Course detail

Intermediate Level English (exam)

FAST-BY51Acad. year: 2015/2016

For this exam, the two optional subjects English Intermediate I and English Intermediate II as well as the bridging course PK3 are offered, in which students acquire the required knowledge and skills. The exam is based on the contents of the book New English File Intermediate, by Clive Oxenden and Christina Latham-Koenig, Oxford University Press 2006.
The BY51 exam is conducted orally with pairs of students and lasts up to 25 minutes. It may be shorter for students who have clearly not yet reached the correct level.
The exam tests speaking skills such as interaction, pronunciation and the ability to construct connected sentences to give information or opinions on a certain topic. It also tests listening and reading ability, as well as grammar and vocabulary.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Roger Turland, BA.

Department

Institute of Social Sciences (SPV)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The student who has passed the BY51 exam will have demonstrated an intermediate level of English language ability as described by the B1 level of the CEF (Common European Framework) established by the Council of Europe.

Prerequisites

Entry level B1. Students 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, make 1st conditional structures, use countable/uncountable nouns and some modal verbs. They should also be able to manage simple functional transactions in shops, restaurants and while travelling. They should be able to use the present perfect to express experience, as well as describe long - lasting or temporary situations in their life; modals to express permission and obligation in connection with rules and behaviour; passives as typically used to describe processes, origins and materials; future forms to predict and plan actions in the future; conditionals to speculate about possible future situations and general theoretical ones.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Not applicable.

Course curriculum

To help students prepare for this exam the optional subjects English Intermediate I and English Intermediate II and the optional bridging course PK3 are offered by the Department of Languages.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of this exam is to assess if students have reached the B1 level of the CEF (Common European Framework) established by the Council of Europe. For a brief summary of what is involved in the B1 level of English see the Anotace.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

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

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

English File Intermediate - Third Edition, Clive Oxenden and Christina Latham-Koenig, Oxford University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-451989-2 (EN)

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

Intermediate Level English (exam)