English - Pre-intermediate I - V834003
Title: English - Pre-intermediate I
Guaranteed by: Department of Languages (834)
Faculty: Central University Departments of UCT Prague
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:1
E-Credits: winter s.:1
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / 14 (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Krtičková Chýlová Petra Mgr.
Holanová Petra Mgr.
Examination dates   
Annotation -
The course is focused on developing the acquired knowledge necessary for basic communication in everyday life situations. The aim is to achieve A2+ level according to CERF (Common European Reference Framework).
Last update: Valentová Dana (05.05.2020)
Aim of the course -

Students will be able to:

  • express themselves in basic grammar tenses in spoken and written form
  • describe an event, retell a story
  • describe a person, a place; give a detailed description
  • have a discussion in a hotel and restaurant, express their demands, solve a problem
  • write a short informal and formal email or letter
Last update: Holanová Petra (26.06.2020)
Course completion requirements -

Active participation in seminars and passing the end-of-term credit test.

Last update: Holanová Petra (26.06.2020)
Literature -

R: Latham-Koenig Ch., Oxenden C., Lambert J., English File Pre-intermediate MultiPack A, Fourth Edition, Oxford University Press, 2019, 9780194037303

A: Murphy R., English Grammar in Use, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 9781108457651

A: Vince M., Intermediate Language Practice, Macmillan,2010, 9780230727014

Last update: Holanová Petra (26.06.2020)
Teaching methods -

Seminars

Last update: Holanová Petra (26.06.2020)
Syllabus -

1. Introduction; word order in questions; common verb phrases.

2. Describing people: appearance and personality; present simple.

3. Clothes; present continuous; prepositions of place; social English phrases: hotel reception.

4. Holidays; past simple and past continuous; regular and irregular verbs; prepositions of time and place.

5. Telling a story; time sequencers and connectors; verb phrases.

6. Travelling; expressing the future: plans, predictions, future arrangements; verbs + prepositions.

7. Expressions for paraphrasing; defining relative clauses; social English phrases: at the restaurant.

8. Housework and shopping; present perfect and past simple.

9. Adjectives ending –ed/–ing; indefinite pronouns: something, anything, nothing.

10. Describing a town or city; time expressions; comparative adjectives and adverbs; superlatives.

11. Health and the body; quantifiers; social English phrases: making a complaint.

12. Expressing the future: predictions, decisions, offers, promises; opposite verbs.

13. Review of verb forms: present, past, and future; modifiers.

14. General revision - grammar, vocabulary.

Last update: Holanová Petra (02.07.2020)
Learning resources -

Materials prepared and/or recommended by the teacher.

Last update: Holanová Petra (26.06.2020)
Registration requirements -

Knowledge at A2 level according to CERF (Common European Reference Framework).

Last update: Krtičková Chýlová Petra (27.08.2024)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Účast na seminářích 1 28
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