Czech

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Institute of Social Sciences (SPV)

The aim of the BYA23 course is to increase lower advanced level students’ capabilities in English in all areas: grammar, vocabulary, speaking, listening, reading and writing, and this to lower advanced level B2 of the Common European Framework established by the Council of Europe. The BYA23 course follows on from the BYA22 course. Students will extend their language skills in all areas, including vocabulary and grammar knowledge.

Students need to have passed the BY51 exam in order to be able to enrol for this course. In other words, they are already able to do the following well:
- generally understand information about familiar topics and situations, such as those met at work, in school, in free time etc. providing they are expressed in a clear and straightforward manner,
- use English to communicate successfully in most situations encountered when travelling abroad,
- create a simple connected text with a simple context,
- describe experiences and events, ambitions, hopes and plans, and to briefly explain or justify their ideas and statements.

They also are recommended to have taken the following optional courses: BYA21 and BYA22.

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Vocabulary is practiced and knowledge extended in an interactive way, with the emphasis on conversation. Development and practice of communication and listening skills takes place using interactive audio-visual equipment, LMS Moodle and Smartboards.

In order to receive a credit for the course, students need to attend classes regularly (max. 3 absences per semester), do homework and actively participate in the lessons.

Week 1 – 3: Unit 5C – Health and medicine, gerunds/infinitives, similes
Week 3: Unit 6A – Travel experiences, future plans and arrangements
Week 4 – 5: Unit 6B – Animals, pets and pests, ellipsis, adverbs collocation
Week 6 - 7: Unit 6C – Living abroad and immigration, confusable words, cleft sentences
Week 8 – 9: Unit 7A – Preparing food, compound and possessive forms
Week 10: Unit 7B – Sport and working out, homographs, so and such
Week 11 – 12: Unit 7C – Humour and comparison
Week 13: Credit test, based on the materials covered in Units 5C – 7C

Not applicable.

The aim of the BYA23 course is to increase upper-intermediate level students’ capabilities in English in all areas: grammar, vocabulary, speaking, listening, reading and writing, and this to the B2 level of the CEF (Common European Framework) established by the Council of Europe. For a brief summary of what is involved in the B2 level of English see the Anotace.

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

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English File Advanced - Third Edition, Clive Oxenden, Christina Latham-Koenig and Jerry Lambert, Oxford University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-450237-5 (EN)

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26 hours, compulsory

1. File 5C Gerunds and infinitives; similes
2. File 5C Health and sickness vocabulary
3. File 6A Future plans
4. File 6A Travel and tourism
5. File 6B Ellipsis and substitution
6. File 6B The natural world - vocabulary
7. File 6C Cleft sentences; words often confused
8. File 7A Compound and possessive forms
9. File 7A Preparing food
10. File 7B Adjectives, nouns and verbs
11. File 7B So and such; problems with sport
12. File 7C Comparison; humor
13. Revision; test