Course Details

English Upper-Intermediate 4

Academic Year 2024/25

VYA005 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Course Guarantor

Roger Turland, BA.

Institute

Institute of Social Sciences

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Credits

2 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

To offer to students of all faculties

Basic Literature

English File Advanced - Third Edition, Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig and Jerry Lambert, Oxford University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-450237-5 (en)

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/284831

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