Czech
Mode of study
Not applicable.
Guarantor
Department
Institute of Social Sciences (SPV)
Entry knowledge
Students need to have passed the BY002(BY51) exam in order to be able to enrol for this course. In other words, they are already able to do the following well:
- generally understand information about familiar topics and situations, such as those met at work, in school, in free time etc. providing they are expressed in a clear and straightforward manner,
- use English to communicate successfully in most situations encountered when travelling abroad,
- create a simple connected text with a simple context,
- describe experiences and events, ambitions, hopes and plans, and to briefly explain or justify their ideas and statements.
They also are recommended to have taken the following optional courses: BYA21 and BYA22.
- generally understand information about familiar topics and situations, such as those met at work, in school, in free time etc. providing they are expressed in a clear and straightforward manner,
- use English to communicate successfully in most situations encountered when travelling abroad,
- create a simple connected text with a simple context,
- describe experiences and events, ambitions, hopes and plans, and to briefly explain or justify their ideas and statements.
They also are recommended to have taken the following optional courses: BYA21 and BYA22.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Aims
The aim of the BYA23 course is to increase upper-intermediate level students’ capabilities in English in all areas: grammar, vocabulary, speaking, listening, reading and writing, and this to the B2 level of the CEF (Common European Framework) established by the Council of Europe. For a brief summary of what is involved in the B2 level of English see the Anotace.
The students will improve their knowledge of English at lower advanced level in all areas: grammar, vocabulary, speaking, listening, reading and writing, and this to the B2 level of the CEF (Common European Framework) established by the Council of Europe.
The students will improve their knowledge of English at lower advanced level in all areas: grammar, vocabulary, speaking, listening, reading and writing, and this to the B2 level of the CEF (Common European Framework) established by the Council of Europe.
Study aids
Not applicable.
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable.
Basic literature
English File Advanced - Third Edition, Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig and Jerry Lambert, Oxford University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-450237-5 (EN)
Recommended reading
Not applicable.
Type of course unit
Exercise
26 hod., compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
The course is no longer offered.