Course Details
English Pre-Intermediate 2
Academic Year 2025/26
VYA007 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Grammar: verb patterns, the 1st and 2nd conditionals for possible/theoretical situations, modal verbs for obligation and permission, passive forms of the present, past and present perfect simple tenses
Topics for conversation and vocabulary: pharmacy, making arrangements, animals, education, cinema, free time, solving problems, health and lifestyle.
Topics for conversation and vocabulary: pharmacy, making arrangements, animals, education, cinema, free time, solving problems, health and lifestyle.
Credits
2 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
summer
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
Entry Knowledge
Students should have a pre-intermediate level of English. They should be able to use the past and present (including present perfect) tenses to talk about their lives, and some future forms to discuss plans. They should be able to ask questions, give personal information, understand clear English related to familiar subjects. They should also be able to compare things using adjectives, use countable/uncountable nouns and some modal verbs. They should also be able to manage simple functional transactions in shops, restaurants and while travelling.
Aims
To raise language ability to an intermediate level (A2). After completing the course, the students should be better able to express work and other experience, as well as describe long - lasting or temporary situations in their life continuing from the past to now; express permission and obligation in connection with rules and behaviour in the workplace and society.
The target level of English is A2 (according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)
Students will raise their language ability to an intermediate level (A2 - according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)
The target level of English is A2 (according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)
Students will raise their language ability to an intermediate level (A2 - according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)
Basic Literature
OXENDEN, Clive a LATHAM-KOENIG, Christina: English File Pre-Intermediate Third Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-459843-9. (en)
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. 6C review of verb forms: present, past, future; adjectives+preposition
- 2. 7A infinitive with to; verbs
- 3. 7B gerund; verbs + gerund
- 4. 7C have to, don’t have to, must; modifiers
- 5. 8A should (+8C); get
- 6. 8B first conditional; confusing verbs
- 7. 9A second conditional; animals
- 8. 9B present perfect, for/since; words related to fear
- 9. 9C present perfect or past simple; biographies
- 10. 10A passive; verbs
- 11. 10B used to + 10C might; school subject; noun formation
- 12. 11A movement + 11B phrasal verbs; sports
- 13. 12C questions without auxiliaries; revision