Course detail

Enhanced English Skills

CESA-SEESAcad. year: 2025/2026

The course is intended to teach English for Specific Purposes. However, general English is also included.  Students will consolidate general vocabulary and grammar structures for the workplace at the intermediate level  (B2) and extend them in the context of academic topics.

Enhanced English Skills Course Syllabus

Introduction - study materials, learning strategies concerning foreign languages. studying at BUT

Topic 1: Education/Entrepreneurship - road to success (listening for contrasting ideas, critical thinking: ranking options, grammar: compound and complex sentences)

Topic 2: Science - laws of science (listening: making inferences, vocabulary: word forms, critical thinking: distinguishing between similar words, grammar: present perfect, present perfect continous)

Topic 3: Anthropology - accidental inventions and discoveries (listening for signal words and phrases, vocabulary: collocations with prepositions, grammar: indirect speech)

Topic 4: Engineering - consequences of progress/technology (listening for causes and effects, critical thinking: making appraisals, vocabulary: idioms, grammar: conditionals)

Topic 5: Evaluation, testing

 

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Olga Taušová, Ph.D.

Department

Centre of Sports Activities (CESA)

Entry knowledge

The course is intended for students who are familiar with the language at intermediate level. They are expected to have the knowledge and skills corresponding to the course English Skills. 

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

To pass this course it is necessary, apart from active participation in the class, face to face presentation and individual home preparation, to pass the final written exam test (at least 60%) and oral part. There is a possibility for the student to resit the test. Fill in quizzes and presentation, 60% pass mark.

Attendance at seminars is systematically checked by the teacher. Students are allowed to miss 2 seminars. As long as the number of missed seminars is higher, additional condition may be set up by the teacher in justified cases in order to meet the course requirements. 

Aims

The course will develop students' language skills they have acquired at secondary school, in the BUT course English Skills and extend them in the context of academic topics. Also dealt with is ESP. It is focused on practical, everyday communication for the international workplace. "intermediate" level

Students will consolidate general vocabulary and grammar structures for the workplace at the intermediate level  (B2) and extend them in the context of academic topics.

 

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

- (EN)
-BRIEGER, Nick a Alison POHL. Technical English Vocabulary and Grammar. Andover: Heinle, Cengage Learning, 2002. ISBN 978-1-902741-76-5. (EN)
R. Freire, T. Jones: Skills for Success 4, third edition Listening and Speaking, OUP 2019 (EN)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme SPC-STC Bachelor's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
    3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional