Course detail

English Pre-Intermediate 1

FAST-VYA006Acad. year: 2026/2027

The course is intended to review and develop students´ language skills (listening, reading, writing and speaking) at the pre-intermediate level of general English.

Grammar: word order in questions, present simple and continuous, question words and adverbs, past simple and continuous, comparative and superlative adjectives, countable and uncountable nouns, indefinite pronouns, future forms, present perfect.


General Vocabulary: personal information, jobs, describing things and people, clothes, prepositions of place and time, travelling, paraphrasing, shopping, quantifiers.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Věra Batystová

Department

Institute of Social Sciences (SPV)

Entry knowledge

Grammar and general vocabulary knowledge at the pre-intermediate level.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The course is worth 2 credits. To get their credits ("zápočet"), students are required to participate actively in class (attendance) and complete the individual teacher´s assignments. 

Aims

Students will command basic general English vocabulary, elementary grammar rules and they will be able to communicate in everyday situations.The target level according to the CEFR is A2-.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

LATHAM-KOENIG, Christina, OXENDEN, Clive. LAMBERT, Jerry. English File Pre-Intermediate Fourth Edition - Student´s Book. Oxford UP, 2024. (EN)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

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

  • Programme BPC-SIS Bachelor's

    specialization SI , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme BKC-SIS Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Věra Batystová

Syllabus

  • 1. 1A word order in question // common verb phrases
  • 2. 1B present simple // describing people, personality adjectives
  • 3. 1C present continuous // clothes, prepositions of place
  • 4. 2A past simple // holidays
  • 5. 2B past continuous // prepositions on, in, at
  • 6. 3A be going to // at the airport
  • 7. 3B present continuous for future arrangements // verbs with prepositions
  • 8. 3C relative clauses // paraphrasing
  • 9. 4A present perfect // housework
  • 10. 4B present perfect or past simple // shopping
  • 11. 5A + 5B comparatives and superlatives // describing a town
  • 12. 4C + 5C something, anything...; quantifiers // adjectives –ed/-ing; health
  • 13. 6A + 6B will // opposite verbs