Course detail

English Upper-Intermediate 1

FAST-VYA010Acad. year: 2025/2026

Grammar: question formation, auxiliary verbs, comparative phrases, present perfect (simple and continuous), adjective order, narrative tenses.
Vocabulary: personal questions, health, illness and treatment, clothes and fashion, travelling, weather, feelings, adjectives, my university/faculty/campus, my study programme, e-mail communication with professors
Reading: civil engineering / architecture course at a university abroad
Writing: comparing your study in the Czech Republic and a study of architecture /civil engineering abroad

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Daniel Rodriguez

Department

Institute of Social Sciences (SPV)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Entry knowledge

Intermediate knowledge of English, B1 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

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

Aims

Students will extend their language skills and vocabulary and grammar knowledge beyond the level of Cambridge PET exam or B1 level of the CEF (Common European Framework) established by the Council of Europe.
The target level according to the CEFR is B1+.
Students will be able to speak about the following topics: personality, illness and treatment, clothes and fashion, air travel. They will also be proficient in the following grammar: question formation, auxiliary verbs, comparative phrases, present perfect (simple and continuous), adjective order and narrative tenses.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

LATHAM-KOENIG, Christina a Clive OXENDEN. English file: upper-intermediate. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, [2014]. ISBN 978-0-19-455864-8. (EN)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BPC-VP Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Daniel Rodriguez

Syllabus

  • Week 1: Introducing yourself; indirect questions for politeness
  • Week 2: My university and faculty, my study programme; talking about the semester, timetables and the exam period; getting around a campus
  • Week 3: Accidents and illnesses, first aid; present perfect simple for news, experience and achievements
  • Week 4: Clothes vocabulary and related idioms; present perfect simple and continuous
  • Week 5: Youth subcultures and clothes; adjective word order
  • Week 6: Air travel; adjectives as nouns in the context of stereotypes concerning nationalities and groups of people
  • Week 7: Narrative tenses, including past perfect simple and continuous
  • Week 8: Studying abroad; comparing study programmes and student life here and at a foreign university; my favourite course / the university where I would like to go on Erasmus
  • Week 9: The weather; predicting the future with the future continuous and future perfect
  • Week 10: Taking risks; feelings; real conditionals and time clauses
  • Week 11: The Erasmus+ application process; successful formal email communication with teachers
  • Week 12: Survival in dangerous situations; unreal, theoretical conditionals
  • Week 13: Revision and credit test