Course detail

Widening student's understanding of English and extending their abilities to use the language for communicative purposes.

Widened grammar skills up to present perfect
Vocabulary syllabus including dictionary training
All four skills in context
Everyday Enlish usage

The subject knowledge on the secondary school level is requested.

The English course for using English both accurately and fluently. Grammar and vocabulary are taught and explained thoroughly and all four language skills are developed systematically. It combines traditional methods of language teaching and more recent communicative approaches.

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

Examination.

1.Unit 1:First meetings.Tenses,parts of speech,questions and social expressions.
2.Unit 2:The world of work.Present tenses-simple and continuous.Verb groups.Making contact.
3.Unit 2:Finishing-collocation,describing a company.
Unit 3:Challenges.Past tense-explanation and exercises.
4.Unit 3:Finishing-past simple and past continuous,nouns,verbs and adjectives,making negatives,making connections.Sports and leisure file.
5.Unit 4:Plans and arrangements.Expressing future - exercises.Hotel file.
6.Unit 4:Finishing-words and symbols.Emails faxes and letters.Staying at a hotel.
Units 1-4 revision.
7.Review Unit A:Units 1-4 revision.Half-semester test.
8.Unit 5:How healthy is your lifestyle? Mass and count nouns,expressing quantity.Food file.
9.Unit 5:Word groups.Living in different environment-comparison of lifestyles.At a restaurant.
10.Unit 6:Flying gets cheaper.Comparative and superlative adjectives,synonyms and antonyms.Travelling.
11.Unit 6:Word groups,air travel file.Transformations.
12.Unit 6:Finishing-making arrangements.General revision.
13.Semester test.

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.

Essential Grammar in Use.With answers.R.Murphy.Cambridge University Press,1990.
Angličtina pro jazykové školy I Peprník,Zárubová,Nangonová.SPN Praha,1986.
Samostatná domácí příprava:www.feec.vutbr.cz/et
Liz Taylor:International Express Pre-Intermediate. New edition. Student's Book. Units 1 - 6
222 cvičení z anglické mluvnice.S klíčem.V.Juránková,E.Sládková.MC nakladatelství Brno,1993.
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