Course Details

English Upper-Intermediate 4

Academic Year 2023/24

VYA005 course is part of 2 study plans

Elective Courses Summer Semester

Elective Courses Winter Semester

Grammar: prefixes, modal verbs (permission, obligation and necessity), verbs of the senses, stress on important words, similes, gerunds and infinitives (complex look), expressing future plans and arrangements (complex look), giving opinions with adverbs, ellipsis and substitution, nouns (compound and possessive forms), adding emphasis with cleft sentences. Vocabulary: general knowledge and learning motivation, colours and art, health, illness and alternative medicine, travel and tourism, animals and nature, food and cooking, words often confused, emigration. We will practice the oral part of the VYA013 B2 level exam.
The content of the VYA005 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 VYA013 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

The aim of the BYA21 course is to increase upper-intermediate level students’ capabilities in English in all areas: grammar, vocabulary, speaking, listening, reading and writing, and this to the B2 level of the CEF (Common European Framework) established by the Council of Europe.

For a brief summary of what is involved in the B2 level of English see the Anotace

Knowledge

The students will improve their knowledge of English at lower advanced level in all areas: grammar, vocabulary, speaking, listening, reading and writing, and this to the B2 level of the CEF (Common European Framework) established by the Council of Europe.

Prerequisites

Higher intermediate knowledge of English (B1+ level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for languages).

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Credits

2 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

To offer to students of all faculties

Course on BUT site

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

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