Course detail

Headway Pre-Intermediate 1

FIT-BAN1Acad. year: 2013/2014

The course is focused on the basic knowledge of grammar: tenses, time and conditional clauses, infinitive, reported statements, articles. The students' ability to communicate in everyday situations is developed as well as writing of letters, CV and filling in forms. The students will work with technical texts to get acquainted with basic technical terminology.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Guarantor

PaedDr. Alena Baumgartnerová

Department

Department of Foreign Languages (UJAZ)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The students will master the basic grammatical structures and new vocabulary, communication in everyday situations and basic writing will be practised and developed, will learn basic skills for specialized text reading comprehension, will acquire basic specialized terminology.

Prerequisites

Successful passing of beginner English, e.g. on a secondary school or at the FEEC of the BUT or to acquire the minimum 10 - 20 points in the entrance test.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course uses teaching methods in form of Exercise - 2 teaching hours per week.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Credit - semester test: 40p. Examination - listening comprehension: 30p. - specific reading comprehension: 30p. The content of all parts corresponds with material dealt with during the semester.

Course curriculum

1. Introduction to the course; Unit 1 - grammar 2. Unit 1 3. Unit 2 4. Unit 2 5. Unit 3 6. Unit 3 7. Unit 4 8. Unit 4 9. Unit 5 10. Unit 5 11. Unit 6 12. Unit 6 13. Credit test

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The course for lower intermediate students is aimed at learning basic vocabulary grammar developing the four language skills, reading, writing, speaking and listening. The students will learn basic technical terminology.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Seminar attendance of 75%

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Fundamentals seminar

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

PaedDr. Alena Baumgartnerová

Syllabus

  1. Unit 1: First meetings. Tenses, parts of speech, questions and social expressions.
  2. Unit 2: The world of work. Present tenses-simple and continuous. Verb groups. Making contact.
  3. Unit 2: Finishing-collocation, describing a company.
    Unit 3: Challenges. Past tense-explanation and exercises.
  4. Unit 3: Finishing-past simple and past continuous, nouns, verbs and adjectives, making negatives, making connections. Sports and leisure file.
  5. Unit 4: Plans and arrangements. Expressing future - exercises. Hotel file.
  6. Unit 4: Finishing-words and symbols. Emails faxes and letters. Staying at a hotel. Units 1-4 revision.
  7. Review Unit A: Units 1-4 revision. Mid-semester test.
  8. Unit 5: How healthy is your lifestyle? Mass and count nouns, expressing quantity. Food file.
  9. Unit 5: Word groups. Living in different environment-comparison of lifestyles. At a restaurant.
  10. Unit 6: Flying gets cheaper. Comparative and superlative adjectives, synonyms and antonyms. Travelling.
  11. Unit 6: Word groups, air travel file. Transformations.
  12. Unit 6: Finishing-making arrangements. General revision.
  13. Semester test.