English for Bachelors - Intermediate 2

• 26 hrs exercises

• 60 pts final exam
• 40 pts mid-term test

Students will be able to:

• Use a wide range of vocabulary
• Apply newly acquired knowledge of grammar
• Understand, analyze, translate, paraphrase texts
• Understand, analyze, translate, paraphrase listenings
• Understand, follow and actively participate in simple conversations

The course provides students not only with knowledge of general English, but also  with the vocabulary, grammar, and functions necessary to become operational in professional and social situations.

The course enables students to acquire professional vocabulary, language functions and language skills necessary for active participation in seminars, lectures and other activities in the information and communication technology sector.

• New Headway Intermediate 1 (BAN3)

To pass the BAN3 course or to acquire at least 41 points the entrance language test (instruction is in Czech only).

Recommended prerequisite: New Headway Intermediate 1

• K. Harding and A. Lane - International Express Intermediate, 3rd Edition, Student´s Book OUP, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014. -- 167 s.

1. Introduction, Revision
2. Past sp., past cont., Past perf.
3. Giving presentations, describing problems and finding solutions
4. Conditionals: Zero, 1st and 2nd
5. Money and finance, emails, discussing and reaching agreements
6. Passives: Present sp., present cont. present perf sp., past sp., will
7. Product journey vocab., Time management, Checking  to understand and clarifying
8. Relative clauses
9. Job interviews, describing personal qualities at work, changing plans
10. 3rd Conditional, should have/shouldn´t have
11. Gerund VS. Infinitive, Changing careers, teleconferencing
12. Technical text, revision
13. Semester test

The course takes over 13 weeks in the form of language exercises. Attendance at seminars is compulsory (75 %). Absence must be properly apologized.

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.

Final exam:
30% - reading - evaluates and assesses the abilities to work with a written text, abilities to analyze, synthesize, paraphrase, organize and reproduce information from the text.
30% - listening - evaluates and assesses the abilities to understand spoken English, abilities to analyze, synthesize, paraphrase, organize and reproduce information from the listening. 

75% attendance and active participation at classes, fulfilment of given assignments.<br>
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40% - semester test - evaluates the level of knowledge one has acquired during the semester.