Course Details

English Pre-Intermediate 1

Academic Year 2023/24

BYA3 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Grammar: present simple, wh-questions, present simple or continuous, past simple, comparative and superlative adjectives, countable and uncountable nouns, some/any, a lot of/many/much, future forms.
General Vocabulary: personal information, jobs, exchanging information, describing things and persons, question formation, word formation (prefixes, suffixes), writing an email, interview, filling a form, storytelling, time expressions, dicussion, expressing feelings, culture in the city.

Course Guarantor

Institute

Objective

Students will command basic vocabulary from general English, basic grammar rules, they will be able to communicate in everyday situations, to write both formal and informal letter, fill in a form.
The target level according to the CEFR is A2-.

Knowledge

Students will command basic vocabulary from general English, basic grammar rules, they will be able to communicate in everyday situations, to write both formal and informal letter, fill in a form.
The target level according to the CEFR is A2-.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of grammar rules and basic vocabulary at the pre-intermediate level.

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

0 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences

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

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. 1A word order in question // common verb phrases, spelling, numbers 2. 1B present simple // describing people, personality adjectives 3. 1C present continuous // clothes, preposition of place 4. 2A past simple regular and irregular // holidays 5. 2B past continuous // preposition of time and place 6. 3A going to // airports 7. 3B present continuous (arrangements) // verbs+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 // time expressions; describing a town 12. 4C+5C something, anything...; quantifiers // adjectives –ed/-ing; health 13. 6A+6B will // opposite verbs