Course Details
First Certificate Level English II
Academic Year 2023/24
BYA21 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
The content of the BYA20 course is aimed at students who would benefit from studying and practicing B2 (higher Upper-Intermediate level) English with a native speaker, i.e. students who: wish to study abroad (e.g. with the Erasmus+ programme) or work abroad; want to prepare for the BY003 B2 level language exam (useful for Erasmus+); already speak English at a good Intermediate level and would like to improve; already speak English at an Upper Intermediate or Advanced level and would like to practice their English so as not to forget what they learned in previous years.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
For a brief summary of what is involved in the B2 level of English see the Anotace
Knowledge
Prerequisites
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
0 credits
Semester
Forms and criteria of assessment
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
This course is no longer offered.
Wk 1 7A: General knowledge and learning motivation; prefixes Wk2 7A: Modal verbs (permission, obligation and necessity) Wk 3 7B: Verbs of the senses; colours and art Wk 4 7B: Stress on important words; the oral part of the B2 level exam Wk 5 8A: Medical situations and alternative medicine; similes Wk6 8A: Gerunds and infinitives (complex look) Wk 7 8B: Travel and tourism; homophones Wk8 8B: Expressing future plans and arrangements (complex look) Wk 9 9A: Giving opinions with adverbs; animals and nature Wk10 9A: Ellipsis and substitution Wk 11 9B: Nouns (compound and possessive forms); food and cooking Wk 12 10A: Adding emphasis (cleft sentences); words often confused; emigration Week 13: Revision/catching up/test