Course Details

English Pre-Intermediate 1

Academic Year 2025/26

VYA006 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.

Credits

2 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

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

Aims

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-.
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-.

Basic Literature

LATHAM-KOENIG, Christina, OXENDEN, Clive. English File Pre-Intermediate Third Edition - Student´s Book. Oxford UP, 2012.

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