Course detail

Headway Pre-Intermediate.

FEKT-MJH2Acad. year: 2010/2011

The course is focused on the basic knowledge of grammar - tenses, time and conditional clauses, infinitive, reported statements, articles, etc. The students´ ability to communicate in everyday situations is developed as well as writing of letters, CV and filling in forms. The students will work with technical texts to get acquainted with basic technical terminology.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Marie Žouželková Bartošová

Department

Department of Foreign Languages (UJAZ)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The students´ ability to communicate in everyday situations will be developed. They will master the basic grammatical structures and new vocabulary, both general and technical.

Prerequisites

The subject knowledge on the Bachelor´s degree level is requested.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Requirements for completion of a course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every.

Course curriculum

People and animals, present continuous
Life in cities, multi-word verbs
Lifestyles, present simple
School, have got, numbers and prices
Facts and fiction, past tense, irregular verbs
Stories, interviews, time expressions
Shopping, articles, expressions of quantity
Clothes, food, form, polite requests
Plans and ambitions, verb patterns, future tense
Description of people, adjectives, comparatives and superlatives
Description of places, synonyms
Biography, present perfect, adverbs
Semester test
Professions, have to, should
Travelling, nouns, make and do
Environment, conditional and time clauses
21 century, will
The past, used to
The role of women, question forms, question tags
Media, passive
Telephoning, word formation
Relationships, past perfect, indirect statements
Semester test

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The course for lower intermediate students is aimed at learning basic vocabulary and grammar and at developing the four language skills, reading, writing, speaking and listening. The students will learn basic technical terminology.

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

The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

John and Liz Soars: New Headway Pre-Intermediate, Student`s Book, Oxford University Press
UJAZ: Technické pracovní listy

Type of course unit

Language exercise

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Marie Žouželková Bartošová

Syllabus

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

Headway Pre-Intermediate.

Type of course unit