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Course, academic year 2024/2025
  
English - Intermediate II - V834006
Title: English - Intermediate II
Guaranteed by: Department of Languages (834)
Faculty: Central University Departments of UCT Prague
Actual: from 2024
Semester: summer
Points: summer s.:1
E-Credits: summer s.:1
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (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.
Interchangeability : N834021
Annotation -
The subject is focused on the development of the correct use of grammar and vocabulary, and the enhancement of oral interaction and writing. The topics include film, appearance, education, home, shopping, work, electronics and crime. The aim is to achieve B1/B1+ level according to CERF (Common European Reference Framework).
Last update: Valentová Dana (17.08.2020)
Aim of the course -

Students will be able to :

  • hold a conversation, discuss common topics without serious mistakes
  • express their own wishes, arguments, explain their opinion
  • write a film review, write an e-mail of complaint
  • present a product
Last update: Valentová Dana (17.08.2020)
Course completion requirements -

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

Last update: Valentová Dana (17.08.2020)
Literature -

R: Latham-Koenig Ch., Oxenden C., Lambert J., English File Intermediate MultiPack B, Fourth Edition, Oxford University Press, 2019, 9780194035750

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

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

Last update: Valentová Dana (02.07.2020)
Teaching methods -

Seminars.

Last update: Valentová Dana (17.08.2020)
Syllabus -

1. Behind the scenes; Passive (all tenses); Cinema, writing a film review.

2. Every picture tells a story; Modals of deduction: “might, can’t, must”; The body.

3. Live and learn; First conditional and future time clauses + “when, until, etc.”; Education.

4. The hotel of Mum and Dad; Second conditional; Houses; Sentence stress.

5. Choosing between conditionals; Organizing and processing opinions, agreements and disagreements.

6. The right job for you; Gerunds and infinitives.

7. Work; Word stress; Presenting a product.

8. Have a nice day! Reported speech: sentences and questions.

9. Shopping; Word formation: nouns from verbs; Complaining, writing an e-mail of complaint.

10. Lucky encounters! Third conditional; Word formation: adjectives and adverbs.

11. Digital detox; Quantifiers; Electronic devices; Linking.

12. Idols and icons; Relative clauses: defining and non-defining; Compound nouns.

13. And the murderer is…; Question tags; Crime; Intonation.

14. General revision – grammar, vocabulary.

Last update: Valentová Dana (17.08.2020)
Learning resources -

Materials prepared and/or recommended by the lecturer.

Last update: Valentová Dana (17.08.2020)
Registration requirements -

Knowledge at A2+/B1 level.

Last update: Valentová Dana (17.08.2020)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Účast na seminářích 1 28
1 / 1 28 / 28
 
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