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Course, academic year 2026/2027
  
   
Preparation for B2 First I - V834056
Title: Příprava na B2 First I
Form of teaching: practicals
Guaranteed by: Department of Languages (834)
Faculty: Central University Departments of UCT Prague
Actual: from 2026
Duration in semesters: 1
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 / 12 (unknown)
Maximum number of enrolled students: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Repeated enrollment: - / - / - / 9
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Krtičková Chýlová Petra Mgr.
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
The subject is focused on improving and developing language and communication skills in general English, particularly on specific features of the international language examination. Topics include habitual behaviour, lifestyle, music, sport, technology, films, the world of work, obligation, relationships. The final level of proficiency is B2 according to CERF (Common European Reference Framework).
Last update: Krtičková Chýlová Petra (09.07.2026)
Literature -

Obligatory:

  • Norris, Roy, Holmes, Lucy, Mansur, Ethan. Ready for B2 First Student's book Fourth edition. : Macmillan education, 2020, s. ISBN 978-1-380-05228-5.
  • Lucy Holmes. Ready for B2 First Workbook Fourth edition. : Macmillan education, 2021, s. ISBN 978-1-380-05231-5.

Recommended:

  • Harrison, Mark. FCE testbuilder, [tests that teach : with key]. Oxford: Macmillan, 2010, 176 s. s. ISBN 978-0-230-72786-1.
  • Harrison, Mark. Use of English. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Pres, 2008, 222 s. s. ISBN 978-0-19-452825-2.

Last update: Krtičková Chýlová Petra (09.07.2026)
Teaching methods -

Seminar.

Last update: Krtičková Chýlová Petra (09.07.2026)
Syllabus -

1. Habitual behaviour – Be used to, get used to and used to

2. Lifestyle – Clothes – Get

3. High energy – Gerunds and infinitives

4. Music – Sport – Affixes

5. A change for the better? – Comparisons – Articles

6. Technology – Expressions with as ... as – Nouns

7. A good story – So and Such – Past tenses and time linkers

8. Films – Take – Participle adjectives and adverbs

9. Doing what you have to – Obligation, necessity and permission

10. The world of work – en- prefix and -en suffix – Connected speech

11. Relative relationships – Defining relative clauses

12. Non-defining relative clauses – Causative passive with have and get

13. Relationships - Describing people – Consonant-vowel linking

14. Revision

Last update: Krtičková Chýlová Petra (09.07.2026)
Learning resources -

Materials prepared and/or recommended by the teacher.

Last update: Krtičková Chýlová Petra (09.07.2026)
Learning outcomes -

Students will be able to:

• understand and interpret authentic texts (newspaper articles, extracts from literature) and listening materials

• make arguments in a discussion using all acquired language skills

• use proper and precise vocabulary

• write an essay, a report, formal and informal letters

• understand listenings from all common situations

Last update: Krtičková Chýlová Petra (09.07.2026)
Entry requirements -

Knowledge at B2 level according to CERF ( Common European Reference Framework).

Last update: Krtičková Chýlová Petra (09.07.2026)
Registration requirements -

No study prerequisites.

Last update: Krtičková Chýlová Petra (09.07.2026)
 
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